• GE’s new Smart Refrigerator automates grocery shopping with a barcode scanner and Instacart

    January 3, 2026

    Smart fridges are a dime a dozen at CES, and LG and Samsung have thoroughly explored what’s possible when you connect your fridge to the internet or slap a touchscreen on the front. The new GE Profile Smart Refrigerator with Kitchen Assistant GE is announcing ahead of CES 2026 doesn’t reinvent the wheel in that regard, but it does include a first: a built-in barcode scanner for adding items to your shopping list. GE’s “Scan-to-List” feature uses the barcode scanner to quickly (and precisely) add items to a shareable shopping list in GE’s SmartHQ app. You can refer to that…

  • LDV Terron 9 price slashed by thousands in drive-away deal

    January 3, 2026

    The LDV Terron 9 dual-cab ute has had its price cut by $3000 to $47,990 drive-away for Australian Business Number (ABN) holders until March 2026, or until current 2025 stocks run out. LDV said the offer replaces a previous promotion available at the Terron 9’s launch in Australia in July 2025, which saw the standard $50,990 drive-away price reduced by $1000 for ABN holders. The new $3000 discount for ABN holders applies to both model grades, with the standard Terron 9 Origin at $47,990 drive-away including a 3500kg braked towing rating, dual 12.3-inch widescreen digital displays and a five-star ANCAP…

  • Prices for an old Star Wars game have ballooned because of its role in a PS5 jailbreak

    January 3, 2026

    The price for a PS4 copy of the relatively obscure Star Wars racing game, Star Wars Racer Revenge, has dramatically increased in the last few days because of the game’s use in the latest PlayStation 5 jailbreak, Eurogamer reports. The PS2 game was originally released in 2002, and was ported to PS4 by Limited Run Games in 2019. Its role as a key ingredient in the jailbreaking process was announced on December 31. Interested jailbreakers need Racer Revenge to jailbreak PS5 12.00 firmware because of a bug in the game’s Hall of Fame feature, according to Eurogamer. The bug makes…

  • In 2026, AI will move from hype to pragmatism

    January 2, 2026

    If 2025 was the year AI got a vibe check, 2026 will be the year the tech gets practical. The focus is already shifting away from building ever-larger language models and toward the harder work of making AI usable. In practice, that involves deploying smaller models where they fit, embedding intelligence into physical devices, and designing systems that integrate cleanly into human workflows.  The experts TechCrunch spoke to see 2026 as a year of transition, one that evolves from brute-force scaling to researching new architectures, from flashy demos to targeted deployments, and from agents that promise autonomy to ones that…

  • Where are Engadget’s CES 2025 winners now?

    January 2, 2026

    With CES 2026 slated to officially start next week, the focus is understandably on all the new products that will be announced at this year’s event. But before diving into what’s new, we thought it was a good idea to revisit our best of show winners from last year to see where they’re at. After all, CES is synonymous with vaporware. The good news is the Engadget team has a keen sense for BS. Of the ones we awarded at CES 2025 that haven’t been released, most are coming this year. For the remaining few, we’ll be hunting them down this CES.…

  • The 16 top logistics, manufacturing, materials startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield 

    January 2, 2026

    Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. But the remaining 180 startups all blew us away as well in their respective categories and compete in their own pitch competition. Here is the full list of the logistics, manufacturing, and materials Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition.  Logistics GigU  What it…

  • A Coding Implementation to Build a Self-Testing Agentic AI System Using Strands to Red-Team Tool-Using Agents and Enforce Safety at Runtime

    January 2, 2026

    In this tutorial, we build an advanced red-team evaluation harness using Strands Agents to stress-test a tool-using AI system against prompt-injection and tool-misuse attacks. We treat agent safety as a first-class engineering problem by orchestrating multiple agents that generate adversarial prompts, execute them against a guarded target agent, and judge the responses with structured evaluation criteria. By running everything in Colab workflow and using an OpenAI model via Strands, we demonstrate how agentic systems can be used to evaluate, supervise, and harden other agents in a realistic, measurable way. Check out the FULL CODES here. !pip -q install "strands-agents[openai]" strands-agents-tools pydantic…

  • The cars Australians should buy in 2026

    January 2, 2026

    Perhaps your New Year’s resolution was to finally get a new car. Well, allow us to steer you in the right direction. As more and more auto brands flood the Australian market, some cars are increasingly finding themselves trying to keep above water. Not every car can sell as well as a Toyota Prado or HiLux, but some of these vehicles are selling well below what we’d expect. That means you can buy something you won’t see on every street corner, and potentially score a good deal in the process. For this exercise, we looked at models that had market…

  • Up to 88 percent off ProtonVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, NordVPN and more

    January 2, 2026

    Christmas may be over, but some holiday VPN deals are still going strong. The early days of January are a great time to grab a last-minute subscription for yourself or a loved one. With access to a virtual private network (VPN), you can stream TV shows and events from all over the world, protect your information from hackers and thwart online trackers. Although we strongly recommend using a VPN, jumping on the first deal that comes along might get you stuck with a substandard app. Beyond that, even otherwise respectable VPNs sometimes frame their prices in misleading ways, with advertised…

  • Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments

    January 2, 2026

    No company has capitalized on the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. Its revenue, profitability, and cash reserves have skyrocketed since the introduction of ChatGPT over three years ago — and the many competitive generative AI services that have launched since. Its stock price has soared, making it a $4.6 trillion market cap company.  The world’s leading high-performance GPU maker has used its ballooning fortunes to significantly increase investments in startups, particularly in AI.  Nvidia has participated in nearly 67 venture capital deals in 2025, surpassing the 54 deals the company completed in all of 2024, according to PitchBook data. Note…