Astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore is leaving NASA after a quarter-century of service. Wilmore flew on four different spacecraft during his astronaut career, which began way back in 2000. He spent a total of 464 days off Earth and conducted five spacewalks,…
Use OpenAI’s new models to run AI locally on your Mac
One of the two new open-weight models from OpenAI can bring ChatGPT-like reasoning to your Mac with no subscription needed. On August 5, OpenAI launched two new large language models with publicly available weights: gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b. These are the first…
Hackers use “voice phishing” attack to steal Cisco customer personal info
A scammer tricked a Cisco employee into granting access to a CRM The attacker then used the access to exfiltrate sensitive data Affected customers were notified “where required by law” Cisco has admitted recently suffering a cyberattack which saw it lose…
OpenAI has finally released open-weight language models
“The vast majority of our [enterprise and startup] customers are already using a lot of open models,” said Casey Dvorak, a research program manager at OpenAI, in a media briefing about the model release. “Because there is no [competitive] open model…
Censorship and stolen puritanical valor
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a…
Earth’s ‘oldest’ impact crater is much younger than previously thought, new study finds
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the “clocks” geologists use to date events can also be misread. Unravelling…
Sonos’ first-gen Roam speakers are overheating and melting
Sonos’ first-gen Roam speakers are reportedly melting. Image Credit: u/elsato on Reddit Early Sonos Roam speakers are overheating, with enough complaints of melted charging cables, jackhammer-type noises, and even a burning plastic smell coming from affected devices forcing the company to…
Data center infrastructure is the “unsung foundation” of the Government’s ambitious AI agenda
This year’s Spending Review highlighted a critical issue that is often buried in the hype of AI. Huge budgets are being piled into AI development – including the Government’s latest promise of £2 billion in public funds – but without equal…
A glimpse into OpenAI’s largest ambitions
As Will points out, there were two recent wins for OpenAI in its efforts to build AI that outcompetes humans. Its models took second place at a top-level coding competition and—alongside those from Google DeepMind—achieved gold-medal-level results in the 2025 International…
Release dates, colors and everything else you need to know about Apple’s new phones
After seeing the changes coming with iOS 26, we’re ready to finally see Apple’s newest collection of smartphones: the iPhone 17 lineup. While that’s still more than a month away — assuming Apple sticks to its usual release schedule — we…