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Attorneys delivered closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial on Thursday in a final attempt to convince a judge and jury that their respective clients, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are the most well-intentioned, truth-telling stewards of OpenAI’s founding nonprofit mission. A judgement could be delivered as soon as next week, ending a decade-long battle between two of the technology industry’s most influential entrepreneurs.But regardless of the outcome, there is a wide set of losers in this case. Based on ample amounts of evidence, it appears that the people worst off are the employees, policy makers, and members of…

Verizon isn’t technically suffering from a total outage, but for many customers experiencing consistently slow service, it might as well be. The glitch is subtle enough to fly under the radar, but persistent enough to be a recurring headache. Sluggish serviceAccording to a surge in complaints, Verizon has been acting up lately. Customers are reporting crawling data speeds and delayed text delivery.I’m not sure what’s going on, but Verizon service has been acting really weird lately. I’m in an area with Ultra Wideband coverage, but websites are still loading super slow or sometimes not loading at all.  R3jr2, Reddit user, May 2026I’m in…

Party Animals is a pretty uncontroversial game. It’s a casual physics sim party game where players brawl as adorable animals while completing Mario Party-like mini-game objectives. After its release in 2023, it received pretty solid reviews, and quite a few players racked up hundreds of hours in it. Its reputation has quickly been torched, however, after the developers promoted possibly the one thing that could set such a dedicated community ablaze: a generative AI contest.  On May 12, the Party Animals Twitter account announced the “Party Animals AI Video Contest,” which encouraged players to share AI-generated videos featuring “positive content…

Perhaps you remember Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, the 34-year-old twin brothers we profiled earlier this week. Although they had the tech chops to commit years of petty crimes (like stealing airline miles), what landed them in truly serious trouble was deleting 96 US government databases in the hour after both were fired last year by the same federal IT contractor, Opexus. (Opexus had just found out that both brothers had previously been in prison for cyberfraud.) The pair come off less as cybercriminal masterminds than as galumphing galoots—that is to say, a pair of bumbling oafs who thought that asking…

Apple and OpenAI have been in an unlikely partnership since the launch of iOS 18 in 2024, with ChatGPT being the only AI tool integrated with Siri. However, that may not have been good enough for the leading AI lab, which is reportedly looking into legal actions against the iPhone maker.OpenAI may bring Apple to court over the ChatGPT integration with SiriApple’s relationship with OpenAI has become strained as the AI startup hasn’t seen the benefits it hoped for from their deal. Because of that, OpenAI lawyers are working with an outside legal firm on possible legal action, according to…

James Ohlen was lead designer on Baldur’s Gate 2 and worked at role-playing game powerhouse BioWare for over 22 years. He left in 2018 to cofound his own studio, Archetype Entertainment, and work on a new sci-fi RPG Exodus that people can’t help but keep comparing to Mass Effect. But he left his new studio before the game shipped under mysterious circumstances last year. He now says the experience “nearly killed me.” “As a creative you care about everything so much, and then as the head of the studio, you have to be cutting the baby in half all the…

Vocal fry, aka “creaky voice,” is a distinctive drop in pitch, usually at the end of sentences, associated with the speech patterns of young women in particular. Britney Spears is the go-to example of the trend, having famously used it in her 1998 smash hit, “Hit Me Baby (One More Time),” and she’s far from the only one. But what if that popular gender-based stereotype is wrong? Jeanne Brown, a graduate student at McGill University, has found that vocal fry is actually more common in men than women, detailing her experimental findings in a talk at this week’s meeting of…

The FCC approval gives Verizon the following spectrum:Up to 25 MHz of cellular spectrum.Up to 20 MHz of AWS-1 spectrum.Up to 10 MHz of AWS-3 spectrum.Up to 20 MHz of PCS spectrum.FCC: Verizon customers will be better off after this deal is approvedWhile approving the deal between Array Digital Infrastructure, UScellular’s new name, and Verizon, the FCC made it clear that consumers will be better off with Verizon owning these airwaves. The FCC said that the transaction will improve Verizon’s “network coverage, capacity and performance, resulting in a stronger ability to meet increasing customer demand and provide a better customer…

Earlier today, photos of a new, unannounced Xbox controller leaked after Brazil’s Anatel regulator accidentally shared images of the yet-to-be-revealed gamepad online. And then, a few hours later, the same regulator leaked images of a different, officially not announced Xbox controller. Whoops. On May 14, Brazilian technology news site Technoblog obtained and posted leaked images of a cloud controller designed specifically to work with Xbox game streaming. The controller is smaller than a normal Xbox gamepad, but includes all the buttons and sticks you’d expect, just arranged in a smaller, cheaper form factor. This is the kind of controller that…

Meta’s decision to track employee keystrokes and mouse data is causing an uproar within the company. “Selfishly, I don’t want my screen scraped because it feels like an invasion of my privacy,” wrote an engineer in an internal post seen by nearly 20,000 coworkers this week. “But zooming out, I don’t want to live in a world where humans—employees or otherwise—are exploited for their training data.”The message aimed to rally support for a petition circulating inside the company since last Thursday that demands an end to what Meta calls the Model Capability Initiative. It’s a piece of mandatory software that…