President Donald Trump has cast his shadow over the latest forecast on US greenhouse gas emissions. Reductions in planet-heating pollution are already expected to slow over the next decade, setting the US and the world back in efforts to stop climate change. Here’s what could have been. Taking previous climate policies into account, research firm […]

A new Backerkit campaign updates the mechanics first introduced in Numenera, with free PDFs for backers to make launching a game easier.

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Analysis: 13+ datasets used by tech companies without permission to train AI models contain 15.8M+ YouTube videos from 2M+ channels, including 1M how-to videos  —  Editor's note: This analysis is part of The Atlantic's investigation into how YouTube videos are taken to train AI tools.

Juli Clover: Apple today provided developers and public beta testers with the release candidate of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the RC coming after nine rounds of betas. Who can tell from the release notes what’s changed in the last few builds? Steve Troughton-Smith: I don’t honestly know why Apple provides OS release […]

Apple (downloads): Xcode 26 RC includes SDKs for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, and visionOS 26. The Xcode 26 RC release supports on-device debugging in iOS 16 and later, tvOS 16 and later, watchOS 8 and later, and visionOS. Xcode 26 RC requires a Mac running macOS Sequoia 15.6 […]