Your Smart Home Should Pass the Cancel Test
Home Assistant’s planned cloud-service rename offers a useful test for connected gadgets: what still works after you cancel the subscription?
Kindle’s New Buttons Have a Better Job Than Looking Retro
Amazon’s new page-turn accessories raise a useful design question: how much should a reading device ask of the person trying to disappear into a book?
Gears of War: E-Day and the Price of Starting Together
Gears of War: E-Day starts five days earlier for premium players. Beyond the edition chart is a familiar question: when does the whole group get to begin?
The AI Agent Problem Isn’t Intelligence. It’s Permission.
AI agents promise to handle our errands, inboxes and purchases. Their biggest obstacle may be earning permission to touch the parts of life that make them useful.
Onimusha’s Million-Sale Launch Rewards a Patient Revival
Capcom’s first new Onimusha game in more than 20 years sold over one million copies on launch day—an encouraging result for patient franchise revivals.
F-Droid 2.0 Gives Android’s Independent App Store a Modern Reset
F-Droid’s biggest redesign in a decade aims to make privacy-focused, open-source Android software easier to discover and install.
Age Checks Should Prove Eligibility, Not Identity
Discord’s revised age-verification rollout is a reminder that online services should confirm eligibility without building permanent identity files.
Valve’s Open-Source Lepton Could Give VR Games a Second Life
Valve’s open-source Lepton compatibility layer could make Android VR games easier to bring forward—and less dependent on aging headsets.
The M6 Mac mini Arrives With a Much Harder Value Question
Apple’s M6 Mac mini reaches stores September 22 with major performance gains—and a $899 starting price that changes the old bargain.
AI Needs an Incident Hotline Before the Next Crisis
A proposed U.S.-China notification channel for dangerous AI incidents is modest, practical infrastructure for a technology race that has outgrown secrecy.
