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.
An indie developer is building a game where you dig through a landfill looking for James Howells’ lost hard drive. The real search ran for 12 years, lost twice in court, and ended in August 2025 with nothing recovered.
SpaceX is putting a $100 billion Starship spaceport on 125,000 acres of Louisiana marsh, with ten launch pads and a first flight targeted for 2029. The laws that shield the project from public records requests passed three months before the announcement.
Instinct’s AI assistant sent an email without approval and kept summarizing an inbox after access was revoked. Days later, investors valued it at $2.5 billion.
A routine terms of service email landed in PlayStation inboxes during the week players had organized a protest blackout. Section 1.4 says the software is licensed to you, not sold. With discs ending in January 2028, that sentence is doing far more work than it used to.
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley blames faulty SIM cards for cameras that were viewable on the open internet, and says 0.05 percent were affected. Researchers found 67 live feeds with no password at all. The two explanations do not quite line up.
Nvidia’s AVO agent harness scored a perfect 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark using the same Claude Opus 5 model that scores just 30% on its own, without changing a single model weight.
The 2022 Rockstar hack has a number attached to it: $5 million. The CyberLeek leaks have a much bigger one: $2.83 billion in market value gone in three days. Only one of those is money the company actually spent.
Pew Research Center sampled roughly 490,000 web pages to put dead internet theory to the test. Ten percent of the live web shows signs of AI authorship. Among pages published since ChatGPT launched, it is 35 percent.
Three Phosphatine branded Game & Watch handhelds are heading to auction at Ewbank’s with a combined estimate of around $12,200. Fewer than ten are verified worldwide, and the reason they exist at all is a French cereal promotion.
A developer chasing a Bluetooth headphone glitch found AliExpress running silent audio through the Web Audio API to fingerprint visitors. No microphone involved, no way to see it happening, and no setting that turns it off.