There is concern that subscribers might be negatively affected if Netflix acquires Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming and movie studios businesses. One of the biggest fears is that the merger would lead to higher prices due to less competition for Netflix. During a US Senate hearing Tuesday, Netflix co-CEO Ted... Read more

Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup positioning itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI, released a pair of speech-to-text models on Wednesday that the company says can transcribe audio faster, more accurately, and far more cheaply than anything else on the market — all while running entirely on a smartphone or... Read more

Russian-state hackers wasted no time exploiting a critical Microsoft Office vulnerability that allowed them to compromise the devices inside diplomatic, maritime, and transport organizations in more than half a dozen countries, researchers said Wednesday. The threat group, tracked under names including APT28, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Forest Blizzard, and Sofacy,... Read more

PointsBet has begun the registration process to operate in Alberta’s iGaming market As a result of the announcement, PointsBet can now begin the process of setting up its digital stall across the province and fire up its marketing efforts to sway a new crowd of potential bettors. The green... Read more

Health care technology company Abbott has recalled certain FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus continuous glucose monitoring systems because the sensors are displaying incorrect glucose readings that are lower than the body’s actual levels. This could lead to diabetic users making the wrong treatment decisions. As of... Read more

Some children affected by measles in the ongoing South Carolina outbreak have developed a serious complication of the disease called encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, state epidemiologist Linda Bell said on Wednesday. The South Carolina measles outbreak began in October with a handful of infections. As of February... Read more

Today’s LLMs excel at reasoning, but can still struggle with context. This is particularly true in real-time ordering systems like Instacart.  Instacart CTO Anirban Kundu calls it the "brownie recipe problem." It's not as simple as telling an LLM ‘I want to make brownies.’ To be truly assistive when... Read more

The Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) has filed a civil enforcement action against cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to restrict what the regulator calls unlicensed wagering in violation of state law. The injunctive action was filed in the District Court for Carson City against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulated... Read more

Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNET/Google Google’s Pixel 10A will debut on Feb. 18, with the company confirming the announcement via a YouTube video posted Wednesday. This marks a much earlier debut for Google’s lower-cost Pixel series, and likely means the phone will arrive just ahead of Samsung’s Galaxy S26 line. The less-expensive A... Read more

If the words “sleeper sofa” still conjure images of a musty, squeaky, lumpy pull-out mattress with the thickness and support of a peanut butter sandwich, you may want to take a look at what’s been going on in the world of convertible furniture lately. Modern-day sleeper sofas now come... Read more