“18F was the people’s tech shop,” one fired 18F worker tells WIRED. “There’s a giant hole left by the closure of 18F. Requests from across the country for help far outpaced 18F’s capacity before the closure.” Like 18F, the United States Digital Service, which the Trump administration rebranded into DOGE, has seen waves of firings … Read more
I wouldn’t describe my TikTok FYP a spiritual journey — it’s mostly food, sports, Bravo stuff, dogs, and weird internet humor. Yet lately, I’ve noticed a surge of religious comments popping up under some of the more viral TikToks on my feed, and they’re quickly rising to the top. It’s unclear how this started, but … Read more
DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its … Read more
Mobile gaming is a point where mid-range and even a few budget phones can play demanding games at stable framerates without too much of a hassle. That’s a good thing in countries like India, where a mobile phone is often the only screen available. So any headway that can be made to make gaming better … Read more
Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung moved the media player from the notifications shade to the quick settings panel in One UI 7. Following criticism from users, the company has added an option to add media controls to the notification shade in the latest beta update. This new setting does not remove the media … Read more
Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander touched down near the lunar south pole Thursday but may have toppled during landing, jeopardizing its scientific mission. “We’re trying to evaluate exactly what happened in that last bit,” said Tim Crain, Intuitive Machines’ chief technology officer. Data from an inertial measurement unit suggests the 15-foot robotic spacecraft is lying on … Read more
We’re at a crossroads in the US with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Opponents have neutralized the concept by reducing it to a series of letters that can be easily vilified and rooted out by a new generation of government censors. But those who do that are missing the point. Diversity, equity, and inclusion isn’t … Read more
This new research matters because it challenges the prevailing wisdom in AI development, which typically relies on massive pre-training datasets and computationally expensive models. While leading AI companies push toward ever-larger models trained on more extensive datasets, CompressARC suggests intelligence emerging from a fundamentally different principle. “CompressARC’s intelligence emerges not from pretraining, vast datasets, exhaustive … Read more
Apple has increased the thickness of the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro Max compared to the current generation iPhone 16 Pro Max, claims the Chinese leaker known as Ice Universe. Apple is said to have increased the depth of the iPhone 17 Pro Max to 8.725mm, up from 8.25mm on the iPhone 16 Pro Max, which … Read more
After the way Nvidia’s RTX 50-series ended up being called a “paper launch,” many breathed a sigh of relief when AMD’s RX 9000 series appeared on the shelves in much larger quantities. However, once this initial shipment is sold, AMD could face the same problem as the rest of the best graphics cards: Price hikes, … Read more