Tecnología

Why some websites are blocking AI agents from accessing the web

AI agents can be a great tool to help make purchases for you online - but it can become a frustrating problem if the website you're using blocks their access.

Engadget · EN

Snap settles social media addiction lawsuit to avoid trial

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel was due to testify in the upcoming trial.

Engadget · EN

Your Apple AirPods' chirping noise doesn't just mean low battery

Learn why your Apple AirPods are making a noise - and how to turn the sound off.

Engadget · EN

Casio's new keyboard lets anyone play along to songs without ever hitting a wrong note

Casio's new Feel Sync technology helps keep new players in tune.

Engadget · EN

42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’

Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation?

TechCrunch · EN

SpaceX reportedly wants to buy Boost Mobile to compete with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

SpaceX has been looking for new ways to use its Starlink network, and a tie-up with cellular operator Boost Mobile could give it the terrestrial access it needs.

TechCrunch · EN

Readwise takes on Amazon’s Kindle and Goodreads with its new app for book lovers

Readwise Books combines an e-book store, reading tracker, detailed reading stats, and AI features in a bid to challenge Amazon's ecosystem.

TechCrunch · EN

In one of the largest deals in tech history, Marvell buys Lumentum for $115B

Marvell's planned purchase of Lumentum is one of the biggest acquisitions in tech history. And they both have the same strategic investor: Nvidia.

TechCrunch · EN

Snap settles lawsuit accusing platform of fueling teen depression and eating disorders

The plaintiffs said they started using YouTube as young as age 3 and other social media platforms at around age 9 and developed compulsive usage habits that they attributed to features such as autoplay and infinite scrolling.

TechCrunch · EN

New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping

The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.

TechCrunch · EN

Web host Squarespace lays off 19% of its employees

The website builder said that the job losses are part of a broader restructuring of its organization.

TechCrunch · EN

Germany says lawmakers’ iPhones may have been hacked with spyware

German lawmakers and a filmmaker are among the people who received notifications from Apple warning that their phones may have been hacked.

TechCrunch · EN

We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time

This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded. Around the same time, another OpenAI agent accessed private files from an Australian government website. It’s a problem…

MIT Technology Review · EN

The Download: AI agent tracking and climate feedback loops

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Opinion: We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time —Madhulika Srikumar and Claire Leibowicz from the Partnership on AI, a nonprofit advancing best practices in AI governance. AI…

MIT Technology Review · EN

Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse.

GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinical psychologists, they can represent something more sinister—a potential trigger for eating disorders. A new report suggests that the global incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa shot up between 1990 and 2023—by a whopping 71%. By 2023,…

MIT Technology Review · EN

The Download: GLP-1s and eating disorders, self-aware cities, and forever chemicals

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse. GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinicians, they can…

MIT Technology Review · EN

The agentic web is here

In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision. Together with two colleagues, he published an article in the magazine Scientific American in which he outlined what he called the “Semantic Web”: an internet designed to be navigated by autonomous software agents that could address our every…

MIT Technology Review · EN

The Download: the agentic web arrives and the drive for safer roads

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The agentic web is here In 2001, a decade after inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision: an internet navigated by autonomous software agents that address our…

MIT Technology Review · EN

Stop counting tokens, start counting what ships

When a developer gives an AI agent a coding task, the agent does more than answer once. It plans, generates code, runs tests, and repeats the process to correct errors. A single task can use 10 to 50 times more tokens than a basic chat prompt. The more useful the agent becomes, the more calls…

MIT Technology Review · EN

Raising the quality of insights in agentic analytics

In just a few years, generative AI has changed the face of enterprise analytics, notably by making analytics accessible to users across the organization. Agentic AI promises to do even more, by automating entire workflows and taking actions based on agent insights. But there is a problem: The quality of insights that agents currently generate…

MIT Technology Review · EN

Get 25 Percent Off My Favorite Renter-Friendly Storage Lockers

These gorgeous, renter-friendly storage lockers are hardly ever discounted.

Wired · EN

Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Trying to Undermine the Election

So far, Department of Justice–led efforts to sow chaos, even as Americans are already voting, have fallen flat.

Wired · EN

Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro Review: Welcome to Wi-Fi 8

The first Wi-Fi 8 router has arrived. This quad-band gaming beast from Asus is fabulously fast and feature-packed.

Wired · EN

Anti-Oligarchy Activists Plan to Dox Elon Musk and Hundreds of Billionaire-Linked Homes

The Capytistas, a secretive group claiming more than $1.2 million in backing, started with Elon Musk and Tesla’s board. Members argue that those who buy political power deserve the scrutiny they’ll impose.

Wired · EN