It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests / A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words …
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
Meta's Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe: "It's literally the gulag."
Morale within Meta's 6,500-staffer Applied AI team, which was created in March to support the Superintelligence Labs, is hitting rock bottom.
Just discovered that Qobuz published an AI charter. Thoughts?
Artificial intelligence is transforming the music industry at an unprecedented pace. Faced with the explosion of AI-generated content and the legitimate questions it raises, Qobuz has chosen transparency.
A $200 ChatGPT subscription could cost OpenAI $14,000 if you actually used it to its full potential
SemiAnalysis has calculated how big that gap really is. After testing subscription tiers from both OpenAI and Anthropic – running long-horizon coding and agentic tasks until weekly...
Starmer says Britain will ban under-16s from using a range of social media apps
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain will ban children under 16 from using social media apps like Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube from early next year.
Microsoft's GitHub capacity crunch sends it to AWS
Microsoft is adding AWS capacity for GitHub after AI-driven usage strained the developer platform, exposing Azure constraints and the infrastructure cost of agentic coding.
Fox to Acquire Roku in $22 Billion Deal
The buy will combine Fox's sports, news, and entertainment content and the Tubi streaming service with Roku’s connected TV platform, The Roku Channel.
UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including X, YouTube, TikTok
The UK has brought in a social media ban for under 16s that includes X, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and Reddit.
Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it
A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.
Stop Killing the Internet: Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions — and building a b…
Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions — and building a better internet.
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
A fake recruiter, a crypto repo, and a remote code execution payload hidden in a test file.
China’s universities cut 12,000 ‘obsolete’ degrees amid race to embrace AI era
The sweeping overhaul has affected over 30 per cent of China’s degree programmes, with arts and languages ditched in favour of tech-focused fields.
Bavarian Court Tells Gemini It Can’t Be A Real Boy Until It Tells The Truth
Does anyone like Google’s AI summaries? If so, they weren’t on the Judge’s bench in a specific Bavarian courtroom recently, where it was ruled that yes, Google is liable for the h…
Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn
The judge found that Meta’s attempt to blame the pirating of thousands of Vixen.com and Tushy.com porn videos on rogue employees “strains credulity.”
Are You Just a .md File? The SaaSpocalypse Survival Scanner
Find out if your SaaS can be replaced by a Claude Skill. The SaaSpocalypse Survival Scanner.
Access Now - Joint statement on AI in warfare
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accelerating the speed an…
Emily Blunt refused Steven Spielberg's offer to use AI for her alien voice in 'Disclosure Day'
Emily Blunt said she experimented with the alien language she uses in Steven Spielberg's "Disclosure Day" in her bathroom.
21 zero-day issues were found in FFmpeg
depthfirst's production autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, after intensive security analysis by Google and Anthropic. Moving beyond theoretical analysis, our agent produces concr…
Microsoft's new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows
New Outlook takes 10 seconds to show an email after clicking a Windows 11 notification. Outlook Classic does it instantly. Here's why.
He Helped Make America’s B-2 Stealth Bomber Nearly Invisible. Prosecutors Say He Then Handed Its Secrets to China
He helped make America's B-2 stealth bomber nearly invisible. Then prosecutors say he handed its secrets to China. Read the stunning story of Noshir...
AI is making promises your brand never made. Hotels are paying the price
When algorithms and recommendation engines set guest expectations, the brand gets the blame when reality falls short.
How Australia’s social media ban has affected families six months on
As UK ban for under-16s is confirmed, experience of Australian parents of similar restrictions has been mixed
Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal
Fox Corp. is making a dramatic move to expand its streaming footprint, unveiling with plans to buy Roku in a deal that values the streaming platform at $22 billion.
Starmer to unveil social media ban for under-16s
The UK will follow Australia’s example in raising the minimum age for sites including TikTok, Instagram and Facebook
Chinese Drivers Are Using Tiny Plastic Heads to Fool Tesla’s Autopilot Safeguards
A cottage industry of celebrity figurines, blinking screens, and other DIY gadgets is helping drivers bypass Tesla's distracted-driving controls.
UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X.
Social media platforms to be blocked from offering services to under-16s, marking a line in the sand and setting a new normal for future generations.
BYD Secretly Develops Humanoid Robot Codename 'Yao-Shun-Yu' as Auto Giants Race Into Embodied AI
BYD Secretly Develops Humanoid Robot Codename 'Yao-Shun-Yu' as Auto Giants Race Into Embodied AI BYD, China's largest electric vehicle manufacturer, has confirmed it is secretly developing humanoid robots under a projec…
UK: Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces
A 13-year-old pupil from Manchester says "it's time" for something to be done, while another says he's "annoyed and disappointed".
Three Inverse Laws of AI - Susam Pal
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot services have become increasingly sophisticated and popular. These systems are now embedded in search engines, software devel…
Zuckerberg says Meta made 'mistakes' in AI workforce shift
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told employees that the social media giant has made mistakes in its AI transformation of its workforce, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. Zuckerberg is pumping hundreds of bil…
'He was always in the right spot': How Brazil is betting on 'smart vests' in its bid for World Cup glory
Player tracking technology has helped the Brazilian football team gather years of data on its stars in the run up to the 2026 World Cup.
Dell SEC Filing Signals Fresh Round of Workforce Reductions
Dell Technologies Inc. has fueled intensive market speculation regarding a fresh wave of impending job cuts.
Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Straight Through Garage Door, Driver Says
A Washington driver's Tesla literally made an entrance by swerving into someone's garage door and smashing it completely open. Of course, because Tesla's autonomous driving software has a reputation for making dumb erro…
AI costs spike as subscriptions hit pricing wall — firms turn towards Chinese LLMs, open-source models to extend budget
A $200 ChatGPT subscription could cost as much as $14,000 in API pricing.
Frances Haugen: ‘We are worse off today than when I leaked the Facebook documents’
The whistleblower who exposed social media’s dangers to teenagers says the next major legal battle will be against the AI friends that minors interact with
Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time
The amount of solar power generated in the U.S. is continuing to grow.
China didn’t make Americans hate data centers
GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data-center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say itâs much more complicated than that.
Apple's Craig Federighi: Siri Won't Be Your AI Girlfriend
Apple software engineering chief Craig Federighi and marketing chief Greg Joswiak sat down for an interview with Mostly Human after during WWDC, discussing the iOS 27 Siri changes, Apple's take on AI, new child safety p…
Anthropic to disable Fable 5, Mythos 5 after US export-control order
Anthropic's latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, will be disabled due to US export controls that cited national security risks.
NYC Amazon Driver Fired Over Pro-Union TikToks
An Amazon driver from Queens posted frequent TikToks documenting her life on the job without incident — until she started speaking up in favor of a City Council bill that Amazon opposes.
US’ first vertically integrated solar factory starts production to power 1.3M homes
Qcells begins solar cell production in Georgia at the US' only fully integrated solar manufacturing facility.
0807: a self-hosted file host with self-destructing links. Open source, Tor, no logs
No account, no ads. Files disappear whenever you choose.
Nintendo reportedly has “zero chance” against current Palworld after major lawsuit change it is now targeting older versions of the game in…
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have reportedly narrowed their Palworld lawsuit to older versions of the game.
White House’s export limits on Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access
Trump adviser David Sacks said restrictions aren’t connected to prior conflicts with AI company.
Watch Your Kids: Inside a Children's Smartwatch
Join us as we hack at a popular children's smartwatch and expose the secrets of every fifth child in Norway, their parents, and millions ...
X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts
Site takes no action over hate posts against UK politicians including Kemi Badenoch, Shabana Mahmood and Zia Yusuf
(Creating) Data that is too dirty for "AI"
when datasets are scaled up to the volume of (partial) internet, together with the idea that scale will average out the noise, large dat...
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Sh*t’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
Executives and employees alike are struggling with Metaâs chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.
Opensource AI Must Win
Civilizational intelligence infrastructure must remain free to study, build, deploy, and run, not rented from closed institutions.