Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google’s hand. It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions of websites’ robots.txt files in an effort to force Google to change how it crawls them to fuel its AI…
Nikon Small World photomicrography contest is an annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative. A stunning image of a rice weevil on a single grain of rice has won the 2025 Nikon Small World photomicrography contest, yielding valuable insight into the structure and behavior of—and…
Risks to BIG-IP users include supply-chain attacks, credential loss, and vulnerability exploits. Thousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of being breached by a nation-state hacking group following the breach of a major maker of software, the federal government…
Tiny, fast model hits coding scores similar to GPT-5 and Sonnet 4. On Wednesday, Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, a small AI language model that reportedly delivers performance similar to what its frontier model Claude Sonnet 4 achieved five months ago but at one-third the cost and more than twice…
But they’re still unlikely to go on sale in the US. More than half of American car buyers would consider a Chinese car brand for their next purchase, an increase of almost 25 percent compared to last year. That’s according to a survey of prospective car buyers conducted annually…
Veo 3.1 is coming to the Gemini app and the Flow filmmaking tool. It’s getting harder to know what’s real on the Internet, and Google is not helping one bit with the announcement of Veo 3.1. The company’s new video model supposedly offers better audio and realism, along with…
Sam Altman claims new tools can detect mental distress while relaxing limits for adults. On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company will allow verified adult users to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT starting in December. The change represents a shift in how OpenAI approaches content restrictions,…
Leaks of the new tablet from a couple weeks ago appear to have been genuine. A couple of weeks ago, a YouTuber unboxed what appeared to be a refreshed iPad Pro in full retail packaging, suggesting it would be launching imminently. Today, Apple formally announced the new tablets, and…
A 27.5% increase in memory bandwidth provides a big boost to GPU performance. Apple often releases a smaller second wave of new products in October after the dust settles from its September iPhone announcement, and this year that wave revolves around its brand-new M5 chip. The first Mac to…
“Winning” means prioritizing independence from outside influence over being right. Why do some people endorse claims that can easily be disproved? It’s one thing to believe false information, but another to actively stick with something that’s obviously wrong. Our new research, published in the Journal of Social Psychology, suggests…
