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Google trains its AI on your search activity — how to opt out
PSA: A change to Google’s privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here’s how to opt out.
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Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles ranked for 11 July 2026
Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might” returns to the top 10 of the Hot 100, while “Dracula” scales its way higher into the top 10, and Olivia Dean returns to the top five. Will Ella Langley hit a 12th week at No. 1, or will Taylor Swift take over? Tetris Kelly: This is the Billboard Hot…
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Microsoft axes 4,800 roles in fresh cuts alongside Xbox overhaul
Thousands of gaming jobs will be shed over the coming fiscal year as Microsoft continues to invest heavily in AIMicrosoft said on Monday it was eliminating about 4,800 jobs – roughly 2% of its global workforce – in a cost-cutting move that will deliver a sweeping restructuring of its struggling Xbox gaming division.The cuts include…
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Secret Anthropic tracker in Claude alarms privacy-conscious users
Anthropic accused of spying on users; engineer says “experiment” is over.
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Every day evolves from gratitude into something more emotionally complex
Nicholas Gay, the musician who records swirly acoustic-electronic music under the name Lockimara, is currently living in New York, pursuing a master’s degree in music production, after stints in Vancouver and Toronto. Later this month, he’ll release his sophomore album Only Sun, Only Moon, and he caught our attention with the single “Tastes Like.” Today,…
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Elder Scrolls Online loses roughly half its content team to Microsoft cuts
A grim outcome from Xbox’s latest round of reaping.
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Microsoft layoffs strike Bethesda and ZeniMax particularly hard, union says
ZeniMax Online Studios and id Software have survived the latest bloodbath at Microsoft, but it sounds like they’ve been cut deeply.
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Tilly Norwood AI-generated actor reportedly cast in feature-length film
Get excited for a feature film starring an AI character that doesn’t exist in any real way.
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Handout to black women drove Independence Day comments by Jasmine Crockett
Rep. Jasmine Crockett told the Essence Festival that America owes Black women “everything,” sparking fierce online backlash over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
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Reboots Rarely Get Worse Than Netflix’s Disastrous New Fantasy Addition
Neil Marshall’s 2019 Hellboy reboot didn’t just bomb at the box office, it also disappointed the majority of the comic’s fan base.