2026-07-28

Sega's Dreamcast retro console is still getting new games 25 years after it was abandoned

The retro console is still a favorite for gamers who appreciate simplicity of older tech but still want online play. [...]

2026-07-28

Nvidia launches Open Secure AI Alliance — but there's no room for OpenAI, Anthropic or Google

The Open Secure AI Alliance conceived to promote trust in the development and use of AI, but some companies are notable by their absence... [...]

2026-07-28

Anthropic says your leaked Claude chats are working as intended

Type the right query into Google over the weekend and you could read strangers’ conversations with Claude. Some held medical records. Some held company files and children’s phone numbers. The chats were not hacked or leaked in any technical sense. Users had shared them through a Claude feature built for that. Search engines then indexed […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-28

Starbucks’ AI tool didn’t die in a pilot. It died in 11,300 stores.

Starbucks told NomadGo on 3 April that it was scrapping the AI inventory tool the Redmond startup had built for it. Within days the 30-person company cut a large part of its workforce, according to GeekWire. The cuts included the technical team that ran the Starbucks account. Starbucks did not tell its own baristas for […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-28

AI is finding twice as many software flaws. Almost none get exploited.

AI-discovered vulnerabilities are arriving at roughly twice last year’s rate. Almost none of them are being exploited. The US National Vulnerabilities Database recorded 45,207 software flaws between January and 27 July, already approaching the whole of 2025, which was itself a record. On that trajectory the year ends at roughly double the 2025 total, Bloomberg […]<br /> This story contin [...]

2026-07-28

The CW's live sports programming is coming to ESPN on August 4

The CW's live sports programming is coming to ESPN on August 4. [...]

2026-07-28

This Plugable portable monitor fixed my single-screen workflow — but one cable rule almost ruined everything for me

Plugable's 15.6-inch USB-C portable monitor turned my laptop into a two-screen setup with a single cable [...]

2026-07-28

‘What we're really fighting is people scripting computers to generate thousands of songs and uploading them in batches to overwhelm, flood and replace’: Deezer's Head of Research on that industry-leading AI-filter — and why we need it now more than ever

‘Just by relying on some plain signal processing and mathematical tools, we were able to actually detect these artifacts for most models out there’ [...]

2026-07-28

I pitched Chuck Lorre a plan for how Stuart Fails to Save the Universe can retcon The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon's biggest mistake — and he's seriously considering it

There's an obvious way that Stuart Fails to Save the Universe can rectify a Big Bang Theory so big that the creators publicly apologized for it — so I've asked them to make that change. [...]