Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts Meta acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-like “social network” where AI agents using OpenClaw can communicate with one another. The news was first reported by Axios and later confirmed to TechCrunch. Moltbook is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, a Meta spokesperson told us. Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht...

BBC visits Chernobyl ghost city 40 years after world's worst nuclear accidentOn Sunday, Ukraine marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Reactor number 4 at the plant exploded on 26 April 1986, spewing out radioactive material that would spread across swathes of Europe. The official death toll from the incident in Chornobyl - as it is known in Ukrainian - is 31, but the...

Sir John Curtice: Why Labour's Brexit focus has shifted from Leavers to RemainersSir John CurticeProfessor of politics at the University of StrathclydeBBC"Brexit did deep damage." With those words at her Mais lecture on Tuesday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves made it clear that there has been an important shift within the Labour Party - one that government ministers have been signalling for some...

How Apple Changed Us: Sharing Our Biggest Apple Memories After 50 YearsWith Apple turning 50 this week, it's been fun to go down memory lane with my fellow CNET teammates, looking back on Apple's most iconic tech and sharing Apple's effect on our lives. This week's episode of One More Thing, embedded below, will bring you back to a time when "portable computer" meant lugging a whole...

I Want Apple to Steal These Android Camera Features for the iPhone 18 ProThe iPhone 17 Pro has an awesome camera system, having held its own against the Galaxy S25 Ultra and fought its corner admirably in a video shootout against a professional cinema camera. The three rear lenses can capture beautiful images in pristine quality, and while I do like recent features such as the...