A high-stakes summit between US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday appeared to get off to a good start as the two touted the bilateral relationship and pledged to work cooperatively on trade, stabilising the global energy market and regional security. Takaichi was the first US ally to meet face…
For almost two hours last week, Meta employees had unauthorized access to company and user data thanks to an AI agent that gave an employee inaccurate technical advice, as previously reported by The Information. Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton said in a statement to The Verge that “no user data was mishandled” during the incident. A…
Microsoft’s Xbox console strategy needs work, but its Bluetooth-ready controller that shipped alongside the Xbox Series X and Series S is fantastic. We think it’s one of the best Xbox controllers out there, thanks to its comfortable design, multiplatform compatibility (it works great on the Steam Deck and PC, too), and its textured grips and…
These past few weeks have been particularly brutal for the EV industry — and anyone who believes that electric vehicles are the future. Thanks to slowing demand and policy whiplashes, automakers are on an EV murder spree, killing a host of promising new models. The EV graveyard grows bigger by the minute. And unfortunately, as…
ThePentagonreportedly wants Congress to approve more than $200 billion in supplemental funding for US President Donald Trump’s unauthorized and deeply unpopular war on Iran as the administration weighs deploying thousands of additional troops to the Middle East, signaling a drawn-out conflict and a possible ground invasion. TheWashington Postreportedlate Wednesday that the Pentagon has asked theWhite…
In the fifth year of Myanmar’s civil war, a curious pattern has emerged in the opinion pages of Western publications. Well-crafted essays in Forbes, The Hill, The Washington Times, and Modern Diplomacy have begun arguing, with varying degrees of sophistication, that the United States should rethink its approach to Myanmar’s military regime. The arguments differ…
Despite years of effort by the Air Force to get rid of the A-10 fleet, the A-10 is playing a major role in the Iran war. Unlike its predecessors used in the Iraq wars, the A-10 has been reborn with new equipment and better weapons, and significantly enhanced networking capabilities, plus embedded artificial intelligence to…
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison has said it will pursue “all available legal remedies” through both national and international proceedings to resolve a dispute over its two Panama Canal ports seized by authorities in February. Amid the widening conflict in the Middle East which could further complicate its multibillion-dollar global ports sale, the company downplayed…
