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Amazon to launch Ring ‘neighbourhood watch’ app in UK amid US privacy fears
Amazon’s Ring is launching its Neighbours community app in the UK on 21 October, aiming to replace informal WhatsApp or Facebook neighbourhood groups with a dedicated platform for local safety updates, community matters and lost pets. The app will be free within the existing Ring app and open to anyone, not just owners of Ring…
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Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple bundle of joy
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Nintendo GameCube, and the Guardian writer reflects on the console as their first-ever games purchase, tracing how it went from being seen as an underwhelming flop compared with the Xbox and PlayStation 2 to being fondly remembered today as a charming, uncomplicated gaming machine. The piece argues…
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Threads leans even further into podcasts with transcripts, analytics and more
Meta is expanding Threads’ podcast features, building on tools it introduced in 2025, to make the app a more central hub for podcast promotion. Users can now share transcripts, save episodes to revisit later, and track how much traffic their Threads posts are driving to their shows, all without leaving the app, as Meta looks…
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SpaceX Starship to reach orbit with 26 Starlink satellites
SpaceX is targeting 22 September for the 14th test flight of its Starship rocket, aiming to reach orbit for the first time while carrying 26 Starlink V3 satellites. The mission marks a significant step for the programme, which is central to SpaceX’s plans to exceed the payload capacity of its Falcon 9 rocket and to…
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Here’s how the iPhone 18 Pro’s Apple Reference Image tech works
Apple has introduced a Reference Image mode on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, designed to prove that a photo is genuine and hasn’t been altered by AI or editing tools. As deepfakes and AI-generated images become harder to spot, the feature aims to give photos a verifiable “tamper-proof seal,” using cryptographic signatures rather…
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iPhone 18 Pro review: The standard setter
Engadget’s review of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max finds Apple’s latest flagship to be an incremental “S-year” update rather than a dramatic overhaul, following last year’s redesigned iPhone 17 Pro. With no standard iPhone 18 announced and the new foldable iPhone Duo not yet available, the Pro models are effectively the only new…
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A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation
This piece contextualises the recent wave of AI executives—including Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Satya Nadella and Elon Musk—publicly calling for AI regulation, arguing that such warnings from people who profit from the technology deserve scepticism but are not new. It traces a long lineage of concern about intelligent machines, from 19th-century philosophical warnings…
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The iPhone 18 Pro’s big camera update is all about the small gains
The Verge’s review of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max finds them largely iterative, sharing the same design and cases as last year’s iPhone 17 Pro. The most notable hardware addition is a variable aperture on the main camera, alongside improved thermal management for the new A20 Pro chip, but the reviewer argues these…
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Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack
Spain’s data protection agency (AEPD) has reported the country’s first personal data breach caused by an autonomous AI agent, marking a shift from theoretical concern to documented reality for Spanish regulators. An individual deployed an AI agent built on an unnamed large language model to scan an organisation’s files, run vulnerability scans, and gain read/write…