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eBay rejects GameStop’s $56 billion acquisition bid
- Jess Weatherbed
- May 12, 2026
eBay has officially rejected GameStop's offer to buy the online marketplace for $56 billion, citing concerns around "operational risks" and how the ac...
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These new Roombas are smaller and cheaper
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
- May 12, 2026
iRobot has announced a new line of Roombas, a year after it debuted its first lidar-based robot vacuums just prior to filing for bankruptcy. This week...
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Sony upgraded its wearable AC so it’s cooler and better at hugging your neck
- Andrew Liszewski
- May 12, 2026
Sony has announced a new version of the wearable personal air conditioner the company first revealed in 2019 ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The lat...
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OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos
- Stevie Bonifield
- May 11, 2026
OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex S...
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Yarbo says it will remove the intentional backdoor from its robot lawn mower
- Sean Hollister
- May 11, 2026
The company behind the robot lawn mower that ran me over has changed its tune. Yarbo now plans to completely remove the remote backdoor access that co...
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Here’s what Mira Murati’s AI company is up to
- Jay Peters
- May 11, 2026
Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called "interaction models...
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Govee’s new portable smart lamp is on sale for the first time
- Sheena Vasani
- May 11, 2026
If you’ve always liked the idea of the Philips Hue Go portable lamp but couldn’t justify the $100+ price tag, Govee recently released a much cheaper a...
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Palantir’s true believers are wearing this jacket
- Mia Sato
- May 11, 2026
In late April, Palantir - the software company that, in recent years, has perhaps become best known for its defense industry contracts and work with I...
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Apple brings encrypted RCS chats to iPhone
- Jay Peters
- May 11, 2026
Apple now lets you have encrypted RCS conversations with Android users through the Messages app on iOS. As part of iOS 26.5, which was released on Mon...
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Texas sues Netflix for advertising ‘bait and switch’ and spying
- Emma Roth
- May 11, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Netflix, accusing the company of "spying on Texans, including children, and collecting u...
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Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI
- Stevie Bonifield
- May 11, 2026
For the first time, Google says it has spotted and stopped a zero-day exploit developed with AI. According to a report from Google Threat Intelligence...
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A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers
- Sean Hollister
- May 11, 2026
A baby's eyes peer directly into the camera lens. A kid with a striped shirt looks up, then away. A boy in a policeman's costume, a gold star on his c...