Dungeons & Dragons has been a core part of Stranger Things since season 1, with the heroes of Hawkins using the tabletop role-playing game to name the mysterious enemies they encounter, from the Demogorgon to the Mind Flayer, to Vecna. Now Wizards of the Coast and Netflix are making it easy to get a taste […]

Proton, the company behind the encrypted email service Proton Mail, has launched an AI assistant aimed at preserving user privacy. The new chatbot, called Lumo, can summarize documents, generate code, write emails, and more, while storing data locally on users’ devices. Proton says it will protect this information using “zero-access” encryption, which grants users an […]

In a world of relentless notifications, countless demands on your attention, and an endless stream of easy entertainment, it can be hard to carve out time for the humble book. But now more than ever, I’d argue we need the expansiveness and delight that only books can offer. What better reward is there than finding […]

Three very important tariff-related stories loom over the US economy this month. The first is that, after a few weeks of relative quiet, President Donald Trump is once again threatening to raise tariffs on a whole raft of other nations. According to the New York Times, “Trump has threatened 25 trading partners with punishing levies […]

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Alibaba releases its new Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 model on Hugging Face, improving on Qwen 3's reasoning, accuracy, and multilingual understanding  —  Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has made waves globally in the tech and business communities with its own family of “Qwen” …