Anonymous Men Have Turned Cyberharassment Into a Group Sport—Here’s One Woman’s Side of the Story

This week on Uncanny Valley, we take you behind our feature on the women struggling after being targeted by the burnerverse.

Volkswagen delays its electric minibus for the US — again
Volkswagen delays its electric minibus for the US —  again

Volkswagen’s electric minibus will not return for the 2027 model year as expected, after another delay.

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Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting

The startup’s robot can tighten or loosen four bolts at a time, and it fits in a Pelican case.

Anthropic signs $11.6bn Akamai cloud deal and gets warrant for 5% of Akamai
Anthropic signs $11.6bn Akamai cloud deal and gets warrant for 5% of Akamai

Anthropic has signed an $11.6bn, seven-year agreement to use Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai announced after the US market closed on Thursday. The deal can grow by a further $9bn, which would take the total to about $20bn. As part of the deal, Ak…

OpenAI agent got into Australia’s Medicare stats portal with 84-day notification delay

Australia says an OpenAI agent got past blocks on a Medicare statistics portal in June. OpenAI’s notification arrived in September.

Google Wallet got a lot of new tricks in 2026 – these 5 are my favorites

You can do a whole lot more than tap to pay with Google’s Wallet app.

The AI commerce era: 7 e-commerce leaders on what’s still broken
The AI commerce era: 7 e-commerce leaders on what’s still broken

Would you trust an AI agent to run your Amazon store? That future may be near. But true AI transformation requires moving beyond “gap-filling” AI tools. It requires building an infrastructure layer that lets AI agents create and manage their own workfl…

81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says
81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says

Most chief information officers cannot fully see the AI agents their staff build outside approved systems, a survey by Dataiku found. 81% of the 685 CIOs polled said they lack complete oversight of AI agents created outside formal channels. The Harris …

Could this be the most powerful mini PC ever? FEVM mini PC pairs Ryzen 9 9950X3D with 24GB RTX5090 GPU and should beat Apple’s M5 Ultra Mac Studio in gaming
Could this be the most powerful mini PC ever? FEVM mini PC pairs Ryzen 9 9950X3D with 24GB RTX5090 GPU and should beat Apple’s M5 Ultra Mac Studio in gaming

FEVM’s FA80G combines AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Nvidia’s 24GB RTX 5090 Laptop GPU inside a compact 2.6-liter gaming system.

Samsung Galaxy S26 FE review: false economy
Samsung Galaxy S26 FE review: false economy

There’s little actually wrong with the Galaxy S26 FE, but in costing more than its predecessor, it’s harder to recommend than other S26 models.