This photo shows the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building. (Mainichi/Makoto Ogawa) As a countermeasure against the rising cost of living, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is offering 11,000 yen ...

Advocates for transparency on social media cheered this weekend when X, the app owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk, rolled out a new feature that disclosed what the company said were the country ...

Elon Musk’s X has begun rolling out a new feature for user profiles that will display information about the account, including where it’s based, how many times the account has changed its username, ...

In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth? Credit...Julia Dufosse ...

Tower of Fantasy is an interesting one: a mashup of gacha and MMO, all of the random monetisation bullshit, plus expecting you to *shudder* work together with strangers. Despite being a sicko for both ...

Tower of Fantasy is one of several gacha MMOs to enter the space a few years ago. It offers players a Genshin-like experience, but a more focused experience on MMO-like instanced and world boss events ...

Apple is encouraging iPhone users who are still running iOS 18 to upgrade to iOS 26 by making the ‌iOS 26‌ software upgrade option more prominent. Since ‌iOS 26‌ launched in September, it has been ...

The producer dreamed up TaTa Taktumi and brought her to life with help from the software Suno. She’s arriving at a fraught ...

Even a government shutdown — and the furlough of 34,000 employees at the Internal Revenue Service — doesn’t change the need to file your 2026 taxes. The shutdown was big news. But right after the IRS ...

AT&T's $177 million settlement is for data breaches in 2019 and 2024. Claim up to $5,000 (first breach) and $2,500 (Snowflake hack), or both. File claim by Dec. 18, 2025, either online or by mail. If ...