It’s a warm fall afternoon at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. A gentle breeze blows through the meticulously landscaped trees lining the walkways, and a ray of sunshine hits the famed Team Disney building, where 19-foot-tall stone carvings of the seven dwarfs (of Snow White fame) hold up... Read more

Total Wireless, formerly known as Total by Verizon, is a prepaid, no-contract wireless provider with unlimited data covered by the Verizon 5G network. Total Wireless Total 5G Unlimited plan has unlimited data, talk, and text, along with a five-year price guarantee—meaning it won’t get jacked up after a trial... Read more

Salesforce launched a suite of monitoring tools on Thursday designed to solve what has become one of the thorniest problems in corporate artificial intelligence: Once companies deploy AI agents to handle real customer interactions, they often have no idea how those agents are making decisions. The new capabilities, built... Read more

Thousands of Asus routers have been hacked and are under the control of a suspected China-state group that has yet to reveal its intentions for the mass compromise, researchers said. The hacking spree is either primarily or exclusively targeting seven models of Asus routers, all of which are no... Read more

The UK Government has introduced a new code which aims to strengthen protections for players entering prize draw competitions. The introduction was announced on Thursday (November 20), with more than 20 leading operators having signed up to the voluntary code, which will see stronger protections and greater transparency. This... Read more

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a diverse one today. As a Seattle resident, I got a kick out of... Read more

OpenAI employees in San Francisco were told to stay inside the office on Friday afternoon after the company purportedly received a threat from an individual who was previously associated with the Stop AI activist group. “Our information indicates that from StopAI has expressed interest in causing physical harm... Read more

OpenAI has sent out emails notifying API customers that its chatgpt-4o-latest model will be retired from the developer platform in mid-February 2026,. Access to the model is scheduled to end on February 16, 2026, creating a roughly three-month transition period for remaining applications still built on GPT-4o. An OpenAI... Read more

One of the world’s premier security organizations has canceled the results of its annual leadership election after an official lost an encryption key needed to unlock results stored in a verifiable and privacy-preserving voting system. The International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) said Friday that the votes were submitted... Read more

A number of gambling regulators across Europe have agreed to closer cooperation with one another, as a joint institutional declaration has been signed. The intention is to combat illegal gambling activities in the digital environment, with the countries involved to launch an exchange of information and data. Germany, Austria,... Read more