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If AIs are trained on content produced by themselves (or other AIs), they can eventually "collapse," losing the ability to identify edge cases, reinforcing their own errors, and finally spouting gibberish.

But opinions vary on whether that's an imminent problem in the real world, or something that only happens under lab-based stress testing.

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SpaceX stock took off like a rocket after its IPO last week, but already shows signs of running out of fuel. It's still up significantly from its opening price, but the trend this week has been negative.

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Mina the Hollower sold half a million copies in its first week. It's hard not to take that as a rejection of technology-driven trends in gaming. Could games be headed for a modernist reckoning along the lines of what visual art experienced in the 19th century?

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The tech giants that already dominate the smartphone market naturally see smart glasses as an extension of their existing products. Yet Snap, which makes the high-end Specs, sees things differently. Its glasses are priced like a computer and are aimed at a post-smartphone world in which wearables displace the brick in your pocket.

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The ability of neutrinos to transform from one type (or flavor) to another is a 21st-century physics discovery. Even more recent is the discovery that they can do this very rapidly during stellar explosions, which in turn makes the smaller such explosions bigger, while mitigating the larger ones. That has ramifications for what comes out of those explosions... which includes everything you see around you.

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Google has filed a lawsuit against a Chinese group called Outsider Enterprise that it claims has misused its brand and its product in to provide "phishing as a service," using AI to help scammers impersonate legitimate companies and websites.

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Code geeks poking around in the source for the upcoming iOS 27 have found snippets suggesting that Apple devices may start sending precautionary warnings to users who spend too much time interacting with the onboard digital assistant, reminding them that Siri is "not a person."

Siri herself was not available for comment.

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As video game cheats become more sophisticated, the measures to counter them grow more intrusive. At what point does it become no longer worth it to allow game companies to pry into your system's inner workings in the name of game integrity?

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Rumor had it that certain older iPhones would become deprecated with the release of iOS 27, but Apple has announced that's not the case. Any device currently able to run iOS 26 will be compatible with the upgrade. That's good news coming from a company often accused of planned obsolescence.

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AI training efforts have begun running into the problem that site owners are blocking their crawlers. Now, at least one developer of third-party smart TV apps is offering a workaround: borrowing the residential IPs of users who've opted in to allowing their TV to serve as a proxy node, disguising the real source of the crawler traffic.

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Nintendo has settled for €35 million with France's Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control over the infamous "controller drift" issue with the original Switch. Although the company denied any wrongdoing, the regulator maintains that its failure to fix the recurring problems with the Joy-Con amounted to planned obsolescence.

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Meta claims it's taking a thoughtful approach to whether and how it can responsibly deploy facial recognition algorithms on its smart glasses, but an investigation by WIRED revealed that the code is already in place, just not active yet.

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NASA and SpaceX crew on the International Space Station had to evacuate to a SpaceX ship for a few hours last week as their Russian peers addressed an air leak that had suddenly gotten worse.

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The state of Florida has sued OpenAI, alleging that its marketing and its chatbot's persona lead users to place more trust in it than is warranted, while its bias toward agreeing with the user has led it to encourage dangerous or illegal behavior that should have been discouraged.

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Toxicity, bullying, grooming, and radicalization have always been problems for online gaming. However, the size of modern games and rise of voice chat have made moderation ever more difficult. Could AI hold the solution?

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Google has introduced a new caller-verification feature that will alert you if someone is attempting to spoof the number of a caller in your contacts. The catch is that it only works if both the impersonated individual and the intended target are Android users.

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Over a quarter of video gamers are over 50 years old, discrediting the notion that it's entertainment for young people. It's becoming the default option across age groups, much as television once was... but it's far more expensive.

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The catastrophic "anomaly" experienced by the New Glenn rocket last week was as poorly timed as it was dramatic, as NASA and Blue Origin had agreed just two days earlier to a timeline that would have the company making a preliminary delivery of Moon Base equipment this fall.

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Video games have achieved a level of realism and attention to historical detail that their 3D assets are proving to have value outside the game context. Ubisoft is collaborating with museums to build exhibits using models from the Assassin's Creed and Far Cry series.

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AI proponents believe that sufficiently advanced models will advance research in ways that will solve the world's energy crisis. Detractors point out the contradiction inherent in the fact that it's currently making the problem worse. Either way, there is a high-stakes race afoot—will this new technology pay sufficient dividends before it causes irreparable harm to the environment?