From ExtremeTech: There was a time when the term "AI" was synonymous with ChatGPT. But that time is long gone. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a "code red" on Monday—around 3 years after ChatGPT was released to the public—urging staff to prioritize improving ChatGPT as competitors like Google and...

From PC Mag: Uber has launched its commercial robotaxi service in Dallas, Texas.

Starting today, whenever a customer books an UberX, Uber Comfort, or Uber Comfort Electric ride, they may automatically get matched with an Avride autonomous vehicle (AV) at no additional cost. Riders can choose to...

From PC World: The price of eggs has nothing on the price of computer memory right now. Thanks to a supply crunch from the “AI” bubble, RAM chips are the new gold, with prices on consumer PC memory kits ballooning out of control. In an object lesson in the ridiculousness of an economic bubble...

From CNET: Spotify has yet to release its 2025 edition of its popular Spotify Wrapped year-in-review feature (last year it debuted on Dec. 4), but Apple Music and Amazon Music are here to fill the void with their own versions of the year-end recap (if you use those services).

Apple Music Replay is...

From CNET: DeepSeek, the China-based AI company, has released two new reasoning-capable AI models, V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale, with the latter outperforming Gemini 3.0 Pro and GPT-5 High in benchmarks, the company said in news release on Monday. At the moment, V3.2 is available on the app and web...

From PC World: AMD’s X3D series of Ryzen CPUs are a smash hit for PC gamers, so much so that they’re taking a massive bite of out of Intel’s dominance in the desktop market. And while AMD keeps releasing new updates to older platforms, there’s a fresh new Zen 5 variant that might just be the...

From PC Mag: Apple's AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position and will be replaced by Amar Subramanya, the former head of engineering for Google's Gemini assistant, the company announced on Monday.

Giannandrea will continue to serve the company in a limited capacity before he...

From The Verge: Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices. An updated help page on Netflix’s website, first reported by Android Authority, says that the streaming service “no longer supports casting shows from a...

From PC Mag: It's easy to get overwhelmed by browser tabs, but Firefox is testing a new system that will allow you to add annotations to help you remember why you were looking at them in the first place.

First spotted by Windows Report, the notes option appeared in the latest version of Firefox...

From PC World: If you enjoy streaming your own content via Plex to devices like Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, or Android TV, some bad news is coming your way: it’s going to start costing money soon.

Back in April 2025, a change came into effect that affected Plex users who remotely accessed the content...