On benchmarks, Opus 4.8 is a step up rather than a leap. It scores 88.6% on SWE-bench Verified (vs. 87.6% for Opus 4.7), 69.2% on the harder SWE-bench Pro (vs. 64.3%), and 74.6% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 ...

Federal prosecutors have charged a Google software engineer with making roughly $1.2 million by using insider information to bet on Polymarket. The software engineer allegedly accessed confidential ...

The Trump administration’s plan to use nearly $1.8 billion to pay people who say they were wrongly investigated or prosecuted would constitute an unprecedented use of public funds, raising questions ...

The fund that could offer payouts to Trump allies who accuse the government of mistreatment is not only highly unusual but also appears to violate the administration’s own policies. By Devlin Barrett ...

At Google IO 2026, the company unveiled a new version of its agentic coding app, Google Antigravity 2.0, with an updated desktop app, a CLI tool, and an SDK for custom workflows. The company launched ...

For more than a decade, as scientists tried to evaluate just how much the planet might warm by the end of the century, the most extreme scenario they considered in models was one in which humanity ...

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This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Apple's iOS 26.4 and iOS 18.7.8 fix the same flaw, in Notification Services, where ...

The iOS 26.4.2, iPadOS 26.4.2, iOS 18.7.8, and iPadOS 18.7.8 updates that Apple released today address a security vulnerability that the FBI recently used to extract Signal message previews from an ...

SHREVEPORT, La. — A man in Louisiana killed eight children Sunday in a shooting that authorities described as a domestic violence incident and was later killed by police after he fled in a carjacked ...

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Macworld reports that Apple’s watchOS 8.8.2 update is causing significant problems including app installation failures, random crashes, and battery drain issues. The update particularly affects older ...