cnet

2026-07-15

Don't Call It Book 4, but the Next Fourth Wing Book Has a Name and Release Date

The next book in the Fourth Wing series is an anthology, not a continuation of Violet's story. [...]

cnet

2026-07-15

You Can Extend Your Phone's Battery With a Few Settings and a Wallpaper Change

Don't expect miracles from this trick, but it could help you extend your phone's battery life just a little bit more. [...]

Destination

2026-07-15

VPN deal of the week: After a year of testing it, this is the VPN I'll be using to stream England vs Argentina

Make sure football comes home securely with this top VPN [...]

Destination

2026-07-15

Experts flag new scam targeting fans seeking tickets for Celine Dion concerts

Multiple scams targeting Celine Dion fans have already surfaced - it looks like this scam will go on (and on). [...]

Destination

2026-07-15

"Players using CryoTherm Palm felt 60% cooler, held 2.45% higher speeds and preserved sprint velocity 4.7% better" — I asked Therabody's Chief Science Officer how England's World Cup squad is using a new cooling device to combat heat and boost performanc

Therabody's Chief Science Officer tells us about the high-tech cooling gadgets his company supplied to England's World Cup squad — which work by cooling the user's palms. [...]

zdnet

2026-07-15

New Mac malware masquerades as Apple's crash reporter: 3 ways to dodge the threat

CrashStealer is now in the wild, targeting your data, passwords, and cryptocurrency. Here's everything you need to know about this new MacOS threat. [...]

Destination

2026-07-15

Apple is reportedly shopping for AI chip companies

Apple's current M2 Ultra-powered servers don't seem to be cutting it, so the company is shopping around for more power. [...]

Destination

2026-07-15

GPT-5.6 Sol reportedly disproves a 30-year-old statistics conjecture in 90 minutes after humans couldn't crack it

A University of Pennsylvania statistics professor used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro to disprove a central open conjecture about the Benjamini-Hochberg method in roughly 90 minutes. The predecessor model, GPT-5.5, couldn't find a solution even after 20 hours. The answer combines known methods in a new way, keeping the bigger question alive: can AI produce genuinely new knowledge, or does it j [...]

Destination

2026-07-15

‘A candidate who was hostile from day one never produces that baseline’: Nation states spies applying for legit jobs are hard to spot

Nation state spies are using AI to create fake identities and realistic job applications, infiltrating organizations to steal intelligence. [...]