Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
xAI launches Grok 4.3, featuring “always-on reasoning”, 1M token context window, and low API pricing, and releases a voice cloning suite called Custom Voices  —  While Elon Musk faces off against his former colleague and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman in court, Musk's rival firm xAI …

Nintendo recently announced a new pricing policy, which knocks $10 off the cost of digital versions of future first-party titles exclusive to the Nintendo Switch 2. Splatoon Raiders, for instance, is available for preorder ahead of its July 23rd release for $49.99 digitally or $59.99 for the physical edition. However, Amazon and Walmart are the exception in […]

One detainee was found dead with 66 pills in his cell. Another lay in distress for five minutes during an apparent overdose before staff administered Narcan. A third was left locked in his cell, unsupervised, for nearly half an hour as he spiraled into a medical crisis. Those were some of the damning findings outlined […]

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The Chronicles of Narnia movie from Barbie director Greta Gerwig moves from November 2026 to February 2027, and gets a long theatrical run.

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a “sustained, cross-border attack”  —  Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down ever since …