AMD denies researcher a $10,000 bug bounty after fixing critical auto-updater vulnerability — security flaw took 124 days to patch
Quis renovatores renovat — who updates the updater?
Disgraced FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Loses Appeal of 25-Year Sentence
An appeals court rejected former billionaire and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s claim that his trial was unfair.
WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing
WhatsApp for Windows is a slow, RAM-hungry web wrapper. With Microsoft committed to WinUI, there's no excuse not to build a native app.
Nintendo's Palworld Lawsuit Is Falling Apart
Nintendo's patent lawsuit against Palworld gets a preliminary end date, as well as some changes suggesting it's falling apart.
Justice Department seizes websites that published deepfake nudes of famous women
The DOJ says the domains were used to publish digitally forged nude and sexual images and videos of women without their consent. According to the Justice Department,...
Washington Post subscriber sues news outlet, accuses it of using ‘surveillance pricing’ to gouge readers
Court papers allege that The Post began ‘covertly harvesting’ readers’ data from after Jeff Bezos paid $250 million for it in 2013
Stanford scientists regrow lost cartilage and reverse arthritis in major breakthrough
A new treatment that blocks an aging-related protein restored lost cartilage in old mice and helped prevent arthritis after knee injuries. Human cartilage samples showed similar signs of regeneration, raising hopes for …
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
The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months
Starting with the next major release, Chromium will stop supporting Manifest V2 extensions. The change will affect users who have clung to uBlock Origin in Chrome, Edge,...
(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...
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 ...
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.
Opensource AI Must Win
Civilizational intelligence infrastructure must remain free to study, build, deploy, and run, not rented from closed institutions.
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.
‘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.
Class of AI Models Hyped as Scarily Powerful Apparently Scared the Government Too Much and Now They’re Disabled
According to a statement posted to its website on Friday, Anthropic was forced to “abruptly disable” two of its most prized frontier AI models in response to a highly restrictive U.S. government order. “We believe this …
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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…
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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…
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".
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.
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…
0807: a self-hosted file host with self-destructing links. Open source, Tor, no logs
No account, no ads. Files disappear whenever you choose.
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.
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…
'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.
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…
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
A fake recruiter, a crypto repo, and a remote code execution payload hidden in a test file.
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.
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…
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.”
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.
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.
The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games
Stop Killing Games is challenging the idea publishers can shut down a game without making sure it's still playable.