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Our favorite budget audiophile brand launches new flagship planar magnetic headphones that aren't so budget — but a next-gen 86% thinner diaphragm with 'full-face diamond coating' could make them worth the price for head-fi fans

The brand clearly thought it was time to revisit the tech, because it's launched a follow-up. No, not the FT6; meet the Fiio FT15. These new wired open-back headphones bring refinements across the board, including some…

Interview: François-Xavier Pierrel, chief data officer, TF1

At TF1, he’s helping his organisation embrace business transformation . Pierrel suggests the scale of change means his role covers a broad spectrum of activities from data to advertising technology. “Most of my job is…

Apple launches 'privacy-first' AI upgrade to Siri – but it won't be available in the EU

Released on Monday, the reimagined assistant relies on on-device processing and a private cloud system to protect user data, but its global rollout has hit a regulatory roadblock. Siri AI will "initially" not be…

Diablo 4 game director says it's 'liberating' to be done with expansions as Blizzard can continue the narrative through seasons instead — 'We completed the story, but the butterfly effect can take us anywhere'

"Amid the dead rising from Pandemonium, the lost soul of the legendary Horadrim Deckard Cain returns with dire news," the questline description reads. "Three dark wanderers have returned, each leaving a trail of death in…

Huawei’s answer to Nvidia isn’t a faster chip, it’s a much bigger machine

His opening keynote ran under the title Advancing the Agentic World, Building a Solid Silicon Foundation. Huawei then spent three days setting out the machines it wants to run that revolution on. Most of the coverage…

Apple demands UK Home Office admit secret iPhone ‘backdoor’ order

Joined by human rights organisations Liberty and Privacy International , Apple appeared at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal to argue for the removal of restrictions gagging officials from confirming the confidential…

Keep seeing strange meetings and events in your calendar? It might be because calendar-based phishing has jumped 33,000% since May — and they work even if the email is sent to spam

This is according to a new report by cybersecurity researchers Sublime, who argue that this type of phishing has finally “hit the mainstream”. The methodology is simple - the attacker uses a free service, such as Gmail…

Winning video from Nikon microscope competition shows airway cells dancing in child with rare genetic disorder — Chinese student built imaging system to capture 'beautiful' cilia at 100x magnification

The competition aims to showcase "the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope", and the 2026 winners have now been announced. First prize this year goes to a video of airway cilia (tiny…

NASA's moon orbiter has spotted an impact crater that only happens once a century

Sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, a comet or an asteroid that's about the size of a three- to six‑story building slammed into the lunar surface and made the largest modern-day crater in our solar system. While…

Microsoft executive called OpenAI's web scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history'

Microsoft's director of Applied Science, Dr. Brent Hecht, said OpenAI's work was akin to the "largest theft of labor in human history" that could create a "doom loop," while OpenAI exec Nick Turley said it represented an…