Massive Pokémon leak exposes beta designs, source codes and plans for upcoming titles

Engadget

Pokémon developer Game Freak has confirmed it suffered a breach as troves of internal materials pertaining to the franchise — from source codes to early and, in some cases, scrapped character designs — hit social media this weekend. In a statement published on Thursday (translated from Japanese), the company said it discovered its servers were hacked in August and that sensitive employee

The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise

The Verge
A picture of an Optimus robot, wearing a cowboy hat and standing in front of a crowd of people, behind a table.
An Optimus robot at the We, Robot event. | Screenshot: Tesla We, Robot livestream

Tesla made sure its Optimus robots were a big part of its extravagant, in-person Cybercab reveal last week. The robots mingled with the crowd, served drinks to and played games with guests, and danced inside a gazebo. Seemingly most surprisingly, they could even talk. But it was mostly just a

This $400 mental health pet companion is powered by AI

Mashable
Two fuzzy toy creatures, each limbless with just small black eyes, on a wood table.

For the 90s and 2000s kids who had an unhealthy attachment to FurReal Friends or Tomagotchis, this extremely cute pet robot wants to be the answer to your adult stress — If you have a couple hundred dollars lying around.

The latest of AI pet companions, Moflin is a fuzzy and featureless robot pet advertised not as a toy, but as a mental health companion. The ball of fluff — a lot like a limbless

US to send more troops and an advanced anti-missile system to Israel

Tech Insider
An Israeli Apache helicopter fires a missile towards southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel.
An Israeli Apache helicopter fires a missile towards southern Lebanon.

Leo Correa/AP

  • The US is sending more troops and an anti-missile system to Israel.
  • The THAAD system will bolster Israel's air defense against incoming threats, the Pentagon said.
  • It comes amid heightened tensions with Iran after Israel's assassination of Hezbollah's leader.

The United States is sending troops and an anti-missile

I'm an American who has visited Scotland around a dozen times. Here are the 3 biggest mistakes I see tourists make.

Tech Insider
A woman and dog sit on a rock overlooking a lighthouse and the sea, left, and a waterfall, right.
Helene Sula is a travel blogger from Texas.

Helene Sula

  • Helene Sula is a US travel blogger who has visited Scotland around a dozen times.
  • Sula said people needed to explore beyond Edinburgh to avoid overtourism.
  • She also advised people to be prepared for Scotland's rather unpredictable weather.

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Helene Sula, an American travel blogger and author

Travel, Travel

Google's share of the search ad market could drop below 50% for the first time in a decade as AI search engines boom

Tech Insider
A woman using a google computer
Google's share of US advertising could drop below 50% for the first time in more than 10 years, according to eMarketer.

Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty Images

  • Google is facing new competition in the advertising market as AI transforms the industry.
  • Google's search ad market share in the US could fall below 50% for the first time in a decade.
  • Perplexity AI, meanwhile, says it is attracting "top