Browsing: Breaking Tech

The Google Play Store is home to millions of apps, and it’s also where developers push updates that introduce new features and squash bugs. I’ve been an Android user all my life, and in my experience, app crashes have mostly been caused by buggy updates rather than something being wrong with the phone itself. So, if…

“While AI will help us improve cyber defense over time, it also accelerates the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber threats. Frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. The timeline is not years, it is months.”

New York City has surpassed the San Francisco Bay Area as the largest tech talent market by headcount in the U.S., according to CBRE’s 13th annual Scoring Tech Talent report. New York’s 394,300 tech talent jobs surpassed San Francisco’s 375,730 — a milestone that marks the first time New York has claimed the top position…

Nvidia published some interesting new research on Friday suggesting it’s the harness, more than the underlying model, that is far more important when asking an AI to do long-horizon tasks. A harness is the software wrapper around an AI model — the tools, memory management, and rules that turn a raw model into something that…

Buying a GameCube is one of the few official ways to experience the console’s library for the first time or relive your childhood favorites. And while the ‘Cube has fewer hurdles to using it today than many of its ancestors have, it’s not necessarily as simple as plugging and playing. If you’re not careful with…

No company is immune to the continuing chip shortage and its effect on pricing, not even Amazon. As first spotted by Fortune, Amazon has increased prices across its Echo, Fire TV, Kindle and eero product lineups without any major announcement. The price hikes are as high as 60 percent in some cases and as expensive as…