2026-07-16

Germany puts Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity under media law in first-of-its-kind ruling

German media regulators say Google's AI Overviews are Google's own content, not neutral search results, and that they crowd out regular links. The regulators have issued their first rulings against Google and Perplexity under the country's State Media Treaty. Both companies have one month to appeal.<br /> The article Germany puts Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity under [...]

2026-07-16

Former PlayStation boss says Sony needs 'more games for more people' to justify a $1,000 PS6

Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden thinks studios need to start investing in unique games that entice a wider audience to justify the cost of next-gen. [...]

2026-07-16

Seagate IronWolf Pro and WD Red Pro NAS drives are all discounted — here's why I'd buy the most expensive model

Seagate and WD NAS drives are all on sale, but one surprising choice offers by far the best long-term value. [...]

2026-07-16

Russian hacker turns Gemini CLI into a hacking agent, creates small-scale botnet

The hacker told the AI he was an authorized pentester - and the AI believed him. [...]

2026-07-16

$100 billion will go to U.S. chip manufacturing in TSMC’s latest pledge

This latest investment seems to bring TSMC’s total pledges for U.S. chipmaking to $265 billion. [...]

2026-07-16

Satya Nadella makes the case for AI independence

The Microsoft CEO argues that businesses should control more of the data, models, and infrastructure that make AI useful. [...]

2026-07-16

The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway

Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their internal evaluations and then failed a customer in production; only one in twenty fully trusts automated evaluation today; and the most-cited weakness is that evaluations do not align with real-world outcome [...]

2026-07-16

OnePlus ends phone releases in US and Europe, further reducing smartphone choice

OnePlus promises to continue supporting the phones it's already released. [...]

2026-07-16

Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.

"We will likely have similar concerns and discussions when China fields its Starlink-like constellation." [...]