Maximize value, not token usage, Amazon has told its engineers, citing concerns about rising AI costs and complexity.Amazon made the strategy shift public on Tuesday in a note to engineering teams outlining the changing role of its software developm...
GitHub's Universe conference kicked off in San Francisco on Wednesday with news that its infrastructural universe is expanding to address staggering demand from AI agents.GitHub recorded 7.4 billion code commits in September 2026, five times more th...
Google parent company Alphabet says that its AI investments are leading to a big growth in searches year-over-year, as noted in its Q3 2026 earnings today."Our AI investments are driving overall Search query growth, including commercial queries...
Microsoft just posted the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $92.3 billion in revenue and a net income of $33.6 billion during Q1. Revenue is up 19 percent, and net income has increased by 32 percent.It'...
With an OLED display and touchscreen capabilities, it's no surprise that the new MacBook Pro Apple announced today is more expensive than the MBP announced earlier this year. But upgrading the base models that start at $2,899 for the 14-inch, a...
Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligen...
Ukrainian ransomware crook Artem Stryzhak has been sentenced to 70 months in the slammer by a New York federal court for his role as an affiliate of the Nefilim and Hive ransomware gangs.Prosecutors believe the cybercriminal began working with Nefil...
A gavel prior to an open commission meeting at the FCC. | Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images What do drones, routers, and Roombas have in common? The US government wants to keep Chinese ones from entering the country. They’re the first...
Apple announced a new iPad Mini with a larger OLED display this week, and we've just gotten to try it out at Apple's "Pro and tell" event.It's an iPad for sure, but the new OLED on the Mini looks exceptional, and the optional nano-texture matte...
A cartoon from an ex-Google software engineer, titled “Welcome to Google,” made the rounds a while back. It featured two diverging roads, neither passable. One was the main road, marked as deprecated (“don’t even think about it,” the sign read). The...
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the agency will vote on November 19th on rules that would allow prisons to use signal jamming. Radiofrequency jammers are generally banned under Section 333 and the Communications Act of 1934, with few except...
Nearly two years after LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their latest smart TVs would include access to Microsoft's Copilot, the company is ending support for the AI assistant's functionality on all TVs this year, according to a report...
Trillium Asset Management wants Microsoft to explain how it will meet its 2030 greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets, and is backing a shareholder proposal to request this information at the firm’s next shareholder meeting.The cloud and software bi...
In this economy, how often does a product get less expensive before its debut? That just happened with the Google / Xreal Aura - the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute puck and multiple virtual screens - which just w...
As expected, Apple finally showed off its 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros at its recent "Pro and tell" event. The long-awaited laptops feature a Tandem OLED display with full touch capabilities, while also cutting some weight and bringing back the...
China's secretive spaceplane has been spotted in orbit by a US commercial satellite, according to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) The DIA's report [PDF] warns of developments by China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea that allegedly threaten spac...
Intel has become the latest target for Good Jobs First, which questions why the chipmaker continues to receive tax breaks from key states, long after setting up shop there, and laying off thousands of workers in those regions.The non-profit organiz...
Cisco has open sourced a behavior detection engine that watches AI agents, to help security teams prevent rogue agents from going off the rails like they did with the Hugging Face hack – or worse.It’s called Project Quarry, and it aims to provide a...
UK domain registrar 123 Reg (no relation – Ed) says it was the victim of an “AI-driven cyberattack” that exposed customer data. Customers began receiving their notification emails this week, informing them that their contact information, "related cu...
The question of who controls satellite-based connectivity came into sharp focus in recent weeks after Ukraine's service was throttled and then restored.Wherever Reg readers stand on those activities involving SpaceX's Starlink and Starshield, relian...