Mario Tennis Fever preview: A racket-smashing blast

New Mario sports games typically only come around once in a generation. So to get a fresh installment of tennis featuring a deep roster of characters this early in the Switch 2's lifecycle is rat [...]

Engadget review recap: Switch 2, Playdate games and a Framework laptop

The Nintendo Switch 2 has been all the rage around the Engadget HQ for the last few weeks. Even the editors who didn't write the official review have had their hands glued to their new toys. Of c [...]

Blackmail becomes go-to strategy for AI models facing shutdown in new Anthropic tests

A new study from Anthropic suggests that large AI models can sometimes behave like disloyal employees, raising real security concerns even if their actions aren't intentional.<br /> The art [...]

Windscribe review: Despite the annoyances, it has the right idea

Windscribe is a virtual private network (VPN) with intense "How do you do, fellow kids?" energy. It has servers in 69 countries and an annual plan that costs $69, an obsession with the sex n [...]

A-List creatives sign up to fight AI, say it enables 'theft at a grand scale'

Scarlett Johannsson, R.E.M., Vince Gilligan and over 700 other artists are demanding that tech companies stop “stealing” their work in order to train AI models. A new campaign called “Stealing i [...]

The Xbox PC app will soon integrate your various game libraries into one place

Microsoft is getting ready to make the Xbox PC app your go-to gaming hub, regardless of where you buy your games. The company has announced that Xbox Insiders enrolled in the PC Gaming Preview will ge [...]

A new iPhone hacking tool puts anyone still on iOS 18 at risk

Google and cybersecurity companies Lookout and iVerify have detailed a new hacking technique that potentially puts a significant portion of iPhone users in danger, just by visiting the wrong web page. [...]

Yann LeCun leaves Meta to launch new AI startup

After twelve years at Meta, Yann LeCun announces his departure. The Turing Award winner wants to overcome the limits of today's AI models with a new start-up - and Meta remains involved as a part [...]

Half of AI-written code that passes industry test would get rejected by real developers, new study finds

About half of the AI code solutions that pass the popular SWE-bench benchmark would get rejected by actual project maintainers, according to a new study by the research organization METR.<br /> [...]