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The MacBook Neo is a winner
It was a little surprising to see Apple decide to leap fully into the affordable laptop market, to try and compete with devices the company typically prefers to just look down its …
China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies
Hype around the open source agent is driving people to rent cloud servers and buy AI subscriptions just to try it, creating a windfall for tech companies.…
Live-service games are a mess
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the slow-motion disaster of live-service games, follow Andrew Webster. …
A live-action Samurai Champloo is in the works
Though the live-action Cowboy Bebop was a big disappointment, Shinichirō Watanabe is ready to give it another go with one of his other iconic pieces of IP. Variety reports that Wat…
The twist in the Ticketmaster antitrust fight
A lot of people are mad at Ticketmaster, and have been for a long time. (Did Swifties directly create an antitrust trial? Discuss.) The US government's case against Live Nation-Tic…
One of this rugged phone’s cameras is a pop-out action cam
What if your smartphone's camera wasn't locked to the back of the device? Honor's Robot Phone, which we got to see in action at MWC 2026, features a camera attached to a stabilized…
Anthropic is suing the Department of Defense
Anthropic has sued the US government over its designation as a supply-chain risk, the latest move in a weekslong battle between it and the Pentagon over the acceptable use cases fo…
A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals
A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.…
Yahoo is selling Engadget to Static Media
Engadget, the long-running tech news website, has a new owner. Yahoo sold the publication to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close late…
Why independence is still a political dividing line in Scotland
Whatever the prevailing mood, there seems little prospect of another referendum in the near future.…