Published Oct 8, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT Derek Malcolm has been covering the worlds of tech and entertainment for more than two decades. Before coming to How-To Geek in 2025, Derek was a contributing editor and writer for the A/V and Home Theater section at Digital Trends , where he wrangled and wrote everything from whatContinue Reading
Teenage figure skaters as young as 13 are being increasingly targeted by abusive comments on social media, Olympic gold medalist Evan Bates has warned. In a sport which has seen revived popularity since the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, Bates said some users were creating “toxic environments” around livestreamed eventsContinue Reading
A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance, so it plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed “hateful” or “inciting.” The plans laid out by the founder of theContinue Reading
There’s a certain segment of the American population that likes to really bang on about the importance of the First Amendment to our rights to free speech and the freedom of religion… right up until that includes speech and religion they don’t like. This same segment also tends to makeContinue Reading
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Ubuntu’s websites are experiencing a “sustained distributed denial of service attack” today (8 October 2026). Update: Incident was resolved, with websites offline for 4 hours and 12 minutes. Canonical says some of its online sites will be ‘intermittently unavailable’ as its teams work to resolve the incident. There’s no ETAContinue Reading
Google seems to be making a strategic play to control the AI infrastructure layer, not just roll out another shiny new agent. At its Gemini at Work 2026 event this week, the tech giant unveiled what it calls a “single, universal agent” and API in Gemini that can be kickedContinue Reading
KDE Frameworks 6.28.0 Released with Android Calendar Plugin, New Barcode Support, and KIO Improvements. KDE has released Frameworks 6.28.0, the latest monthly update to its set of over 80 libraries that form the foundation of Plasma and most KDE applications. This release brings several useful new features along with theContinue Reading
Recent sales data from General Motors indicates a significant decline in demand for its electric vehicles within the United States, contributing to an overall decrease in company-wide sales throughout the third quarter and the first nine months of the current year. It is well-documented that electric vehicle (EV) sales in the United States have experiencedContinue Reading
Five American technology companies are pledging $2.4B in AI tools and compute credits to federal science at a White House summit, with Nvidia giving $1B and Google the smallest share at $150M. The same administration suspended Microsoft from a residency programme hours earlier, and Britain’s regulator named three of the five donors that morning…Continue Reading
The U.S. Army found systemic safety breakdowns behind last year’s midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C., and recommended changes to prevent future tragedies. The Army report — completed in May and released publicly Thursday after months of pressure from the victims’Continue Reading
The Traitor presented the SpaceX and Tesla CEO with the nation’s highest form of recognition for scientists and engineers., The Traitor presented the SpaceX and Tesla CEO with the nation’s highest form of recognition for scientists and engineers., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Jefferson County Public Schools, which serves 75,000 students at 145 Colorado schools, recently placed six new electric school buses and six bidirectional chargers into service. The six IC electric buses will begin serving Jeffco students during the current school year. Xcel Energy provided $3.4 million in funding through its ElectricContinue Reading
Sponsored by H.B. Fuller As electric vehicles evolve, battery design is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Automakers are under pressure to deliver greater driving range, faster charging, lower costs, improved safety, and more sustainable manufacturing practices, all within the same battery system. Achieving those objectives requires more than advances in cellContinue Reading