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Using your PlayStation to play games is just fine. But what if you could use your Sony console to vibe code with your AI agents on Linux instead? That’s what the ownership advocacy organization Fulu wants to make possible, and it’s willing to pay $10,000 to prove it can be done.Helmed by YouTuber Louis Rossmann and fellow consumer advocate Kevin O’Reilly, Fulu pays bounties to the first person who proves they can fix or bypass product features that Fulu deems to be hostile to device owners. Fulu puts up the first $10,000, then will match donations up to another $10K.…
Yes, 1996-born ‘Zillenial’ Bieber is her usual effortlessly cool self, and yes, the denim is trendy; but that’s not all Gap is selling. The brand has mastered the art of monetizing the “millennial ache”—nostalgia for the pre-algorithm era and the pop culture and fashion that defined it—with ads that nod to its Y2K heyday, fronted by Gen Z favorites like Troye Sivan and Katseye.
President Donald Trump’s much-hyped speech promising huge revelations about interference in the 2020 election failed to deliver. On Thursday night, the president made sweeping claims about interference by China and cover ups by the “deep state,” and repeated debunked claims about noncitizens voting. He pointed to a document drop on the White House website as proof, though the files didn’t contain evidence to back up his assertions.For Trump’s loyal army of followers, this didn’t matter. “This is a grand slam from President Trump,” election denier Patrick Byrne told school shooting conspiracy theorist Alex Jones moments after the speech ended, adding:…
The world is about to see a whole lot more of StarKist’s 65-year-old mascot, the bespectacled, beret-wearing Charlie the Tuna. Tombras is coming on board as the brand’s agency of record, with a key objective to insert Charlie into the cultural conversation “unusual” ways on social media, said Tombras president Dooley Tombras.“There’s a debate in the industry now about whether brand mascots are still a thing. I would argue that if you use them effectively, they’re more powerful than ever,” he said, pointing to successful approaches like Duolingo’s Duo the Owl. While many companies have made headlines for downplaying or removing their…
General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has landed a $400 million loan from Upper90, a tech investment firm. It might be the first deal to put up inference-specific chips as collateral — chips built to run already-trained AI models quickly and efficiently, rather than the more expensive chips used to build the models in the first place. The financing is the latest signal that markets are responding to concerns over the price of AI tools and tokens by turning to infrastructure that runs open-source models more cheaply than the newest LLMs from frontier labs. Founded by CEO Finn Puklowski,…
OK, so technically the best home knife sharpener is probably a set of Shapton stones, plus a knife sharpening class and some diligence. But the best knife is the sharp knife—and that comes from having a knife sharpener you’ll actually use. For me right now, that’s the Tormek T-1, which is the best pull-through knife sharpener I’ve tested. It’s got a cleverly designed jig to keep your knife to the right angle against the diamond sharpening wheel, and a self-wetting (i.e., no lubrication needed) composite honing wheel.That might sound daunting. And it’ll look daunting for about five minutes, then feel…
Athletes spend their entire lives training to accomplish what’s impossible for most. But when it’s time to retire, they often don’t have the skills or connections to break into a professional career. To change that, 72andSunny and The Female Quotient are partnering on an executive apprenticeship program for women athletes attending SHE (Sports, Hospitality and Entertainment) Weekend, a celebration of female athletes who represent the United States at the highest level, hosted by rapper and TV star Flavor Fav. SHE Weekend takes place from July 16 to 19 in Las Vegas, where more than 100 U.S. women athletes will gather at…
Valve claims the Steam Machine can hit “up to 4K at 120 Hz” on supported displays via HDMI 2.0 connections (albeit using AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) upscaling tech, rather than at native resolutions), but the Steam Machine Verified label it will be applying to games on the Steam Store is based on a 1920 x 1080 benchmark.I’ve been testing it on a 55-inch 4K OLED TV and a 27-inch 1080p desktop monitor, both with 120-Hz refresh rates, both using HDMI. I used four games as references: Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, Crimson Desert, Lego Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, and…
Phia, a shopping browser extension that helps people find deals across the web, is in hot water.The buzzy startup, cofounded by Phoebe Gates—daughter of tech billionaire Bill Gates—and Sophia Kianni analyzes shopping prices and recommends discount codes for shoppers across the web. On July 9, Bloomberg reported that the app violated standard practices for affiliate marketing by taking credit for sales it did not drive.Typically, affiliate marketing firms only earn commission if someone clicks one of their own affiliate links and makes a purchase. Instead, Phia reportedly drove fake clicks, linking retailers with its affiliate codes in the background that…
While the rest of the AI industry races to label its work as “AGI” or “superintelligence,” Alexandre LeBrun, the CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, avoids the terms altogether. Lebrun said in an interview with TechCrunch that the company doesn’t use terms like “AGI” or “superintelligence” at all. “We never used the word AGI. And I just noticed that nobody is using it anymore; they switched to superintelligence,” he said. “Next time we’ll switch to something else.” He isn’t sold on the new label either. “There’s no good definition. What is superintelligence? I don’t know. It’s not a…
Only the front of the oven nearest the door, and about an inch from each side wall, cooked a little cooler—about 20 degrees cooler. This is still an impressive result, especially compared to turntable models that don’t even let you use most of the space in your microwave.Just note that with the sensor cook, you can’t cover your food and get the same results. It will interfere with how the microwave senses temperature; i.e., resist the temptation to cover your food unless you’re using the basic timed-cook functions, which also exist. I did in fact manage to nuke an egg…
No shortage of star power this week: Gap taps Hailey Bieber for a denim revival, Patrick Mahomes returns for Coors Light, Succession’s Nicholas Braun directs and stars in Shinola’s first campaign in 15 years, and Liquid I.V. links up with the new Spider-Man movie.Meanwhile, MLS wants to keep soccer excitement going after the World Cup, and Anthropic takes on AI’s hardest questions.Our Most Effective Ad of the Week, in partnership with EDO, gets viewers ready for summer travel.Keep scrolling for the week’s most notable ads.Anthropic | “Hope in Hard Questions” by Mother
Sheryl Sandberg has led a $10 million investment into Self Inspection, a San Diego-based startup that is also backed by former Tesla president Jon McNeill’s DVx Ventures. The startup, founded in 2021, has spent the last few years trying to disrupt the vehicle inspection process by making it possible to properly assess body damage on a car with as little tech as a smartphone camera. Self Inspection told TechCrunch that it has already completed more than 1 million vehicle inspections for rental fleets, automotive finance companies, auctions, and marketplaces, with Stellantis’ financial services arm using the platform for corporate-owned vehicles…
True the Vote, the election denial group responsible for the debunked film 2000 Mules that falsely alleged election fraud in the 2020 election, is preparing to release a new movie. As President Donald Trump continues to threaten the midterms, the new film is set to relitigate the 2020 election, making allegations about systemic election fraud in Black communities—allegations that have already been dismissed by multiple courts.True the Vote appears to be working with Lorenzo Sewell, a pastor from Detroit who spoke at Trump’s inauguration last year. Sewell told WIRED the documentary, which he has not seen yet, is called Trap—”because…
You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week: a $230 mini keyboard. You may not have heard that alongside this “command center for agentic work,” OpenAI also released a ChatGPT basketball. “This basketball comes from the Pause. Play. Prompt. campaign, a physical reminder that creativity doesn’t just live on our screens,” the product listing explains. I was not able to find any other mention of the “Pause. Play. Prompt.” campaign on OpenAI’s website, but I gather that this is OpenAI’s way of telling people not to spend all day on Codex. Who says tech…
“Your data is private. Period,” says period tracker Stardust on its website. As new research by Mozilla discovered, some users might find that claim to be a stretch. According to Mozilla’s latest findings examining the privacy practices of period-tracking apps, Stardust was found to be sharing users’ sensitive health information with third-party analytics company RudderStack. This data included the user’s birthdate, birth control type, reproductive goals, and specific symptoms that the user was experiencing, and it tied that record to a unique identifier in place of the person’s name. (The FTC has long warned that this does not make the…