Radar Trends to Watch: January 2025 – O’Reilly

Radar Trends to Watch: January 2025 – O’Reilly

Despite its 31 days, December is a short month. It’s hard for announcements and happenings other than office parties to get attention. Fighting this trend, OpenAI made a series of announcements: their “12 Days of OpenAI.” Not to be upstaged, Google responded with a flurry of announcements, including their Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model. Models … Read more

Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad

Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad

Parents, students, teachers, and administrators throughout North America are smarting from what could be the biggest data breach of 2025: an intrusion into the network of a cloud-based service storing detailed data of millions of pupils and school personnel. The hack, which came to light earlier this month, hit PowerSchool, a Folsom, California, firm that … Read more

7 most anticipated animated movies of 2025, ranked

7 most anticipated animated movies of 2025, ranked

Table of Contents Table of Contents 7. Animal Farm (TBD 2025) 6. Wildwood (TBD 2025) 5. Dog Man (January 31, 2025) 4. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (February 28, 2025) 3. The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants (December 19, 2025) 2. Elio (June 13, 2025) 1. Zootopia 2 (November 26, … Read more

How Smart Home Tech Can Help You Support an Elderly Relative Remotely

How Smart Home Tech Can Help You Support an Elderly Relative Remotely

Summary Always start with a discussion before you install smart home tech, as both sides need to be comfortable with the setup. Smart locks and doorbells can provide a great deal of peace of mind. Other smart home tech that can help includes motion-activated lighting, smart speakers for reminders, emergency call buttons, and water leak … Read more

Sentient AI: The Risks and Ethical Implications

Sentient AI: The Risks and Ethical Implications

When AI researchers talk about the risks of advanced AI, they’re typically either talking about immediate risks, like algorithmic bias and misinformation, or existential risks, as in the danger that superintelligent AI will rise up and end the human species. Philosopher Jonathan Birch, a professor at the London School of Economics, sees different risks. He’s … Read more

ChatGPT down as thousands report issues worldwide

ChatGPT down as thousands report issues worldwide

Thousands of people have reported they are unable to use the world’s best-known artificial intelligence (AI) tool, ChatGPT Downdetector, which tracks website outages, showed more than 10,000 people reported the AI chatbot, which is made by OpenAI, was not working in the UK on Thursday. Users attempting to use it were met with a message … Read more

Surgent Studios partners with Pocketpair for 2025 horror game

Surgent Studios partners with Pocketpair for 2025 horror game

Surgent Studios, the maker of Tales of Kenzera: Zau, is partnering with Pocketpair Publishing, the newly founded publishing wing of Pocketpair (Palworld, Craftopia) to create a horror game for release in 2025. Surgent continues conversations with potential partners around Project Uso (revealed in October 2024) and other projects set in the Tales of Kenzera universe. But this … Read more

This discounted robot vacuum conquered the toughest room in my home

This discounted robot vacuum conquered the toughest room in my home

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Dreame L40 Ultra is a high-end robot vacuum and mop available for $1,500, though you can get it for $1,200 with a $300 discount This Dreame robot vacuum doesn’t disappoint in performance It has strong suction power, thorough cleaning capabilities, an extendable side brush and mop pad to clean corners and … Read more

How to watch the latest Xbox Developer Direct showcase

How to watch the latest Xbox Developer Direct showcase

Xbox is hosting its Developer Direct showcase today, and you’ll be able to watch along live on YouTube, Twitch or our handy embed below. The stream starts as 1PM ET / 10AM PT and is supposed to feature updates from the developers of South of Midnight, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Doom: The Dark Ages. Xbox … Read more