A raid on X’s Paris office was carried out by the Paris prosecutor’s cybercrime unit on Tuesday with Europol and French police as part of an ongoing investigation that expanded in July to include Grok. As previously reported by Reuters, Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino were also summoned for hearings in April….
Nintendo has had plenty of highs over its few decades in the video game industry. Popularizing home consoles with the NES, introducing new audiences to games through the Wii’s motion controls, and the touchscreen Trojan horse that was the Nintendo DS, to name a few. But often these successes were followed by missteps; the Wii…
Anthropic’s Claude AI models experienced a major outage today, impacting products like Claude Code. Developers were seeing a 500 error when trying to use Claude Code, and Anthropic said that it was seeing elevated error rates on its APIs “across all Claude models.” Anthropic quickly identified the root cause and implemented a fix within around…
An image from ALDNOAH.ZERO. Crunchyroll is raising its prices in the US and “select international markets,” including the first price hike to its lowest-priced tier since 2019. Here are the price changes, according to Crunchyroll: Fan Tier will increase from $7.99/month to $9.99/month. Mega Fan Tier will increase from $11.99/month to $13.99/month. Ultimate Fan Tier…
If you’re looking for a versatile gift for Valentine’s Day that can be sentimental and practical, Amazon’s fourth-generation Echo Show 8 can serve as both a digital photo frame and a smart home controller. And right now, it’s on sale at Amazon for $149.99 ($30 off) — a new low price — as part of…
Devices featuring older LPDDR2 memory the company has stockpiled are not affected. | Image: Raspberry Pi Following an initial price increase announced two months ago, Raspberry Pi is raising prices again for several of its single-board computers. “The cost of some parts has more than doubled over the last quarter,” Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton…
Emails released by the Justice Department on Friday appear to show that former Windows boss Steven Sinofsky not only consulted Jeffrey Epstein for help in securing his $14 million “retirement” package in November of 2012, but also in working on future career steps at other companies like Samsung or Apple. One document appears to show…
Steven Sinofsky with a Surface RT tablet in 2012. | Image: Getty Images Emails between former Windows boss Steven Sinofsky and Jeffrey Epstein, published by the Justice Department on Friday, appear to show that Sinofsky constantly sought Epstein’s advice as he negotiated his surprise exit from Microsoft in November 2012, forwarding emails to him in…
Reports of Bill Gates’ connections with Jeffrey Epstein grow more lurid with each dump of documents from the Department of Justice. The latest includes somewhat confusing emails that Epstein may have been drafting on behalf of someone named Boris, who worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The messages claim that Bill contracted an…
After protests broke out in early January, the Iranian regime shut down the internet, starting the longest blackout in Iranian history. Despite this attempt to stop the protests from spreading, they did not stop. Still, the internet shutdown slowed down the spread of information both inside and outside Iran. Behind the heavily policed borders and…
