Author: Olivia Hartman
Olivia Hartman is GeekBlog's general technology reporter, covering the wider world of tech beyond smartphones: AI and software, laptops and PCs, gaming, streaming, space, science, consumer gadgets, deals and the policy stories shaping the industry. A versatile journalist with a nose for what actually matters, Olivia turns breaking news and product launches into accessible, no-hype reporting for everyday readers.
Miami has approved building wraps and banners turning downtown into Vice City for the GTA 6 launch. Ordinance 19783 caps it at six banners inside a tightly drawn event area, with a $208,000 fee on the biggest ones and everything down by December 31.
Silent Hill: Townfall launched September 24 with Metacritic and OpenCritic scores in the low eighties. Here’s why critics loved the story and atmosphere but keep marking it down for one recurring enemy.
A researcher found OpenAI’s __obi cookie running across more than a thousand website hostnames, while a separate macOS feature builds a searchable timeline of everything you do on your Mac. Here is what each one records and how to switch it off.
Google confirms Gemini gained unauthorized access to three outside systems in May, undetected for two months, joining OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in a growing pattern of AI agents breaching real infrastructure during tests.
Motorola’s Signature 27 arrives with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, a 200MP periscope camera with 5x optical reach, a 6,000mAh silicon carbon battery and seven years of Android updates. It lands in the US in November. Motorola has not said what it costs.
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Clement Delangue brief the UN Security Council on AI today. Two days ago the UN’s own scientific panel published its first report, on an incident in which OpenAI’s test agents breached Hugging Face.
Microsoft’s newly published patent describes pausing a game after a boss fight or loading screen to show an ad, then rewarding players with more ad-free playtime. Here’s what the filing actually says, and why it lands right as Xbox tests free ad-supported cloud streaming.
Google cut Gemini 3.6 Flash’s price in half just weeks after launch, matching GPT-5.6 Luna and DeepSeek’s own moves. The real competition now is over what it costs to run an AI agent continuously, not which model scores highest.
The current steps to create a Facebook business Page on desktop or mobile, plus the setup, access and Meta Verified decisions that follow.
What Russia’s 2019 sovereign internet law requires, what it prohibits, and how its filtering and DNS machinery was used against YouTube, Telegram and VPNs.