Grimes said in a tweet Thursday that she and Musk have split. Getty Grimes and Elon Musk secretly welcomed a new baby girl, Y, via surrogate in December. A Vanity Fair profile of the musician published Thursday broke the news. The full name of the child, the pair’s second,... Read more

For decades now, Vladimir Putin has slowly, carefully, and stealthily curated online and offline networks of influence. These efforts have borne lucrative fruit, helping Russia become far more influential than a country so corrupt and institutionally fragile had any right to be. The Kremlin and its proxies had economic... Read more

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit live now! Watch here. Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. Universal code search platform Sourcegraph today announced Code Insights, an analytics tool designed to give developers and engineering leads a fuller view of their codebase. Founded... Read more

Sci-fi stars Zoe Saldana and Ryan Reynolds take aim in Netflix movie The Adam Project. Doane Gregory/Netflix The Adam Project is about a guy time-traveling back to meet himself as a kid, which is perfect because it’s basically a trip back to the family adventures of the 1980s. Free Guy and... Read more

I’ve been testing smartphones for more than six years. Almost always, the new phone runs a bit better than the old one. Battery life can vary—last year’s phone might last a smidge longer than the new model. But performance? Clash Royale and Instagram are almost guaranteed to run a... Read more

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit live now! Watch here. Threat intelligence vendor Cybersixgill aims to bring enhanced data collection capabilities this year to its products, which leverage machine learning (ML) and automation to pinpoint “early signals” of cyber threats via sources such as the dark... Read more

Dan Ackerman/CNET Apple’s “Peek Performance” event came and went, and there was no MacBook Pro in sight. Despite speculation pointing to a possible March reveal for the high-powered laptop, Apple unwrapped the Mac Studio and Studio Display on Tuesday instead. (We got a new iPad Air and iPhone SE,... Read more

Elden Ring is the front-runner for 2022’s game of the year. Reviewers are fawning over it. It’s the title the entire gaming community is talking about and that everyone wants to play. The hype sounds like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild all over again, and that... Read more

Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) took off in 2021, and Nonfungible.com is reporting that NFT game sales hit $5.17 billion during the year. L’Atelier BNP Paribas and NonFungible.com released a report about the entire NFT market, and they said the larger NFT sales for all markets hit $17.6 billion in 2021,... Read more

General Motors and Pacific Gas and Electric this week announced a joint pilot program to test ways GM’s electric vehicles could help the California utility’s customers keep the lights on, either by providing backup power to homes during blackouts or feeding energy back into the grid when demand is... Read more