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Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ready to show off some of its more daring AI coding experiments. But as usual with claims of AI-related achievement, you’ll find some key caveats ahead. On Thursday, Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini published a blog post describing how he set 16 instances of the company’s Claude Opus 4.6 AI model loose on a shared codebase with minimal supervision, tasking them with building a C compiler from scratch. Over two weeks and nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions costing about $20,000 in…

The 2026 Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks will air on NBC this Sunday, Feb. 8. The game will also stream on Peacock. If you don’t have NBC over the air and don’t subscribe to Peacock, there are still ways to watch Super Bowl LX — and Bad Bunny’s history-making Halftime Show — for free. Here’s how to tune in.How to watch Super Bowl LX free:Date: Sunday, Feb. 8Time: 6:30 p.m. ETLocation: Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.TV channel: NBC, TelemundoStreaming: Peacock, DirecTV, NFL+ and more2026 Super Bowl game channelSuper Bowl LX will air on…

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It’s Saturday, so it’s a long one, and a few of the clues are tricky. Read on for all the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.Read more: Tips and…

I’ll admit it freely. I’m no stranger to a bit of shower karaoke. I blast my music in the shower just about every single day, and when doing so, I’ve always got one of my trusty Bluetooth speakers at my side.As a teen, I used to just listen to music from my phone. After all, a lot of modern handsets have excellent waterproofing and protection against the elements, so it only seems natural. But oh my, was I missing out. See, there are so many amazing waterproof speakers on the market that can take shower listening to new heights –…

Despite the hype about these agents being co-workers, from our experience, these agents tend to work best if you think of them as tools that amplify existing skills, not as the autonomous co-workers the marketing language implies. They can produce impressive drafts fast but still require constant human course-correction. The Frontier launch came just three days after OpenAI released a new macOS desktop app for Codex, its AI coding tool, which OpenAI executives described as a “command center for agents.” The Codex app lets developers run multiple agent threads in parallel, each working on an isolated copy of a codebase…

Anker rolled out a bunch of new chargers and other gear at CES 2026, including a cute one that’s already on sale. The new Nano charger with smart display, which is an upgrade to the existing Nano charger in Anker’s lineup, is on sale for $30 right now when you clip an on-page coupon on Amazon. That’s $10 off the regular price.The 45W charger includes a smart display that shows real-time data like power flow, temperature and charging status. It also features “fun animations to keep things cheerful.” Anker says it can recognize what’s being charged and automatically adjust certain…

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.Well, today’s Mini Crossword sure had a different twist! You have to try and figure out what the letters stand for in all the Across clues, and then fill in the word that the letter in parentheses stands for. Read on for all the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.If you’re looking for today’s Wordle,…

Self-built Blackbird drone hits 428.8mph / 690kmh in Australian outbackBen Biggs is an aerospace engineer by tradeRecord remains unofficial due to lack of professional observerI consider myself something of a drone expert, but then I come across a story like this and realize I’m very much at the novice end of the scale compared to some pilots. Drone Pro Hub recently posted a video on their YouTube channel, in which their quadcopter hit an astonishing world record speed of 428.8mph / 690kmh in the skies over the Australian outback.This drone isn’t some multi-million-dollar prototype from the likes of DJI or…

The Lockerstor 2 Gen2+ (model AS6702T v2) is the first network-attached storage (NAS) server from ASUSTOR (the storage subsidiary of ASUS) I’ve reviewed in almost eight years, since the AS4002T. The new server proved to be a totally different beast, for the better. Yet the two share many similarities: they are dual-bay servers that run the same Linux-based ASUSTOR Data Master (ADM) operating system, albeit many major versions apart. I like the older AS4002T’s tool-free drivetray design much better, but the AS6702T v2 has lots to compensate for that. Here’s the bottom line: Despite some minor design quirks, the AS6702T…

Russian-state hackers wasted no time exploiting a critical Microsoft Office vulnerability that allowed them to compromise the devices inside diplomatic, maritime, and transport organizations in more than half a dozen countries, researchers said Wednesday. The threat group, tracked under names including APT28, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Forest Blizzard, and Sofacy, pounced on the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21509, less than 48 hours after Microsoft released an urgent, unscheduled security update late last month, the researchers said. After reverse-engineering the patch, group members wrote an advanced exploit that installed one of two never-before-seen backdoor implants. Stealth, speed, and precision The entire campaign was…