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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.

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
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.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Florida can enforce social media ban for kids, appeals court rules.

The law prevents kids under 14 from creating an account on platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok, while requiring parental permission for teens aged 14 or 15. The tech trade group NetChoice won an injunction blocking the law in 2025, but a judge later paused the injunction during the appeals process, as reported by NBC 6 South Florida.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Microsoft says it’s working on making Edge updates less of a hassle.

It shared a prototype demo for “seamless updates” that wouldn’t require you to restart your browser. That feature’s still in development, but in the meantime Microsoft also says Edge users can opt-in for “Restart to update on idle,” which was previously called “Instant Updates.”