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Robert Hart
Robert Hart
G7 countries plan “tabletop exercises” simulating AI cyberattacks on banks.

The drills were confirmed by Japan’s finance minister on Thursday. States and organizations have grown increasingly worried about AI’s ability to supercharge hacking, particularly after months of impressive releases and rogue agent attacks. Experts, including the heads of the Bank of England and International Monetary Fund, have stressed the need to guard financial institutions.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Apple’s own website could be teasing a new iPad mini.

An unreleased iPad mini Smart Folio is listed on Apple’s French regulatory site, and its A3632 model number doesn’t match any known ‌iPad mini‌ cases. It adds weight to existing rumors that Apple will refresh the iPad mini alongside the expected touchscreen MacBook Pro launch later this month.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Watch how quick and easy it is to swap the Fairbuds 2 batteries.

I said in my hands-on that you can swap the batteries in each bud without any tools in less than a minute, and now iFixit’s teardown proves my point: the battery removal starts at the 27-second mark, and is done before the minute is up. Unsurprisingly, Fairbuds 2 get a 10/10 repairability score.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
The flying Tesla Roadster is ‘not approved for public road use.’

I mean, duh. But still I’m glad they are making that explicit.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The Batman Part II is getting some help from Steven Soderbergh.

Production on the film has been paused while director Matt Reeves focuses on a family matter, but Steven Soderbergh offered to help with the “final weeks” of principal photography on the movie.

“Matt and Steven will work closely together with the actors and crew to fulfill Matt’s vision of the film,” according to a statement published by Deadline. The movie is scheduled to debut on February 18th, 2028.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s chief content officer, is leaving.

Bajaria joined in 2016 and became chief content officer in 2023. Peter Rice, a former Disney and Fox exec, will take over the role, Variety reports.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Skydrop.

As reported by Variety, the newly listed Skydance (SKYD) currently has a market cap of around $40 billion, which is less than half of the sum of the $77.7 billion and $11 billion market caps that Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance had before their merger.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
John Ternus on Apple’s “contribution” to AI:

“How do we build deeply personal experiences leveraging AI that help us all be more creative, be more productive, do whatever it is that we want to do,” Ternus says in an interview with TIME.

And his coffee order? “Americano, black.”

The tech backlash is now in theaters

Between The Social Reckoning, You Can See Everything, Musk, and Artificial, filmmakers are taking Big Tech to task.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The Mummy 4 has a title.

The Mummy: Book of the Dead debuts in theaters in exactly one year: October 15th, 2027. The date was moved up earlier this year from a planned May 2028 release.