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.
Rebel Wolves, the studio built by the creative leadership behind The Witcher 3, has launched its vampire RPG to an 85 on OpenCritic. Here is what the 30 day clock, the day and night loops and the combat actually deliver, and whether it is worth $69.99.
Sadie Adler survives Red Dead Redemption 2. Here is her full arc, from the cellar at Adler Ranch to the stabbing at Mount Hagen, and where she goes after the ending.
You can use movie clips on YouTube only with a license, from a public domain film, or under a genuine fair use argument. Here is how the four factors apply to film footage, how Content ID claims differ from copyright strikes, and where to get footage nobody will claim.
Gal Gadot says it took her lawyers six months to write the AI terms for Doug Liman’s Bitcoin, and that SAG-AFTRA rang them afterward asking how it was done. The clause protects her performance completely. It protects nobody who built the sets, because the sets were the point.
The FBI’s new alert describes a phishing attack that never asks for your password. You approve a permission screen on a real Microsoft or Google page, and the attacker keeps reading your mail afterward. Resetting your password does nothing. Here is the setting that actually cuts them off.
The Department of War added tailored versions of ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil, its secure AI portal, alongside Google’s Gemini. Of the 3 million eligible military and civilian personnel, 1.7 million had already signed up, though reporting found some staff learned about the rollout only after it went live.
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act on August 31, 2026, the first time an AI chatbot has been placed in that legal category. OpenAI now has until December to complete risk audits, algorithmic transparency and researcher data access, or face fines of up to 6% of global revenue.
The Enough Phone targets a 5.3-inch screen, a battery you can swap by hand, and a Kickstarter campaign that needs 20,000 backers. It arrives four months before an EU rule that was supposed to make swappable batteries normal, and that rule has a loophole.
A Taiwanese man opened his robot vacuum’s app to talk to his wife, found a live camera feed and another man, and hit record. The footage won him NT$500,000 in civil damages and a five month sentence for unlawful recording. Most robot vacuum owners have never checked who can still log in.
Google Maps renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America for US users three days after Trump signed the order. Apple Maps has not moved, so the President called Apple directly. The mechanism behind all of it is one row in a federal database.