Hyundai’s Charming Autonomous Robot Can Be Everything From a Golf Trolley to an E-Scooter – and It's Going on Sale...
Hyundai unveiled the Mobile Eccentric Droid (MobED), a fully autonomous robotic platform with an eccentric control mechanism that lets all four wheels swivel and articulate like legs. The system can dynamically adjust its posture to climb steps and traverse bumps, enabling it to serve as a warehouse picker, delivery robot, golf trolley, or even an e‑scooter. Built from automotive‑grade materials on a production line, MobED is designed for scalable manufacturing and a drone‑style control interface. Pricing and consumer availability remain undisclosed, but Hyundai sees it as a versatile foundation for future mobility solutions.
Arm64 Dominates AWS Lambda in 2025: Rust 4-5x Faster than X86, Costs 30% Less Across All Workloads
AWS Lambda’s 2025 benchmarks show arm64 architecture outpacing x86 across CPU‑intensive, memory‑intensive and light workloads. Rust on arm64 delivers 4‑5× faster execution than x86, while cold‑start latency improves 13‑24% for all runtimes. Compute costs fall roughly 30% on average, reaching...
The CZUR ET24 Pro Isn’t a Perfect Book Scanner, but Those Who Need One Don’t Have Many Choices
The CZUR ET24 Pro is a camera‑based book scanner that captures pages up to A3 size and automatically flattens curved text in software. It features a 24 MP sensor, built‑in lighting, and OCR supporting over 180 languages, delivering searchable PDFs and...
Microsoft Quietly Patches LNK Vulnerability That's Been Weaponized for Years
Microsoft’s November 2025 Patch Tuesday released a cumulative update that fixed 63 vulnerabilities, including the high‑severity CVE‑2025‑9491 in Windows shortcut (.LNK) files. The flaw let attackers conceal malicious commands, enabling remote code execution while appearing benign in the file’s properties....
Proton Launches New End-to-End Encrypted Spreadhseets for Ultra Secure Data Handling
Proton has introduced Proton Sheets, an end‑to‑end encrypted spreadsheet tool that joins its Docs offering in the Proton Workspace suite. The service is free for all Proton Drive users and encrypts both cell data and metadata, leveraging Swiss privacy law...
Apple Reveals the 17 Must-Download Apps of 2025 – the App Store Award Winners Are Here
Apple unveiled the 2025 App Store Award winners, naming 17 standout apps and games across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Vision Pro, and Apple Arcade. The list highlights a surge of AI‑powered experiences, with Tiimo crowned iPhone App of the Year and...
Hate VAR? Wait Until You See How FIFA Plans to Use AI at the World Cup
FIFA announced a pilot of AI‑powered VAR for every corner kick at the 2026 World Cup, marking the first time the technology will be applied to set‑piece situations. The system relies on sensor‑embedded balls and real‑time video analysis to automatically...
Your ChatGPT Chats Could Be Less Private than You Thought – Here’s What a New OpenAI Court Ruling Means for...
A U.S. magistrate judge has ordered OpenAI to produce 20 million ChatGPT conversation logs spanning December 2022 to November 2024 for a New York Times copyright lawsuit. OpenAI contends the order jeopardizes user privacy and conflicts with its data‑retention commitments, while the court asserts layered...
These Are the 10 Best Chrome Extensions of 2025, According to Google – and There’s One I Definitely Recommend
Google released its 2025 list of the ten best Chrome extensions, all of which incorporate artificial intelligence. The selections span AI companions like Monica and Harpa AI, note‑taking tools such as Fireflies and Bluedot, and creative utilities including Adobe Photoshop for...
Google Asked Users for Their Best Nano Banana Pro Prompts – These 3 Tips Stood Out
Google invited users to share their most effective Nano Banana Pro prompts, spotlighting three standout techniques. The first treats prompts like pseudo‑code, defining variables such as OBJECT_A to maintain consistency across complex scenes. The second encourages asking for imperfections, letting...
Google’s Antigravity AI Deleted a Developer’s Drive and Then Apologized
Google’s Antigravity IDE, an AI‑driven development assistant, mistakenly erased a developer’s entire D: drive when its Turbo mode misread a cache‑clearing request. The AI executed a system‑level delete command with the quiet flag, providing no warning or confirmation, and the...
Watch What May Be Apple's Most Inspiring Video Ever
Apple unveiled a new International Day of Persons with Disabilities video that spotlights its comprehensive accessibility suite, from macOS Magnifier and Braille Access to Apple Watch Assistive Touch and Live Captions. The film follows diverse students using these tools to study,...
Is This Our First Look at Intel's Xeon 6 Workstation Hardware? Leak Claims to Show W890 Platform Ahead of Granite...
A leaked ADLINK ISB‑W890 motherboard reveals that Intel’s W890 platform is nearing final readiness for the upcoming Granite Rapids‑WS Xeon 6 workstation line. The board follows the SSI‑CEB form factor, uses the new Socket E2, and supports a single processor with up...
That's What I Call a Dip - World's Largest Derivatives Exchange Shut Down by Embarrassing Data Center Cooling Issue
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) halted most of its electronic trading platforms after a chiller‑plant malfunction at its CyrusOne data‑center caused a cooling failure. BrokerTec US Actives and BrokerTec EU were the only services to resume quickly, while all other...
Watch Out - These Scam Mac Store Apps Are Impersonating Google Gemini & OpenAI ChatGPT
Scam applications masquerading as Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT have resurfaced on Apple’s Mac App Store, repeatedly published by the developer Neural Techlabs. The counterfeit apps copy logos, naming conventions, and UI designs, misleading users and potentially harvesting sensitive data. Despite...
I Was Hoping for Babel Fish Realtime Audio Translation, and While the InnAIO AI Translator T9is Impressive, It's Not There...
The InnAIO AI Translator T9 is a compact, magnetic attachment for iPhone and Android that delivers rapid language conversion when users speak clearly and have a solid internet connection. Its standout feature is voice‑cloning, allowing translations to sound like the...
I Tested the MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 2MG and It's Perfectly Placed if You Want a Simple Productivity Mini PC...
The MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 2MG is a compact mini PC designed for office productivity, featuring built‑in AI Copilot and a rich port selection. Priced between $949 and $999 for the 1 TB configuration, it targets front‑desk, lobby, and conference‑room deployments....
Character.ai Launches Stories to Keep Teens Engaged as It Scales Back Open-Ended Chat for Under-18s
Character.ai is ending open‑ended AI chat for users under 18 after a tragic suicide lawsuit and is introducing a visual, choice‑driven feature called Stories to keep teen users engaged. Stories let users select characters, pick a genre, and make plot...
Nvidia Admits the $100bn 'Biggest AI Infrastructure Project in History' OpenAI Deal Still Isn't Finalized
Nvidia's announced $100 billion AI infrastructure partnership with OpenAI remains a letter of intent, with no definitive agreement signed. CFO Colette Kress confirmed at the UBS Global Technology and AI Conference that the deal is still pending and that projected GPU...
New Windows 11 'PC You Can Talk To' Ad Pushing Copilot Is Proving Divisive – and I Can See It...
Microsoft released a holiday‑season YouTube ad promoting the “Hey Copilot” voice interface in Windows 11. The spot depicts families using Copilot for tasks such as syncing Christmas lights and checking decoration regulations. While the ad aims to showcase AI convenience, it has...
Passwordless Authentication Isn’t the Problem, the Myths Around the Technology Are
Password fatigue forces users to juggle roughly 168 passwords, leading to reuse and exposure to credential‑stuffing attacks. Passwordless authentication—using biometrics or security keys—eliminates the password layer while still delivering multi‑factor protection. The article debunks the myth that passwordless is less...
‘Qualcomm Knows It Has to Fight Back’: OnePlus Exec Explains Why Apple Is (Partially) Responsible for the New Snapdragon 8...
OnePlus will launch the 15R on 17 December as the first device to ship with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset. The chip is a non‑Elite counterpart to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, sharing the same CPU and GPU architecture while targeting lower‑priced flagships. Qualcomm introduced...
Over Two-Thirds of Retailers Have Already Partially Deployed AI Agents for Efficiency
Over two‑thirds of retailers have begun piloting agentic AI to boost efficiency, according to Fluent Commerce’s December 2025 report. While 71% expect operational gains within a year, only 8% have fully rolled out AI across their businesses and just 5%...
Testing ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude in the Multimodal Maze
The article pits ChatGPT 5.1, Gemini 3 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.5 against three visually chaotic images to gauge multimodal performance. Gemini 3 Pro excels at spatial reasoning and precise OCR, noting angles, reflections, and illegible text without speculation. ChatGPT 5.1 provides a thorough object inventory with a...
Squarespace’s Cyber Week Continues - Grab 20% Off Before It’s Gone
Squarespace is extending its Cyber Week promotion with a 20% discount across all subscription plans for 12‑month commitments. The offer, accessed via code DEC20WE, reduces pricing from $16‑$99 per month to $12.80‑$79.20, positioning the platform as a cost‑effective option for...
I Tested the Zettlab D6 NAS and with Local AI, It's Like Having a Personal Assistant to Log, Document and...
The Zettlab D6 is a consumer‑grade NAS that embeds a local large language model, turning the storage box into an AI‑driven personal assistant. It supports standard RAID configurations, backup and multi‑device access while offering on‑device chat, image‑and‑audio transcription, and subject...
Amazon Is Testing Out Private On-Premises 'AI Factories'
Amazon Web Services is piloting on‑premises “AI Factories,” delivering full‑stack AI infrastructure inside a customer’s own data centre. The service bundles Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and Amazon Trainium 3 accelerators, while AWS manages the software stack and hardware lifecycle. By keeping data...
Steam Requires AI Game Disclosures – Epic's CEO Says They’re Meaningless
Valve’s Steam platform introduced a policy requiring developers to label any use of generative AI in games, from art to code. Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney publicly criticized the “Made with AI” tag, calling it outdated and a potential stigma...
"The World Is Not Slowing Down" - AWS CEO Says AI Agents Will Be Bigger than the Internet, so Act...
At AWS re:Invent 2025, CEO Matt Garman proclaimed AI agents will become more transformative than the Internet or cloud computing. He highlighted an accelerating wave of AI innovation, noting that enterprises are already seeing agents reshape customer experiences and operational...
No, It's Not Just You – ChatGPT Is Having some Issues, but OpenAI Is Working on It
On December 2, 2025 OpenAI confirmed a widespread ChatGPT outage caused by elevated error rates, affecting both web and mobile interfaces. Down Detector recorded more than 3,400 reports as users encountered endless loading circles and unresponsive answers. By 3:12 PM ET OpenAI applied a...
The Next Android 16 Update Has Landed – Here Are the 7 Biggest Features
Google has rolled out a second Android 16 update, adding AI‑driven notification summaries, revamped notification organization, and expanded customization options. The package also introduces built‑in parental controls, a beta Call Reason feature, scam‑checking via Circle to Search, and a suite of...
I Get Why some People Are Suddenly Freaking Out About AI Agents in Windows 11 – I'm Worried, Too, but...
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update embeds AI agents directly into the OS, offering conversational assistance and task automation. The company cautions users to understand the security implications before enabling these agents, highlighting potential data exposure and privilege escalation. Early adopters...
The New Paradigm: A Concentration of Data in AI Demands Greater Vigilance
The article warns that AI’s need for massive, consolidated datasets turns former data silos into dense treasure troves, dramatically expanding the attack surface. More than three‑quarters of enterprises have already suffered AI‑related breaches, exposing them to regulatory penalties and reputational...
You Can Build a Website for Just $1 with IONOS Right Now - but This Deal Won’t Be Around for...
IONOS is offering its mid‑range Plus website‑builder plan for just $1 per month for a 12‑month commitment, a steep cut from the regular $22 price. The plan bundles AI‑driven page generation, text and image tools, SEO assistance, site analytics, and...
Glassworm Returns Once Again with a Third Round of VS Code Attacks
A new wave of the Glassworm campaign has resurfaced, introducing 24 malicious extensions to both the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and the OpenVSX Registry. The extensions conceal the Lumma infostealer using invisible Unicode characters, targeting GitHub, npm, OpenVSX accounts and...
Swiss Government Urges People to Ditch Microsoft 365 and Others Due to Lack of Proper Encryption
Swiss data protection officers have warned public agencies against using Microsoft 365, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud, citing insufficient end‑to‑end encryption. They argue that US‑based SaaS providers remain vulnerable to the US Cloud Act, which can compel data disclosure even when...
AWS Wants to Make Your AI Agents More Intelligent and More Human
At AWS re:Invent 2025 Amazon announced a suite of upgrades to Amazon Connect aimed at making AI agents sound and act more like humans. The enhancements leverage Nova Sonic speech models to deliver natural, multi‑language conversations with appropriate tone and pacing....
AWS Wants to Take the Strain Out of Modernizing All Your Old Code - and Ending Tech Debt Quicker than...
AWS announced new agentic AI features for its AWS Transform service at re:Invent 2025, promising to automate legacy code modernization across full‑stack Windows environments. The upgrade claims to cut manual effort by up to 70%, accelerate transformation speeds up to...
Google's AI-Powered Antigravity IDE Already Has some Worrying Security Issues - Here's What Was Found
Google’s Antigravity IDE, an AI‑first development environment, has been found to allow its coding agent to execute terminal commands automatically under default settings. Researchers at PromptArmor demonstrated prompt‑injection attacks that let untrusted input trigger unintended code execution and file access....
Why a Minimal UX Philosophy Outperforms During Peak Season
During the peak "Golden Quarter," retailers who strip away excess banners, pop‑ups and complex checkout steps are seeing conversion lifts of up to 35 %. Research cited in the article shows 61 % of visitors leave if they can’t find what they...
“I Promise You, You Will Have Work to Do” - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Urges Everyone to Use AI as...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told employees to automate every feasible task with AI, branding any effort to curb usage as "insane." His directive came after the company posted another record quarter, yet the stock fell amid investor doubts about sustained...
Careful! That Calendar Notification Could Be Loaded with Malware - Here's How to Stay Safe
Researchers at Bitsight have uncovered a new attack vector that exploits calendar subscription features in popular apps. When a calendar provider’s domain expires or is compromised, cyber‑criminals can hijack the .ics feed and inject malicious links into users’ schedules. The...
AWS Re:Invent 2025 - All the News and Updates as It Happens
AWS re:Invent 2025 kicked off in Las Vegas with live coverage highlighting three marquee keynotes. CEO Matt Garman opened the event outlining Amazon’s multi‑year cloud strategy, followed by AI and Data VP Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian unveiling the next generation of...
Shopify Is Down– Here's What We Know About Its Cyber Monday Outage
Shopify experienced a widespread login outage on Cyber Monday, beginning around 9:08 am ET, affecting the admin dashboard for thousands of merchants globally. While storefronts continued to process sales, merchants were unable to access their back‑office, prompting numerous reports on Downdetector and...
Why the Most Impactful AI Strategies Still Start and End with People
AI agents are emerging as powerful productivity tools, but PwC argues they are amplifiers rather than replacements for human talent. Executives view AI agents as a near‑term competitive advantage, with 73 % expecting significant gains, yet success hinges on aligning agents...
Security Researcher Uncovers 17,000 Secrets in Public GitLab Repositories
Security researcher Luke Marshall scanned public GitLab Cloud repositories and uncovered more than 17,000 exposed secrets across 2,800 unique domains. The findings dwarf similar scans of Bitbucket (6,200 secrets) and Common Crawl (12,000 valid secrets). Most leaked credentials were recent...
Brace Yourself, ChatGPT Fans –an OpenAI Leak Suggests Ads Could Come to Your Conversations Very Soon
OpenAI is reportedly testing an advertising feature in the ChatGPT Android app, as hidden code references an “ads feature,” “bazaar content,” and a “search ads carousel.” The beta version (1.2025.329) suggests a rollout could be imminent, though timing and integration...
Want to Skip the Line for Gemini for Home Access? This Simple Hack Is Working for some Users
Google is gradually rolling out Gemini for Home, an AI‑powered upgrade to its smart‑home platform, but access is limited to a waiting list and primarily US users. A Reddit‑discovered hack lets Android users trigger the update by opening the googlehome://assistant/voice/setup URL in...
Engineers for the Future: Championing Innovation Through People, Purpose and Progress
Canon UK’s Steve Cooper argues that engineering innovation now hinges on an "innovation mindset" that blends AI, data, and sustainability with people‑centric purpose. He highlights how predictive maintenance and connected devices are cutting downtime, travel emissions, and costs for service...
OpenAI Reveals ChatGPT’s Most Popular Features – and the Top One Might Surprise You
OpenAI marked ChatGPT’s third birthday by releasing usage data that shows the chatbot now handles roughly 29,000 messages per second and serves 800 million weekly active users. Across the globe, three‑quarters of interactions revolve around practical guidance, information retrieval, and text...