Texas authorities have made multiple arrests in an NVIDIA GPU smuggling operation

The Southern District of Texas the seizure of more than $50 million in NVIDIA GPUs bound for China in violation of US export laws. Authorities arrested two businessmen, one of them the owner of a Houston company, accused of smuggling the chips used to train and run AI models. “Operation Gatekeeper has exposed a sophisticated

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Letterboxd Video Store’s first film rentals will be available this week

Letterboxd has introduced its first wave of exclusive digital film rentals for the company’s previously announced Letterboxd Video Store. The inaugural collection is themed Unreleased Gems and includes four movies that received awards or acclaim during a film festival. The titles will be available to watch from Letterboxd from December 10 through January 9. Each

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Google Project Aura hands-on: Android XR’s biggest strength is in the apps

Teased at Google I/O, Project Aura is a collaboration between Xreal and Google. It’s the second Android XR device (the first being Samsung’s Galaxy XR headset) and is expected to launch in 2026. Putting it on, I get why the term “smart glasses” doesn’t exactly fit. Is it a headset? Smart glasses? Both? Those were

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The Lord of the Rings trilogy returns to theaters in January for 25th anniversary

One does not simply spend more than 11 hours watching The Lord of the Rings trilogy in a single weekend at home when the opportunity to do so in theaters arises. As The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring turns 25, Fathom Entertainment and Warner Bros. announced theatrical screenings of the Peter

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OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT says posts appearing to show in-app ads are ‘not real or not ads’

Those might not exactly be ads you’re seeing on ChatGPT, at least according to OpenAI. Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT, clarified the confusion around potential ads appearing with the AI chatbot. In a post on X, Turley said “there are no live tests for ads” and that “any screenshots you’ve seen are either not

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