Month: July 2026
Major labels call for AI slop songs to be banned from entering charts around the world
Tens of thousands of AI-generated songs are uploaded to music streaming platforms every day. Source
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Full school day cellphone bans are more popular than ever
As schools across the country continue to implement cellphone bans, a new Pew Research Center survey shows they continue to gain support. Seventy-seven percent of US adults support banning cellphones in middle and high school classes, and 48 percent support banning them for the entire school day. That’s the first…
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I asked Control Resonant’s gameplay designer all my burning questions — how the combat’s ‘melee focus’ differs from the original, and why you ‘haven’t played anything exactly like’ what you’ll see in its 30-hour length
There are few games as eagerly anticipated as Control Resonant, Remedy Entertainment’s upcoming action-adventure RPG. After all, we’ve endured a long wait since 2019’s Control introduced us to the Lynchian world of the red-hued Hiss and the Federal Bureau of Control. The good news is that the wait is nearly…
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The Ferrari Luce has at least 500 fans
Just two months after a bumpy launch earlier this year, Ferrari has reportedly already hit its 2026 sales goal for its polarizing, Jony Ive-designed Luce EV. Ahead of Ferrari announcing its quarterly earnings on Thursday, the Financial Times reports that Ferrari was aiming to sell “just under 500” Luce units…
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Updating your app might not keep you safe: How outdated OpenVPN code leaves VPNs exposed
Trust your VPN software updates keep you safe? Believe that downloading the latest release protects you from most known threats? You might be surprised to learn that there could be a set of invisible vulnerabilities lurking inside your state-of-the-art VPN. That’s because more than half of Windows VPNs we analyzed…
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‘We are the reason that data centers get built and expanded’: It’s not about whether we need them, but it’s about where we build them, IDCA founder and CEO says
Adding to the existing pressures that data centers face regarding energy supply and grid connections, land shortages and chip availability, many hyperscalers are now facing local opposition to project proposals. At a congressional hearing earlier this year, US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez presented two jars of murky water, filled from homes…
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