Google is supercharging its Gemini assistant on Google TV with new AI tools and practical voice commands. The update lets you create AI videos and images, and finally adjust settings like brightness with your voice.
Flutterwave has acquired open banking infrastructure firm Mono in a move to deepen its alternative payments stack. The deal highlights a strategic shift towards bank-based payments in Africa, even as open banking struggles for awareness in the US.
Microsoft has set a hard stop for several major products in 2026. Support for Windows 11 24H2 and Office 2021 ends on October 13th, 2026, forcing users to upgrade. The niche Windows 11 SE for education is also being discontinued.
A new voice AI company, Kardome, is launching its Cognition AI system at CES. It’s an on-device model designed to work in noisy environments without constant cloud access. The move comes as data shows voice shopping is already popular, especially with younger consumers.
The open-source RADV driver now supports new performance counters for AMD’s upcoming RDNA4 graphics architecture. This gives developers on Linux a crucial head start for profiling and optimization ahead of the hardware’s release.
A new open-source tool called Dockhand is taking aim at Portainer for Docker container management. It promises a less complex interface with better built-in monitoring, all while running in about 150MB of memory. The developer recently released the code, making it a free and transparent option.
KDE’s next big update is on the horizon. Plasma 6.6 is set to fix a common panel crash and, at long last, deliver proper screen mirroring for users on the Wayland display protocol.
Researchers have found that ChatGPT can exhibit patterns similar to human anxiety when given violent or traumatic prompts. To counter this, they successfully used mindfulness-style instructions to stabilize the AI’s output. The findings highlight new challenges for AI safety in sensitive application
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is calling for a new consensus on AI, framing it as a tool for human amplification. His blog post comes amid investor questions about the return on the company’s massive AI investments. He argues 2026 is a critical year for getting the socio-technical deployment of AI rig
In a candid post, Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri admitted AI-generated “slop” is flooding our feeds. His surprising solution? Give up on tagging the fake stuff and start fingerprinting real human content instead.
