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Meta is lowering the entry price for AI glasses in what appears to be the clearest sign yet that the company wants to turn smart glasses into an everyday device for the masses. On June 23, the company introduced its new Meta glasses in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, with prices starting at $299. Buyers can choose from 26 style combinations, and the glasses are compatible with prescription lenses.

Every U.S. federal government agency will soon be scrambling to achieve “quantum preparedness” years ahead of the previous deadline, thanks to an executive order signed by President Trump earlier this week. Titled Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks, the order gives agencies 180 days to appoint a Post-Quantum Cryptography migration lead, who will report to the National Cyber Director and the Office of Management and Budget.

New leaks suggest that Sony’s next console could arrive much sooner than the industry expected. A hardware tipster with a decent record, NeoGAF user “KeplerL2,” said that the PlayStation 6 is “locked in” for a 2027 release. They claim that Sony has effectively finished the bulk of the engineering work on the machine. This comes only a week after a separate report suggested a release wouldn’t come until 2028 or even 2029.

Claude Tag is Anthropic’s latest attempt to turn AI from a tool you visit into a coworker you can’t avoid. Much like Microsoft’s new AI sidekick, the company unveiled a new Slack integration that lets users summon Claude directly into workplace conversations with a simple “@Claude” mention. The company appears to be trying to make AI assistance feel less like opening another app and more like tapping the shoulder of an unusually knowledgeable colleague. The result?

Apple is facing a £3 billion (about $4 billion) class action lawsuit in the UK over claims that the company turned its iCloud storage service into a Big Tech trap. Consumer group Which? filed the complaint, in which it alleges that Apple used the control it had over iPhone and other iOS devices to encourage its customers to use iCloud while making it harder for competing cloud storage providers to gain traction. Apple has denied the allegations.

We’re approaching the midway point of wildfire season, and although 2026 has been a milder year than some others in recent memory, anxieties remain high, particularly in the American southwest. New studies on the phenomenon are published almost daily. One of these found that “high-severity” fires are now the predominant form of both forest fires and wildfires in California, while “low-severity” fires were once more common.

Commodore is back with a flip phone for people who want their phones to do less. The Callback 8020 is what the company calls a new “not dumb dumbphone” that blocks time sucks like social media and web browsers while keeping the apps people need most on the device. That means buyers won’t have to give up WhatsApp, Google Maps, Spotify, rideshare apps, podcasts, QR codes, calendars, 2FA apps, and SMS.

The price of Apple devices will go up in the not-too-distant future, as the AI boom continues to drive up the cost of memory and storage chips. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on June 17, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that higher prices are coming as DRAM and NAND costs rise across the consumer electronics industry.

Rockstar has finally given video game fans who are looking forward to the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 something to cheer about, as the studio confirmed that pre-sales for the highly anticipated title will open on June 25. Fans will be able to preorder through digital marketplaces like the PlayStation Store and through certain participating retailers. The announcement has ramped up anticipation for a sequel that Rockstar first teased in February 2022.

Model collapse has become one of the AI industry’s most talked-about fears, up there with AI psychosis. Large language models are trained on internet content, an increasing amount of which is produced by other LLMs. The worry is that systems could gradually become less accurate, less diverse, and less connected to reality by duplicating each others’ mistakes instead of learning from humans.