Nearly two years old, and my Apple Watch Ultra 2 is still going strong. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways I’ve worn my Ultra 2 almost continuously for two years. It’s been banged, smashed, soaked, baked, and frozen. Apart from a few small superficial scratches, it’s… Continue reading I’ve worn my Apple Watch Ultra for 2 years – here’s what it looks like now
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The best data removal services of 2025: Delete yourself from the internet
It’s impossible to prevent all of your data from being harvested, traded, and sold by third parties, especially considering the amount of time we spend online and the numerous digital services that collect our information by default. That’s not to say you can’t rise up against data brokers storing, sharing, and selling your data. You… Continue reading The best data removal services of 2025: Delete yourself from the internet
The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags
xAI’s track record with safety is concerning, Senator Elizabeth Warren says in letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. xAI’s track record with safety is concerning, Senator Elizabeth Warren says in letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. by Hayden Field Sep 10, 2025, 11:00 AM UTC Hayden Field is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI… Continue reading The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags
GM, EVgo, and Pilot hit 200+ charging sites across 40 states
Photo: EVgo General Motors (GM), EVgo, and Pilot Co. just hit a milestone: their joint EV charging network can now be found at more than 200 locations across nearly 40 states. They’ve rolled out almost 850 new fast-charging stalls in just over two years. Less than a year ago, it spanned 25 states; now it… Continue reading GM, EVgo, and Pilot hit 200+ charging sites across 40 states
As AI Reigns, Students’ Math and Reading Scores Just Hit an All-Time Low
The US Education Department, which the Trump administration is actively attempting to dismantle, has released the latest math and reading test scores for American high-school seniors — and they’re an absolute disaster. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the scores have hit an all-time low, even by America’s historically underwhelming standards. It’s a worrying sign… Continue reading As AI Reigns, Students’ Math and Reading Scores Just Hit an All-Time Low
GPT-5 Is Making Huge Factual Errors, Users Say
It’s been just over a month since OpenAI dropped its long-awaited GPT-5 large language model (LLM) — and it hasn’t stopped spewing an astonishing amount of strange falsehoods since then. From the AI experts at the Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Artificial Intelligence and irked Redditors on r/ChatGPTPro, to even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman… Continue reading GPT-5 Is Making Huge Factual Errors, Users Say
Tesla Admits That Its Cars May Never Fully Drive Themselves
Tesla has quietly changed how it defines “Full Self-Driving,” Electrek reports, in a way that awfully sounds like it’s giving up on CEO Elon Musk’s perennially pushed-back promise that its cars will actually drive themselves without human help. The change comes in a document outlining a potential and absolutely ludicrous $1 trillion compensation package for… Continue reading Tesla Admits That Its Cars May Never Fully Drive Themselves
Tesla is seeking permits to offer ride-hail services at Silicon Valley airports
Tesla has asked the San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland airports about acquiring permits to operate a ride-hailing service at each location, according to Politico. Tesla appears to have contacted each airport right around the time it started up a nascent charter service in California in late July. In the case of the San Francisco… Continue reading Tesla is seeking permits to offer ride-hail services at Silicon Valley airports
The Man Who Proposed Simulation Theory Has a Dire Warning
More than 20 years ago, futurist intellectual Nick Bostrom upended the psyches of tech bros the world around when he proposed in a 2003 Philosophical Quarterly paper that we all may be living in a computer simulation. Beloved by such strange bedfellows as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Sam Altman, Bostrom has released two other influential missives… Continue reading The Man Who Proposed Simulation Theory Has a Dire Warning
No Man’s Sky Players Are Competing to Create the Goofiest Spaceships Imaginable
Procedurally-generated open exploration game No Man’s Sky recently got one of its biggest updates ever, a whopping nine years after it was first launched, allowing players to customize their own spaceships to a baffling level of detail — and the resulting creativity is truly out of this world. The “Voyagers” update, which rolled out late… Continue reading No Man’s Sky Players Are Competing to Create the Goofiest Spaceships Imaginable