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Pokémon Presents announced for February 27th: Predictions, rumors, and more

CheckMag As usual, the presentation will be available live on YouTube. Predictions around potential upcoming projects, details surrounding 2024's Game Freak "Teraleak", and more are covered in this article.

Sasha (Tristan) Mathews, 21 Feb 2025 02:03

A redditor managed to purchase a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti from a retailer almost two days before release. (Image source: Reddit)

GeForce RTX 5070 Ti for $1000: Buyer manages to purchase AIB card before launch

Gamers have had to endure a plethora of difficulties in recent months. Those holding out for an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti will reportedly have to deal with similar supply shortages that we witnessed with the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090...

Sambit Saha, 18 Feb 2025 19:19

Gemma from Monster Hunter Wilds (Image source: Capcom)

Monster Hunter Wilds Gemma giveaway awarding free armor shards after release date

Upgrading gear can be a grind in Monster Hunter games. Fortunately, Smithy Gemma is hosting a contest to hand out up to 100 armor shards per hunter. Players must repeatedly share a hashtag on X to receive the shards after the Mons...

Adam Corsetti, 17 Feb 2025 16:47

Sam Altman details OpenAI's AI LLM roadmap. (Image source: OpenAI)

Sam Altman tweets OpenAI's AI LLM roadmap including GPT-5

The current CEO has laid out the roadmap for OpenAI's AI LLM development for GPT-4.5 and GPT 5, with the goal of simplifying model selection for users and developers.

David Chien, 13 Feb 2025 07:16

On February 12, NASA will broadcast live from the ISS for the first time. (Image source: DallE3)

NASA’s first-ever Twitch stream to broadcast live from the ISS

Next week, NASA will host its first-ever Twitch livestream from the ISS, aiming to spark interest in space exploration among a young, tech-savvy audience.

Marius Müller, 07 Feb 2025 19:38

The Hero. (Image source: GoPro)

GoPro's budget Hero action cam upgrades to 4:3 4K video and SuperView Digital Lens

GoPro has announced that the "smallest and lightest" of its action camera line-up is now also capable of its widest-angle recording thanks to a new software update that confers a potentially vital crop setting on its 4K video menu...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 30 Jan 2025 18:22

Facebook posts referencing Linux get banned for cybersecurity risks

Facebook censors Linux posts, calls FOSS project "cybersecurity threat" with mysterious inconsistency

Facebook's parent company, Meta, has blocked posts mentioning Linux, citing cybersecurity concerns. Meta confirmed after manual review that Linux is on the list of cybersecurity-related topics, and it will seemingly remain so unti...

Julian van der Merwe, 29 Jan 2025 06:12

Fediverse on Kickstarter. (Image source: Kickstarter)

Pixelfed, Loops and Sup: Alternatives to Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp launch crowdfunding campaign

Pixelfed, Loops and Sup - open source alternatives to conventional social media - are taking off. Having just launched a Kickstarter campaign, these platforms aim to counter the negative dynamics of conventional social media by p...

Marc Herter, 28 Jan 2025 00:02

Bluesky adds a video tab to profiles as its user count explodes

Bluesky is capitalizing on a growth opportunity by offering more new features. The social media network's new video tab organizes the media its members share. Still, users have plenty of suggestions for improving Bluesky further.

Adam Corsetti, 27 Jan 2025 22:38

Presidential executive order blocks TikTok ban enforcement for a period of 75 days. (Image source: TikTok)

President Trump signs executive order temporarily blocking enforcement of TikTok ban by attorney general

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order blocking the enforcement of the TikTok ban by the United States for a period of 75 days.

David Chien, 21 Jan 2025 04:16

Supreme Court upholds law to ban TikTok from the US in the interest of national security. (Image source: TikTok)

Update | US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban

The US Supreme Court upheld a law signed into power in March 2024, requiring TikTok sell its US operations to an American buyer or leave the US market. Millions of US TikTok users potentially face a blackout on Sunday, January 19....

David Chien, 19 Jan 2025 05:12

Apple has paused AI notification summaries

Apple pulls AI news summaries after inaccuracies reach tipping point

Apple has paused its AI-generated news alert summaries after the feature delivered some very questionable results. AI news summaries will, however, be back in a few weeks with tweaks to communicate when an alert summary is AI-gene...

Julian van der Merwe, 17 Jan 2025 01:15

The M4 Mac mini has abandoned USB-A ports for a USB-C-only solution. (Image source: Apple)

Apple M4 Mac mini users are reporting problems with USB-C connectivity

While the Apple Mac mini is an incredible little computer, it is not immune to issues. A recent report by AppleInsider has discovered a plethora of users complaining about reliability with USB-C connections, although the culprit i...

Sambit Saha, 16 Jan 2025 19:19

Panasonic Lumix S9 kit amazon deal

Deal | Panasonic Lumix S9 compact full-frame hybrid camera gets substantial Amazon discount with kit lens

The somewhat controversial Panasonic Lumix S9 has received a 22% discount on Amazon, making it a solid option for entry-level photographers or video shooters looking for a smallish camera to carry around that doesn't compromise on...

Julian van der Merwe, 16 Jan 2025 18:27

Age-restricted social media access legislation push in Indonesia (Image source: Generated using DALL·E 3)

Social media age restrictions coming to Indonesia

Social media age restrictions are coming to Indonesia as soon as possible, according to the country's officials. This temporary measure aims to protect children while the government is working on a law to set a minimum age for usi...

Codrut Nistor, 16 Jan 2025 14:38

Deception via AI and a sick Brad Pitt. (Image source @TheOscarRace on X)

French woman defrauded of $850k in romance scam

A French woman has fallen victim to a perfidious love scam in which AI-generated images of Hollywood star Brad Pitt were used to gain her trust. Over a period of two years, perpetrators posing as Brad Pitt stole around the equival...

Marc Herter, 16 Jan 2025 00:41

United States TikTok ban coming soon (Image source: Generated using DALL·E 3)

TikTok ready to pull the plug in the US this Sunday

ByteDance Ltd. may ban TikTok users in the US from using the app starting this Sunday, as the company still hasn't found a buyer. However, there is a chance of someone like Elon Musk stepping in at the last minute to keep the soci...

Codrut Nistor, 15 Jan 2025 11:17

Chinese officials consider Elon Musk as potential TikTok US buyer amid ban concerns (Image source: Solen Feyissa, Unsplash)

TikTok's US future: China considers Elon Musk as potential buyer

Amid TikTok's looming US ban, Chinese officials are considering Elon Musk's X as a potential buyer for the platform's US operations, valued at up to $50 billion. The move could merge TikTok's 170 million American users with X whil...

Nathan Ali, 14 Jan 2025 13:19

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i sports an incredible 98% screen-to-body ratio. (Image source: Dave2D)

Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i with under-display camera: Excellent design let down by abysmal camera performance

Not all that glitters is gold - Lenovo's stunning new Yoga Slim 9i laptop sports an excellent design, great performance, and a truly jaw-dropping display. However, the laptop suffers from a major flaw that may scare away a sizable...

Sambit Saha, 09 Jan 2025 17:47

European Commission censorship as imagined by AI (Image source: Generated using DALL·E 3)

The European Commission fires back at Meta and refutes any claims of censorship

After going through its biggest policy change since 2016, scaling back fact-checking partnerships and automated content removal, Meta aims to fight EU censorship. However, while Mark Zuckerberg claims that the EU data laws censor ...

Codrut Nistor, 09 Jan 2025 12:48

Meta overhauls content moderation, suspends fact-checking program in the US (Image source: Meta)

Meta removes fact-checking program and reduces content moderation

Meta has announced sweeping changes to content moderation across its platforms, including scaling back fact-checking partnerships and automated content removal. The company is also introducing community notes, marking its biggest ...

Nathan Ali, 08 Jan 2025 14:09

Telegram adds a third-party verification method and more in new update (Image Source: Telegram)

Telegram adds a third-party verification method and more in new update

Telegram's new update introduces a new verification method, the ability to turn gifts into NFTs, an in-app QR code scanner, reactions to service messages, and more.

Rohith Bhaskar, 02 Jan 2025 14:50

Elon Musk considers Wikipedia to be "woke" and calls for a boycott of the online encyclopedia on X. (Image source: Pixabay / Tumisu)

Elon Musk calls Wikipedia 'woke' and urges boycott

Elon Musk, widely recognized for leveraging his media influence to address political issues and stir social debates, has called for a boycott of Wikipedia on X. His criticism stems from a presentation of Wikipedia’s budget, which ...

Marius Müller, 28 Dec 2024 14:42

Asus ROG Strix gaming laptop teased

Asus teases launch date for new Nvidia RTX 5000 ROG Strix laptops with RGB overload

Asus has added an official launch date for its previously-revealed RGB-laden ROG gaming laptops coming to CES 2025. The new ROG laptop will apparently feature an RGB strip all around the lower casing, along with large ROG Strix br...

Julian van der Merwe, 23 Dec 2024 20:59

Danish YouTuber Madskillzzhc completely withdraws from the WoW community due to death threats as a result of his anti-bot activism. (Image source: DallE 3)

WoW content creator receives death threats after bot hunting

Danish YouTuber Madskillzzhc's dedicated fight against bots in World of Warcraft has come to a sudden and alarming halt. After receiving serious death threats and having his personal information exposed, the veteran content creato...

Marius Müller, 21 Dec 2024 13:41

MKBHD crowns Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra as the smartphone of the year. (Image source: MKBHD)

Galaxy S24 Ultra wins MKBHD's smartphone of the year award, iPhone continues to reign supreme in camera performance

Popular YouTube personality Marquess Brownlee, aka MKBHD, has announced the winners of the 2024 edition of his annual smartphone awards. Some of the winners were expected, while others relatively surprising. Regardless, Samsung Ga...

Sambit Saha, 20 Dec 2024 21:41

The Cybercab is undoubtedly futuristic, perhaps even a tad too much. (Image source: Tesla)

Tesla design lead reveals why the Cybercab is yellow in color

Tesla's Cybercab features a plethora of controversial design choices, all the way from its wheels, to its dihedral door mechanism. The company's chief designer has now shed light on the reasoning behind one such aspect of the car ...

Sambit Saha, 20 Dec 2024 21:41

The US Supreme Court will hear TikTok's challenge to country ban (Image Source: TikTok)

The US Supreme Court to hear TikTok's challenge to country ban

TikTok filed an emergency motion earlier this month to delay its looming ban in the US until the Trump government is in office and The Supreme Court could hear its case. The US top court has now agreed to hear TikTok's plea.

Rohith Bhaskar, 19 Dec 2024 13:16

Elon Musk is apparently planning a particularly purist webmailer that could be called "X Mail" and compete with Gamil. (X (formerly Twitter) / Google)

X Mail – Elon Musk talks about simplified Gmail competitor

Rumors about a Gmail alternative from X have been circulating for a while. Recently, Musk hinted in discussions on his social media platform that a webmailer is in the works, designed to be exceptionally minimalist and user-friend...

Marius Müller, 18 Dec 2024 14:40

Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service says Russia targeted elections with cyberattacks (Image Source: Photo by Val Vesa on Unsplash)

Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service says Russia targeted elections with cyberattacks

The Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) has claimed that the annulled presidential elections were the victim of Russian cyberattacks. Russia has denied the claims.

Rohith Bhaskar, 18 Dec 2024 12:27

Meta fined €251 million over 2018 Facebook security breach (Image Source: Timothy Hales Bennett on Unsplash)

Meta fined €251 million over 2018 Facebook security breach

Ireland's Data Protection Commission has fined Meta €251 million for a 2018 Facebook security breach affecting 29 million users. Hackers exploited Facebook's View As feature, which lets users see a public view of their profiles. ...

Rohith Bhaskar, 18 Dec 2024 11:27

BBC says Facebook suppressed news from Palestine outlets (Image Source: Photo by dlxmedia.hu on Unsplash)

BBC says Facebook suppressed news from Palestine outlets

BBC has claimed that Meta purposely increased the moderation of Palestinian user comments on Instagram and Facebook and harmed the ability of Palestinian journalists to reach an audience.

Rohith Bhaskar, 18 Dec 2024 10:11

Apple trials Genmoji on Mac with 15.3 developer beta (Image Source: Apple)

Apple trials Genmoji on Mac with 15.3 developer beta

Apple's new developer beta macOS 15.3 includes Genmoji, which uses AI to create custom emojis. Genmoji can be added to the emoji palette on the keyboard for easier access.

Rohith Bhaskar, 17 Dec 2024 12:26

Pumble was down for about an hour (Image source: Pumble.com w/edits)

Update | Discord alternative Pumble not working for some users

On Sunday, December 15 at 2:10 PM GMT, the business-oriented Pumble messaging/conferencing platform became unresponsive to go dark a short while later. It took Cake about an hour to make Pumble work again. Things appear to be back to normal as of 3:20 PM GMT (07:20 AM CST). Update: Still no word from the company

Sergey Tarasov, 16 Dec 2024 17:46

BYD employees sure do seem interested in the Cybertruck, if the video is anything to go by. (Image source: @ahlnlj)

Cybertruck spotted near BYD facility in China raises reverse-engineering speculation

A Tesla Cybertruck was recently spotted at a BYD facility in China, which has seemingly piqued a lot of people's interest. The Cybertruck has been nothing short of a lightning rod for debate, but there is no denying that the EV is...

Sambit Saha, 13 Dec 2024 18:04

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X is a beastly 16-core Zen 5 CPU, cooling which is no small task. (Image source: Bilibili)

Passively cooled AMD Ryzen 9 9950X hovers at 95 degrees without any performance drop, but there is a catch

Asus recently shared a video demonstrating its ProArt PA401 case, featuring a Ryzen 9 9950X CPU cooled passively using a Noctua NH-P1 cooler. The system managed to run without any noticeable performance downgrades, although there ...

Sambit Saha, 12 Dec 2024 20:51

BMW's social media account deleted it's praise for Tesla's FSD after Tesla playfully replied to the same. (Image source: Tesla - Edited)

BMW calls Tesla's FSD V13.2 'very impressive' - and then deletes its tweet

On X/Twitter, BMW's social media account briefly called Tesla’s FSD v13.2 'very impressive' in a now-deleted tweet. Tesla responded playfully, but was this a mistake or just plain old competitive rivalry?

Anubhav Sharma, 11 Dec 2024 18:55

TikTok files an emergency injunction against the US ban (Image Source: Photo by visuals on Unsplash)

TikTok files an emergency injunction against the US ban

TikTok has announced that it has filed an emergency injunction to delay the upcoming US ban in January 2025. The social media platform lost an appeal that sought to block the bill that demanded ByteDance sell the platform or face ...

Rohith Bhaskar, 10 Dec 2024 10:19

California wants mental health warning labels on social media platforms (Image Source: Generated with Dall-E 3)

California wants mental health warning labels on social media platforms

A new assembly bill has proposed legislation mandating mental health warning labels on social media platforms. The bill, AB 56, will require social media platforms to disclose the mental risks to people who spend more than three h...

Rohith Bhaskar, 10 Dec 2024 08:51

The free version is powered by Grok-2 model. (Image Source: X / Kristen Spradlin)

X users can now try out Grok AI assistant for free

You can now try out Grok without subscribing to X Premium. The free version is powered by Grok-2 model and lets users ask up to 10 queries per 2 hours.

Kristen Spradlin, 08 Dec 2024 18:28

Australia's under 16 social media ban confirmed for late 2025 (Image source: Generated using DALL·E 3)

No more social media for Australians under 16 starting in late 2025

Instagram, X, Snapchat, Facebook, and other key players in the social media market will be affected starting at the end of next year, when teenagers younger than 16 will not be allowed to use this kind of online platform. The comp...

Codrut Nistor, 29 Nov 2024 00:01

Google and Meta think the Australian social media bill should be delayed (Image Source: Generated with Dall-E 3)

Google and Meta think the Australian social media bill should be delayed

Google and Meta have urged the Australian government to wait for a trial for the proposed age-verification systems in their social media bill. The controversial bill proposes stringent age-verification systems that may include bio...

Rohith Bhaskar, 26 Nov 2024 10:29

No show, no fine; Elon Musk escapes SEC's Twitter buyout investigation sanctions (Image source: Cocuzo on Wallpapers.com)

Elon Musk escapes sanctions as US judge rejects SEC request

A US judge ruled against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which sought to sanction Elon Musk. The SEC went to court after Musk missed his testimony for the regulator's investigation into X's (formerly Twitter) buyo...

David Odejide, 23 Nov 2024 17:16

Bluesky says it won't train AI on user content (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Bluesky says it won't train AI on user content

Bluesky, the Twitter/X alternative that has seen a surge in users following the US election, says it won't train its AI model on user content. The social media platform said it used AI for content moderation.

Rohith Bhaskar, 16 Nov 2024 08:34

TikTok Symphony Creative Studio now available to all advertisers. (Image source: TikTok)

TikTok opens Symphony Creative Studio access to all advertisers

Symphony Creative Studio users can create AI-generated videos and avatars with ease by simply providing raw video clips or speech scripts. The tool can also translate videos into multiple languages with AI-voice cloning to reach t...

David Chien, 16 Nov 2024 08:18

Brad “Cafrozed” Dennis, the PI who was tracking down the person responsible, acted as a vengeful ex-husband online to infilitrate Discord servers and Telegram groups. (Image source: Konstantin Savusia/Shutterstock)

Teen could face decades in prison as FBI cracks massive swatting operation via Discord, Telegram, and YouTube

An 18-year-old from California, US has pleaded guilty to a nationwide swatting operation involving over 375 fake bomb and shooting threats. The FBI used digital evidence from platforms like Telegram and Discord to track him down.

Anubhav Sharma, 14 Nov 2024 19:28

Threads to get ads in early 2025 (Image source: Meta)

The party's over: Ads allegedly coming to Threads in 2025

With 100 million users in less than a week since its introduction, Threads became the fastest-growing consumer app, surpassing ChatGPT, the previous record holder. Now on its way to reach 300 million users, Instagram's sibling is ...

Codrut Nistor, 14 Nov 2024 18:56

X rivals Threads and Bluesky see an influx of US users after election night (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)

X rivals Threads and Bluesky see an influx of US users after election night

Threads and Bluesky have become the new harbor for US citizens fed up with Elon Musk's X. The social media platform's increasingly right-wing stance has driven many users from the platform to alternatives.

Rohith Bhaskar, 12 Nov 2024 09:42

A free version of X's Grok is available in certain regions (Image Source: x.AI)

A free version of X's Grok is now available in certain regions

A free version of X's Grok chatbot is being tested in select few countries. Several users have reported that your X account has to be at least seven days old, and there has to be a phone number linked to access the chatbot.

Rohith Bhaskar, 12 Nov 2024 08:46

The ultimate electric dedan face-off: $250,000 Lucid Air takes on $111,000 Tesla Model S Plaid. (Image source: Edmunds Cars via YouTube)

Tesla Model S Plaid gets crushed by Lucid Air Sapphire in U-styled drag race

Tesla's Model S Plaid is quite the beast when it comes to electric sedans, handily defeating gas-powered supercars in drag races. However, is it good enough to keep up with Lucid's $250,000 Air Sapphire? Edmunds Cars attempts to f...

Sambit Saha, 11 Nov 2024 19:49

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