NewsFeeder

Well, I am, anyway.

The latest ChatGPT caricatures trend has me worried about AI’s access to our private data. It’s one of the many reasons to start using a VPN.

It might be time to back up some files.

Airbnb plans to double down on artificial intelligence to improve its user experience for both guests and hosts. During a fourth-quarter earnings call, Airbnb's CEO, Brian Chesky, said the company is building an "AI-native experience" aimed at helping guests book trips, assisting hosts with their listings, and running the company more efficiently. According to Chesky, there's an AI search tool to help guests book trips that's live for a small percentage of users right now. In a shareholder lette...

In a "down with love" mood? Here are the best anti-romance movies streaming free or available for rental now, from drama to horror to comedy.

"People have been craving this sort of experience, which was offered by Larian and CD Projekt."

Konami giveth, and Konami taketh away.

Disney is going after another generative AI tool, accusing ByteDance and its recently released Seedance 2.0 of using its copyrighted material without permission. As first reported on by Axios, the Walt Disney Company sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming the Chinese company developed its Seedance tool "with a pirated library of Disney's copyrighted characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and other Disney franchises, as if Disney's coveted intellectual property were free public domain ...

One of Star Wars' key themes is romantic tragedy and connection. What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than by ranking Star Wars romances?

Treat me mean, keep me keen.

Need something new for your reading list? Here are two titles we think are worth checking out. This week, we read Aoife Josie Clements' deeply unsettling Persona, and the first issue of Bleeding Hearts, from the relaunch of the DC imprint, Vertigo. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com​/entertainment/what-to-r​ead-this-weekend-the-uns​ettling-new-horror-novel​-persona-185152256.html?​src=rss

UK Discord users have raised concerns about the company's new age verification processes, claiming that while it had originally promised that "video selfies submitted for facial age estimation will never leave a user's device", a change in service provider allegedly now suggests otherwise.

OpenAI's GPT-4o may have survived its first brush with going offline, but it won't be as lucky this time. OpenAI has officially retired GPT-4o, the ChatGPT model that was seen as more conversational and notoriously sycophantic, on February 13. The news of GPT-4o's end was first announced in a post on the OpenAI website in January, but the discontinuation also included GPT-5, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini from ChatGPT. It's not the first time that OpenAI has delisted GPT-4o as an opti...

Star Citizen’s free fly event offers five ships for you to zoom around the massive space MMO in, as its spinoff Squadron 42 nears launch.

Two-player games like Split Fiction and Lego Voyagers are the perfect fit for a cozy weekend

The Crew-12 mission, SpaceX’s 20th human spaceflight, launched at 5:15 AM Eastern on February 13 from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It’s expected to dock with the International Space Station today, February 14, at 3:15 PM, and you can watch the event below as it happens. By the time the mission’s Dragon capsule docks with the ISS, it will have traveled approximately 34 hours since lift off. Inside are NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency’s Sophie Adenot and Roscosmo...

Tomb Raider has a fan-level scene as storied as Quake or Thief.

Sorry if you were hoping to woo Junker Queen or Mauga.

Who’s single, married, and dating in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

Party finder.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 secured five awards at this week's Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' (AIAS) DICE Awards (not to be confused with EA's Stockholm studio of the same name), including the coveted Game of the Year prize, while Sucker Punch's Ghost of Yotei secured three, including for Adventure Game of the Year.

If you love to build and hate having too much free time, Satisfactory is Steam Deck Verified and will burn away the hours wherever you are.

Within hours of co-founder and chief development officer, Hjalmar Vikström, announcing his departure to make "way smaller games", GTFO studio 10 Chambers has undertaken a "significant restructuring of the studio, impacting a large number of roles, including several of the studio's co-founders".

The Silence of the Lambs is just as terrifying on its 35th anniversary as it was when it released on Valentine's Day in 1991

Kanto bright. On 27th February, Pokémon turns 30. That's three whole decades of exploring many and various regions to find monsters, battle monsters, and pocket monsters - and we've all got our personal favourites. And they're not always just our starter, either! Sure, you build up a special relationship with your first Pokémon each generation, but there are usually a half-dozen winners who work their way into your good books as well as your team - and maybe even your heart, assuming you're not ...

A cure for all that ails.

Valve is testing the ability to permit Steam reviewers to include hardware specs in their reviews.

With Overwatch Season 1 underway, Blizzard has brought back its Valentines Day Loverwatch dating sim minigame, but it needs some new faces.

Earlier this month, Anker debuted its new Prime 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station with a launch discount on Amazon. If ordered this week, you can clip the on-page coupon on Amazon to get the accessory for $119.99, down from $149.99. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. The Prime 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station features Qi2.2 support, which lets a compatible MagSafe ‌iP...

The Nintendo Switch 2's latest exclusive Mario Tennis Fever is one of its best, but I'm still on the lookout for the ultimate tennis game.

It's me. I'm the sicko.

And with better DRAM, it would absolutely fly.

Explore Eren and Mikasa’s tragic bond in Attack on Titan, where love is defined by heartbreak and dark devotion.

The great grandaddy of eurojank looks spiffing in its latest trailer.

Apple continued to keep users waiting for new hardware this week, as we've yet to see any of the significant product launches we're expecting to see in the first few months of the year. News on the software side was a bit of a mixed bag this week, with iOS 26.3 and other updates finally seeing their public releases, though they mainly focus on security fixes with only a few user-facing changes. And the highly anticipated iOS 26.4 coming up next might not arrive with everything many users have be...