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The best anti-AI smartphones in 2026: Expert tested and recommended

ZDNet

The best anti-AI smartphones in 2026: Expert tested and recommended

Sick to death of unwanted AI features getting stuffed into your smartphone? We tested the best models from Apple, Samsung, and more that forego AI in favor of features you actually need.

ZDNet

A rail nightmare: what it’s like on England’s busiest commuter-only train

A rail nightmare: what it’s like on England’s busiest commuter-only train

This evening service from London to Crewe is hot, sweaty and heaving with people, many having to stand or sit in the gangways The 5.46pm train from London Euston to Crewe is the low point of Nikhil Patel’s week. “I’ve never gotten a seat…

US water facilities targeted by ‘malicious cyber actors’ – who’s to blame?

US water facilities targeted by ‘malicious cyber actors’ – who’s to blame?

Despite Trump’s efforts to blame Tim Walz and Minnesota, officials suspect Iran behind attacks on US infrastructure Late last week, federal authorities issued a stern warning saying “malicious cyber actors” were targeting water and…

Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So

Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So

ESPN unveiled an “AI tells detection” tool during broadcasts of the 2026 World Series of Poker. Is it a neat computer-powered party trick, or a real threat to poker’s future?

The next Xbox could play every Xbox game ever made

The Verge

The next Xbox could play every Xbox game ever made

The next Xbox, Project Helix, could theoretically have the largest library of any home console. Not only will it play PC games, we now know, courtesy of a leaked memo obtained by The Verge's Tom Warren, that it will run games from every…

The Verge

Telemetry in AI and why it may be a ticking bomb for CTOs and CFOs

Telemetry in AI and why it may be a ticking bomb for CTOs and CFOs

As telemetry becomes central to how modern platforms are built, trained, and automated, its perceived future utility has driven a dramatic increase in collection and retention. A recent study shows telemetry volumes tripling in many…

How I Solved Minecraft’s Squashed-Potato Sphere Problem

Hacker Noon

How I Solved Minecraft’s Squashed-Potato Sphere Problem

If you've ever tried to build a sphere in Minecraft, you know the pain. You start with a circle, stack layers, and hope it looks round. But a sphere isn't a stack of circles — it's a continuous surface approximated in a blocky grid. Get…

Hacker Noon

Our favorite high-end music player brand just unveiled a successor to its 5-star entry-level DAP

Astell & Kern is launching an 'entry-level' DAP to supersede the SR35 We'll have to believe it for now, because no actual price has been provided Highlights include EnviroTune ambient noise awareness and an Octa-DAC mode Astell & Kern has…

How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot

How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot

Ati Robotics assembles its robots in India and uses just a few Chinese parts—a strategy that could pay off as the Trump administration cracks down on Chinese humanoids.

Defense chief reveals classified details of German RCH 155 deliveries to Kiev

TASS

Defense chief reveals classified details of German RCH 155 deliveries to Kiev

During a visit to the KNDS plant in Kassel, Boris Pistorius said that the "wheeled howitzer has proven itself in Ukraine"

TASS

Ukraine's Fire Point starts to integrate European tech into missile defence system

Straits Times

Ukraine's Fire Point starts to integrate European tech into missile defence system

Aug 4 - Ukrainian drone and missile maker Fire Point has secured agreements from over a dozen European defence companies to provide radar, guidance and other systems for the Freyja missile defence project, and is starting to integrate the…

Straits Times

Big Walk review – larking around with mates elevated to an artform

Big Walk review – larking around with mates elevated to an artform

Switch 2, PlayStation 5, PC; House House The creators of Untitled Goose Game return with an online, open-world adventure that delivers slapstick silliness and bucolic majesty in nearly equal measure Radiant sunsets glinting on lapping…