Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI have joined Google in paying the Wikimedia Foundation for access to its projects, including Wikipedia’s vast collection of articles. The Wikimedia Foundation announced…
Wikipedia turns 25 and shares a glimpse into the lives of its volunteer editors
It’s been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it’s come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online…
The best e-reader to buy right now
Any ebook reader will let you cram a Beauty and the Beast-sized library’s worth of books in your pocket, but so will your phone. An ebook reader offers a more…
X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t
Following the proliferation of the nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on X, the platform has detailed changes to the Grok account’s ability to edit images of real people. They match the changes…
Inside the White House shitposting machine
Screens at the White House display AI-modified videos of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that were shared on social media by…
WeatherTech founder might be the newest US consumer protection official
President Donald Trump made an unconventional pick for his nomination to the Federal Trade Commission: WeatherTech founder and CEO David MacNeil. MacNeil founded the company, which makes weather-resistant car floor…
The Bone Temple turns 28 Years Later into a terrifying crisis of faith
Because there was such a long gap between the releases of 28 Weeks Later and 28 Years Later, it was surprising to hear that writer-director duo Alex Garland and Danny…
Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue
The Senate passed a bill that could give people who’ve found their likeness deepfaked into sexually explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit…
Microsoft is retiring its Office Lens app on iOS and Android
The Office Lens app launched in 2015. Microsoft is removing its Lens scanner app from iOS and Android in the coming months. Microsoft Lens, or Office Lens as it’s known…
Fired Rockstar employees’ plea for interim pay denied
A UK employment tribunal rejected a request from fired Rockstar Games employees to receive interim pay while waiting for a full hearing about their dismissal, according to Bloomberg and IGN.…
Framework hikes desktop PC prices as RAM shortage drags on
Just weeks after raising the price of its RAM modules, Framework has announced that it’s also increasing the price of its desktop PC in response to the global memory shortage.…
Meta plans to lay off hundreds of metaverse employees this week
Meta’s Reality Labs team is expected to lose around 10 percent of its staff, with layoffs concentrated on the division’s metaverse employees, as reported by The New York Times. The…
Trump’s fundraisers asked Microsoft for its White House ballroom donation
The Trump administration approached Microsoft for its donation to fund the White House’s $300 million ballroom, documents released by Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) office reveal. In response to a Democrat-led…
You need to listen to Billy Woods’ horrorcore masterpiece for the A24 crowd
Billy Woods has one of the highest batting averages in the game. Between his solo records like Hiding Places and Maps, and his collaborative albums with Elucid as Armand Hammer,…
Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches
Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to certain medical inquiries. Now…
Here are over 20 gadgets that’ll help you achieve your New Year’s resolutions
It happens every year: we set ambitious New Year’s resolutions – work out more, spend less, keep the house cleaner – full of optimism and motivation. Then life happens, and…
Instagram says it fixed the issue that let someone send all those password reset emails
If you’re one of the many, many people who received a password reset email from Instagram the other day, the company says it fixed the issue. What was the issue?…
Musk says he’s going to open-source the new X algorithm next week
In 2023, what was then still called Twitter, open-sourced at least portions of the code that decided what it served up in your feed. But that GitHub repository is hopelessly…
These are the smart home gadgets that impressed me at CES 2026
A giant version of Lockin’s wirelessly charged V7 smart lock was a showstopper on the CES show floor. I picked Aqara’s Smart Lock U400 and Roborock’s Saros Rover robot vacuum…
The FCC is letting SpaceX launch 7,500 more Starlink satellites
The FCC approved SpaceX’s plan to launch an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites on Friday. That brings the total number of satellites the company will have in orbit to around…
Amazfit’s Active 2 tracker and Blu-rays are this week’s best deals
The start of the year is typically a great time to snag deals on health and fitness gear, including trackers and wireless earbuds, and this week was no exception. We…
I’ve never used a trackball, but Keychron’s Nape Pro looks like the perfect one
Put this ball under your board. Keychron announced new mechanical keyboards with marathon battery life at CES, but this trackball stole the spotlight. The Nape Pro is Keychron’s first trackball,…
Betterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,000 crypto scam message
Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to “triple your crypto,” according to a…
Amazon is planning a Super Amazon-mart store near Chicago
Amazon could be taking another, even bigger swing at physical stores, this time with a Walmart-like supercenter. On Tuesday, the Orland Park Plan Commission in the Chicago suburb Orland Park,…
X accuses music publishers of ‘weaponizing’ DMCA takedowns
X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion in their ongoing battle over licensing, as reported earlier by…
This company could help bring Auracast to an iPhone near you
The splitR Auracast transceiver can attach to an iPhone’s MagSafe spot. One of the issues holding Auracast back from wider mainstream use is some companies’ lack of support for the…
AI is coming for collectibles next
Buddyo is a smart base designed to add AI to figurines like Funko Pops using NFC tags. AI toys, companions, and robots have been everywhere at CES this year, but…
Microsoft is making it much easier to add hyperlinks in Word docs
Microsoft is making it a lot faster and easier to add links to text inside Word documents. Instead of having to open a menu item to insert a link or…
Xbox’s Towerborne is switching from a free-to-play game to a paid one
Towerborne, a side-scrolling action RPG published by Xbox Game Studios that has been available in early access, will officially launch on February 26th. But instead of launching as a free-to-play,…
Pioneer Sphera is bringing Dolby Atmos in cars to the people
The Pioneer Sphera can be installed into a single-DIN space in your dash. I fully believe that once someone hears Dolby Atmos music in their car, they won’t want anything…