The National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG), the national organization, no longer has control of the 1-800-GAMBLER gambling addiction hotline, as a New Jersey organization will now operate it. This comes after a legal battle has ensued, with New Jersey Superior Court Judge Douglas H. Hurd having ordered the... Read more

We probably all know someone that’s planning to dress up as someone from KPop Demon Hunters this year, because why wouldn’t they? The smash Netflix hit has been on TVs and Bluetooth speakers ever since it launched, and we’re not expecting that to stop. Especially those of us with... Read more

Anthropic is prepared to repurpose conversations users have with its Claude chatbot as training data for its large language models—unless those users opt out. Previously, the company did not train its generative AI models on user chats. When Anthropic’s privacy policy updates on October 8 to start allowing for... Read more

A 37-year-old man who lives in a town in Scotland has been jailed for two and a half years after he ‘hijacked’ 68 people’s identities to claim almost £170,000 (roughly $228,000 in USD) while going through gambling addiction. The man, James Stephen Barley, was arrested on February 8 of... Read more

The 2025 LG G5 television appeared at CES in January. James Martin/CNET Screen size: OLEDs are available in sizes from 40 inches to 97 inches, and there are probably even bigger TVs coming in the future. One of the best pieces of advice we can give is, if you... Read more

It’s important to note that this was all tested on the X2 Elite Extreme configuration, which comes with six additional CPU cores over the standard X2 Elite. There were no X2 Elite systems to test, so we don’t know what those multi-core scores will be. I’ve been told that... Read more

Kalshi, the leading North American prediction market, argues that the location of placed bets does not contradict the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA). The outcome betting provider has been involved in courtroom battles with the Blue Lake Rancheria, Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians, and Chicken Ranch Rancheria of... Read more

The so-called scratchgate fiasco may have drummed up a lot of attention since Apple released its latest iPhones, but I’ve been struggling with a different issue.  Over the last several weeks, my iPhone Air has had trouble placing and receiving calls, and there have been periods in which I’ve completely... Read more

OpenAI is preparing to launch a stand-alone app for its video generation AI model Sora 2, WIRED has learned. The app, which features a vertical video feed with swipe-to-scroll navigation, appears to closely resemble TikTok—except all of the content is AI-generated. There’s a For You–style page powered by a... Read more

Claude 4.5 is available everywhere today. Through the API, the model maintains the same pricing as Claude Sonnet 4, at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. Developers can access it through the Claude API using “claude-sonnet-4-5” as the model identifier. Other new features Some... Read more