Plus: AI fakes of the Iran war are flooding X—and Grok is failing to flag them. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the ...

Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library he helps manage. Then things got weird.

When Hellen Obiri broke the tape on Boylston Street to win the 2024 Boston Marathon, she wore a laceless pair of racing shoes that On had rushed to get ready and tested ahead of that year’s Olympic ...

It’s hard to believe how far handheld gaming has come in such a short space of time. It really wasn’t that long ago that the idea of playing a console or desktop-quality game on something you hold in ...

With Japanese animation having become a very big business, the promotional blitz for theatrical anime regularly includes hyping up the movie’s ending theme. It’ll play in the background of the trailer ...

In a major milestone for the "AI coding wars," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed on X that the company's standalone Codex application (currently only for Mac computers) surpassed 1 million downloads in ...

When Amazon announced this week that it’s shutting down Amazon Go, its 8-year-old chain of cashierless convenience stores, the news did not come as a shocker. Almost two years ago, the company ...

Zorin OS has reached an important milestone. The team behind the popular Linux distribution has announced that Zorin OS 18 has surpassed two million downloads, underscoring the growing interest in ...

Protests erupted in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, last Thursday over ongoing water and power cuts, with demonstrations later spreading across the country. Block CEO Jack Dorsey’s decentralized ...

Thousands of Nepalis turned to Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth mesh network messaging app in response to the government’s social media ban, which has since been lifted. Over 48,000 Nepalese people downloaded ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Battlefield 6 open beta begins on August 7, and ahead of that, it's available to preload right now on all platforms. Preloading is a good option ...