From Tom's Hardware: Some of the world's wealthiest companies, including Apple and Nvidia, are among countless parties who allegedly trained their AI using scraped YouTube videos as training data. The YouTube transcripts were reportedly accumulated through means that violate YouTube's Terms of...

From PC Mag: Canon just introduced two highly anticipated cameras, the EOS R1 and EOS R5 Mark II. The R1 was expected, as Canon announced its development earlier this year. Likewise, it was a safe assumption that the 4-year-old R5 would see a follow-up model, so the Mark II was not a matter of if...

From CNET: Xiaomi is the latest player to enter the flip phone arena. The Beijing-based company showed off its inaugural flip phone, the Mix Flip, ahead of its launch in China on Friday. The Mix Flip adopts the large outer screen seen on recent flip phone offerings such as Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 6...

From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR (Nasdaq: CRSR) today announced the launch of the TC500 LUXE, the new flagship of its premium Gaming Chair family. Offering an unparalleled level of luxury and comfort, the TC500 LUXE redefines the gaming chair with its exquisite design and superior adjustability...

From The Verge: UK regulators are now formally investigating Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection AI staff, months after most of Inflection’s staff joined Microsoft’s new AI division. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is now opening up a phase one merger investigation into the partnership...

From PC Mag: Rite Aid says a recent data breach affects 2.2 million users — far fewer than the 45 million claimed by the ransomware group allegedly behind the attack.

The drugstore chain was previously mum on the number of users affected. But on Monday, Rite Aid disclosed the 2.2 million figure in...

From CNET: The new OnePlus Nord 4 has an all-metal unibody design, which OnePlus says is the first of its kind in a 5G phone. Sadly, the device looks set for a Europe-only release, so US fans clamoring for a slick metal phone will have to look on in envy. The Nord 4 is joined by a suite of other new...

From The Verge: Apple just launched a version of its HomePod Mini smart speaker in a new “midnight” color. The dark color looks very similar to the original space gray that the Mini launched in, but the new naming brings it in line with the midnight HomePod second-gen that was released early last...

From PC Mag: AMD's new "Strix Point" Ryzen AI 300 Series processors are coming to laptops this month, and the chip maker just dropped more details about performance, architecture changes, and AI capabilities. Promising faster speeds, longer battery life, and improved gaming are par for the course...

From PC World: AMD fans have been salivating today as the company officially announced the launch date for its next-gen desktop CPU lineup. The Ryzen 9000 series is headlined by the 9950X, an absolute CPUnit with 16 cores and a maximum boost boost of up to 5.7 gigahertz. But the proof is in the...