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British regulator investigates whether Microsoft misled personal and family customers

Straits Times

British regulator investigates whether Microsoft misled personal and family customers

The probe would examine Microsoft’s addition of its AI assistant to Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

Straits Times

The 15 Best Pool Accessories to Upgrade Your Summer (2026)

The 15 Best Pool Accessories to Upgrade Your Summer (2026)

These are the cleaning robots, water monitors, and toys actually worth buying for pool season.

groundcover raises $100M to build observability for the AI era

groundcover raises $100M to build observability for the AI era

groundcover, an observability startup that keeps customers’ monitoring data inside their own cloud, has raised $100 million in a Series C round. The financing was led by the growth investor One Peak, with Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital…

Freehand raises $75M to put AI agents in charge of supply-chain spend

Freehand raises $75M to put AI agents in charge of supply-chain spend

The startup, whose agents negotiate and pay across procurement for the likes of Unilever and Pfizer, is betting enterprises want software that acts, not software that suggests. Freehand, a startup whose AI agents take over the grunt work…

Samsung, Google and Apple Made It Way Easier to Switch From an iPhone to Android

CNET

Samsung, Google and Apple Made It Way Easier to Switch From an iPhone to Android

The new way to switch from an iPhone to Android isn’t perfect, but it’s far smoother.

CNET

Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning

Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning

When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Essentially, his books, like The…

Fast Metals is treating waste with more waste to extract critical minerals

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Fast Metals is treating waste with more waste to extract critical minerals

Aluminum production has saddled the world with billions of tons of caustic waste. One startup has a plan to clean it up and turn a profit.

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Love It or Hate It, the Ferrari Luce Is a Thrilling Drive

Love It or Hate It, the Ferrari Luce Is a Thrilling Drive

WIRED test-drove a preproduction version of the Luce, the storied Italian automaker’s controversial electric car, and it was remarkably surprising. Will it convert Ferrari fanatics?

OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face

OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed…

Rare, fully-functional Nintendo Famicombox retro consoles were discovered in a Japanese love hotel

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Rare, fully-functional Nintendo Famicombox retro consoles were discovered in a Japanese love hotel

Nintendo's 1986 commercial-use Famicombox is rare, but a Japanese love hotel reportedly has one in almost every room.

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Karishma Tanna and Varun Bangera welcome baby boy on Guru Purnima

Times of India

Karishma Tanna and Varun Bangera welcome baby boy on Guru Purnima

Karishma Tanna and husband Varun Bangera welcomed their first child, a baby boy, born on Guru Purnima, July 29, 2026. Karishma shared the news on Instagram, writing, "Our greatest blessing is here." Celebrities like Khushi Kapoor, Anjali…

Times of India

Yemen’s Houthis considering fees for ships traversing the Red Sea, sources say

Times of Israel