Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library he helps manage. Then things got weird.

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More than a decade later, Alex Garland's Ex Machina remains the most cerebral sci-fi movie that A24 has released; it's now ...

The 5-season hit sci-fi series Fringe, starring Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, and John Noble, is now completely free on Pluto TV ...

Over on Tubi, you can prep for March Madness by watching the new original documentary Gonzaga: The Slipper Still Fits, a look at how the basketball program at Gonzaga University in Washington has gone ...

Ready to start your vibe-coding adventure? A few weeks after its debut on Mac, the Windows version of OpenAI’s Codex app has finally arrived.

OpenAI has released its Codex desktop app for Windows, adding a native sandbox and PowerShell support, enabling developers to ...

The rebrand of WH Smith’s high street stores to TG Jones has been met with a mixture of ridicule and confusion, and perhaps ...

If you love sport, then the Sky Sports app is the place for you. You do not need to be a Sky Sports subscriber to get: Pin your Premier League, WSL or EFL club, F1 team, Super League team and any of ...

One month after it released a standalone Codex app on the Mac, OpenAI announced a version for Windows. The company reports that the Mac app has been downloaded over one million times since its initial ...

MLB's offseason is winding down, spring training is underway and nearly all of the top free agents are off the table. The 2026 season is almost here. The top available free agent, Kyle Tucker, landed ...

Rather than, y'know, outright theft.