Category: Tech Made Simple

Anthropic versus the Pentagon

Anthropic on screen behind smartphone display of Claude with logo

President Trump on Friday blasted Anthropic as “woke” and “leftwing” for refusing to remove safeguards on its AI for use in surveillance and autonomous weapons.  “WE will decide the fate of our Country—NOT some out-of-control, Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. As PCMag […]

Apple Turns its March 4 Event into a Week-Long Affair – What to Expect

Apple CEO Tim Cook

Following a new AirTag in January, Apple is set to unveil its next new products of 2026 this week. As Mac Rumors reports, Apple CEO Tim Cook teased that the company will have a “big week ahead,” with announcements set to begin this Monday, March 2. Given this launch is described as an “Apple Experience,” it […]

Think EV’s Can’t Stand Up to Harsh Winter Weather? These Brutal Tests Prove They Can.  

Close up on white Lucid Air EV plugged in

Each year, the Norwegian Automotive Federation (NAF) and Norwegian motoring magazine Motor.No carries out one of the most brutal electric vehicle range tests in the El Prix Winter Test Drive, which begins in Norway’s capital, Oslo, and then ventures as far north as battery range will allow. As TechRadar reports, once the city was left behind, this […]

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI

Computer screen showing OpenClaw logo and homescreen

Sam Altman recently announced on X that Peter Steinberger, the man behind the trendy AI agent OpenClaw, was joining OpenAI. As The Verge reports, Altman stated that Steinberger has “a lot of amazing ideas” about getting AI agents to interact with each other, saying “the future is going to be extremely multi-agent.” He also said that this ability […]

Why the Landmark Meta/YouTube Social Media Trial is So Important

Mark Zuckerberg Meta CEO waves to audience

Big Tech may be on the verge of its Big Tobacco moment. As CNN reports, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, one of the leading architects of the modern online world, testified for the first time before a jury last week over claims that social media harms young people. His testimony comes more than four years after internal documents […]

Samsung adds AI-Enabled Pet Health Monitoring to its SmartThings platform

Three dogs making faces for phone camera selfie

At this year’s “CES 2026 The First Look” in Las Vegas, Samsung announced a new AI-based pet health feature for its SmartThings Pet Care platform. The service was created in partnership with pet healthcare startup 11Liter and is now available to pet owners around the world. According to the information, the new feature allows pet owners to check […]

Toyota Announces Plans to Release 4 New EV’s by 2027

Red Toyota bZ electric compact SUV at Los Angeles car show

Toyota has just revealed plans for four new pure electric cars – and they’re part of a US push that’s something of a gear-shift from the car giant’s previous comments about EVs. As Techradar reports, Toyota’s chairman, Akio Toyoda, has been vocal in the past about battery electric vehicles. He claimed back in 2024 that […]

Google warns that Hackers are trying to ‘Clone’ Gemini for Cyberattacks

Google logo on computer screen Gemini on smart phone

As the tech industry races to develop new AI models, Google alleges that “private sector” entities have been trying to reverse-engineer its Gemini chatbot by bombarding it with prompts intended to leak its secrets.  As PCMag reports, Google floated the accusation in a report issued last week that examined malicious activity targeting the chatbot, which has received positive reviews […]

Microsoft Issues Security Warning to Those Still on Windows 10

Windows Blue Screen of Death error message

Microsoft is warning that the June expiration of software certificates will put those still using Windows 10 in an even more vulnerable state. Secure Boot expiring The software certificates deal with a feature called Secure Boot, which can prevent a PC from loading malicious code as the machine starts up. Microsoft initially introduced the feature in 2011 […]