Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, about 2.1% of its global workforce, including a large number of workers at its Xbox video game business. The layoffs included 1,600 Xbox workers, with more to come this year in a broader reorganization designed to “reset” Xbox as it...

The Taylor Swift wedding has an AI slop problem. Swift reportedly tied the knot with football star Travis Kelce on July 3 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, joined by a massive entourage of celebrities including (to name just a few) Ed Sheeran, Gigi Hadid, Jack...

Bookship.org seemed to delay this anticipated partnership again, but tells TechCrunch that it has settled business terms and is working on integration.

Microsoft announced on Monday it was laying off 4,800 employees, or 2.1% of its workforce, including major cuts from its Xbox division, with more to come, as part of a massive cost-cutting restructuring effort. This is just the latest round of layoffs for the tech...

The United States’ 250th birthday carries ambitions to galvanize Americans behind nationwide community-service drives and patriotic brand launches. Well-known U.S. nonprofits hope to inspire a record-setting level of volunteerism, while major companies such as Walmart...

I needed a way to connect my phone to my router and have it work reliably. So I discovered three ways to get it done.

Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Gitea Docker images, according to Sysdig. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-20896 (CVSS score: 9.8), a vulnerability that stems from the DevOps platform...

AI data center demand takes a bite out of yet another market.

Pity the poor Australians. Isolated on a jagged hunk of land far from everywhere else, these industrious people have to take two-legged flights (or more) to reach a great many destinations in the northern hemisphere. It’s expensive, time consuming, and makes planning...

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Those who use social media or AI chatbots to find health information tend to believe misinformation about COVID-19 and MMR shots.

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From watching YouTube to web browsing to other unexpected tasks, here's what you can install beyond the basics.

Apple has started a phased rollout of card payments for Apple Account purchases in India after adapting to the country's payments framework.

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With their numbers already in decline, secretaries and administrative assistants face another growing threat: artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Claude that can accomplish aspects of their workload with a tap.Employment projection data offers a grim...

There was a week, I cannot tell you exactly when it happened, when I was technically everywhere. Responding within minutes. Never missing a message. Always available. And yet, two people I genuinely care about told me, in different ways and at different moments, that...

The article argues that AI is changing the role of software engineers rather than replacing them. As code generation becomes increasingly automated, developers who excel at system design, verification, architecture, communication, and mentorship will remain in demand,...