Fairphone is finally releasing its first official handset in the US
You can now get Fairphone's reparable handset in the US without jumping through hoops.
ChatGPT's stricter teen mode starts rolling out today
OpenAI will attempt to automatically enroll all young users in the new experience.
Judge allegedly outsourced entire ruling to AI and still can't be sued — federal court upholds blanket judicial immunity
A U.S. federal court has ruled that a judge accused of relying entirely on AI to make a judicial decision can still retain judicial immunity from civil lawsuits, although the ruling does not determine whether such use of AI is legally or ethically permissible.
Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’
Reach Capital announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $265M Fund V.
ChatGPT is getting a dedicated mode for teens
ChatGPT for Teens includes safeguards and parental controls. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid mounting public scrutiny over how AI tools affect younger ...
Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit
On August 6th, the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center lost radar and communications for around two hours. The outage disrupted more than 1,100 flights across the center's 330,000 square mile, nine-state airspace sector. Two days earlier, on August 4th, President Donald Trump departed t...
Fairphone’s latest repairable phone is going on sale in the US
The Fairphone 6 Plus is the first Fairphone to officially launch in the US. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge The Fairphone 6 Plus is a minor hardware refresh, but a major launch for the company: It's the first phone that Fairphone is selling directly in the US. It's on sale now for $649.99,...
Expand your NAS with a third off this Seagate 8TB IronWolf HDD — 32% discount in Best Buy's 60th Anniversary sale
Save $167 on an 8TB Seagate IronWolf HDD at Best Buy in their 60th Anniversary sales event.
Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment
Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps
CISA: Windows Task Host flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that ransomware gangs are also exploiting a high-severity Windows Task Host vulnerability that was flagged as actively exploited in April. [...]
Best Buy has slashed $1,350 off this 'outstanding' OLED RTX 5080 laptop — 16-inch Lenovo Legion Pro 7i features a 24-core Arrow Lake CPU and 32GB of DDR5 RAM
Get $1,350 off this Lenovo Legion Pro 7i with RTX 5080.
Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does
404 Media placed an AirTag inside a shipment of 1,000 books, which landed at an Amazon facility that reportedly spends all day cutting the spine off of, and scanning, books.
Exclusive: You Can Finally Buy a Fairphone—a Sustainable, Repairable Smartphone—in the US
More than a decade after launching in Europe, the Netherlands company is now selling its repairable phones in the US, starting with the Fairphone (Gen 6+).
Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To
Proton’s CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?
Einride strikes deal to add 500 Tesla Semis to its fleet
Einride will buy the Tesla Semis, which will be made to Amazon and other customers.
Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auction-because-ai/5288962 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343559 Points: 95 # Comments: 48
China reportedly orders state agencies to uninstall its government-only edition of Windows 10 — Beijing accelerates planned retirement over data security concerns
China's Ministry of State Security has told some state-linked organizations to remove a customized version of Windows 10 from their machines.
We still don’t know how people are really using AI
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a Computer Science PhD candidate...
Apple @ Work Podcast: Agentic networking actions
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Firm test-fires 3D-printed, fully cryogenic reusable rocket engine — Indian startup leverages SLM printing to create its first working prototype
Othisis, an Indian startup that's only been in business for two years, has demonstrated a fully 3D-printed, reusable rocket engine.