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Shun Amazon with the 24 best anti-Prime Day deals from Best Buy, REI and more

Besides Amazon, plenty of other retailers are also lowering prices on great products our shopping experts can vouch forThe best Prime Day deals on things our editors actually tested and loveSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsEvery summer, Amazon entices sweaty consumers with steep discounts on everything […]

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These are the 40 best Prime Day deals our editors are texting their friends about

Our experts found and vetted the best Prime Day deals and sales. Here are our picks for nontoxic cookware, bedding, tower fans and moreThe best anti-Prime Day deals for Amazon skepticsThe best wireless earbuds for iPhone owners are on saleOur favorite nontoxic, nonstick pans is now on salePrime Day is the wild west of online

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Every Apple Watch is at the lowest price we’ve ever seen thanks to Prime Day

A guide to the Prime Day deals on Apple’s top-rated smartwatch and how to choose the right model for youThe best Prime Day deals in the US on things our editors actually tested and loveSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsThe Apple Watch has been around for

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I was wary of driverless cars and their tech overlords – but they could give me a different future | Gabriel Stewart

For those of us who can’t drive due to disabilities, the drawbacks of these vehicles are vastly outweighed by the possibilities they offerThe robotaxis are coming! The robotaxis are coming! Well, actually, they’re already here. Until now they’ve been the stuff of science fiction, but this summer London’s streets have seen Silicon Valley-based company Waymo

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The weirdest things a leak revealed about Peter Thiel’s secret club | Tayo Bero

The Dialog society grades its attendees on a hidden scale, tackles issues from sex to world wars, and offers matchmakingWhat would happen if roughly 200 members of the global elite gathered every year for a top secret retreat? What would they do? What would they talk about? Who would be on the guest list?Well, data

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Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns

Workers signed petition against tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and computer screen contentMark Zuckerberg’s Meta has paused a program that tracked employees’ computer activity amid data privacy concerns and a staff backlash.The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp had introduced a tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and content displayed on computer

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If an AI chatbot misleads you, who is to blame? | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders

A court in Germany found that Google was responsible for what its chatbots say in search summaries. This is the accountability we needEarlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves”, and that they generally know “that information generated with

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Nous Research Adds /learn to Hermes Agent’s Skills System, Capturing Workflows as Slash Commands Without Hand-Writing SKILL.md

Nous Research has expanded the Skills System inside Hermes Agent, its open-source self-improving agent. The new addition is /learn, a command that writes a reusable skill for you. Point it at a document page, a local SDK, a past conversation, or pasted notes. The live agent gathers the material, then authors a SKILL.md on your

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‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies

The writer who coined the word ‘enshittification’ tells us why AI will never deliver what it promises – and why it still appeals so much to those in powerA “centaur”, in automation theory, is a person assisted by a machine, and a “reverse centaur”, hero of Cory Doctorow’s new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to

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16 Best Generative AI Coding Tools in 2026 Compared: Features, and Best Fit

Generative AI has reshaped how software gets built. What began as line-by-line autocomplete now spans full application generation, multi-agent build pipelines, and natural-language interfaces to entire codebases. Large language models trained on code can read context, follow intent, and produce working frontends, backends, and infrastructure with little manual setup. For early-level AI engineers, software engineers,

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