Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info
Turns out, agents just want the same things as humans: easily-readable code, explicit contracts, and helpful feedback
Tesla suffers worst slump since 2022, SpaceX drops ahead of Starship test flight
Tesla shares plunged almost 18% this week after the company missed on earnings and turned cash flow negative.
Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.
A new liquid battery stores solar heat for weeks
Scientists have engineered a water-soluble pyrimidone molecule that captures solar heat and releases it days or weeks later—enough to boil water on demand.
Watch These Judges Rip Into Lawyers For Citing Cases That Don't Exist
“It's striking, concerning, disappointing, and saddening to think that members of the bar would forward cases to a court that don't exist, and to think that the lawyers on the other side of that didn’t read it for whate…
Google wants your phone to track your heart rate by simply looking at you
Your next heart-rate monitor may not be a smartwatch at all. Google's latest research hints at a surprisingly simple alternative.
FitMyLLM — Independent benchmarks for self-hosted AI
Independent benchmarks for every model, GPU, and cloud provider. Measured, not estimated. 428 models, 1720 GPUs, multi-provider cloud comparisons.
Android Sideloading: New Rules, Advanced Flow & What Users Need to Know (2026) - World Today Journal
Google is implementing significant changes to the way users sideload applications on Android devices, a practice that allows installation of apps from sources
Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center in Just Months, Survey Finds
A recent survey shows a dramatic swing against new data center construction.
Suspect Arrested After Molotov Cocktail Thrown at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
A 20-year-old man was arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms” like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage, if they publi…
The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”
Benevolent dictator Zuck will give Meta staff 30-minute breaks from keylogging privacy assault
Tech biz teaching AI to use computers by slurping staff activity
A 29-year-old man has created magnetic cement, and his invention promises to revolutionize a construction sector that has not undergone a t…
A 29-year-old’s magnetic cement could end drilling walls, turning everyday surfaces into flexible, reusable storage systems
Signal, DuckDuckGo among firms weighing Canada exit over lawful access bill - National | Globalnews.ca
Signal is among the most prominent platforms to make such a threat while speaking out against Bill C-22, while VPN providers have also threatened to leave or curtail services.
Seattle poised to ban new datacenters, the largest city yet in the US to consider such a moratorium
Measure in Amazon and Microsoft’s backyard expected to succeed next week as backlash grows amid AI boom
GoPro is in serious financial trouble. Action camera giant is at risk for potential bankruptcy
The latest financial filings from the action camera giant cast doubt on GoPro’s ability to return to profitability within the next 12 months
The deepest strategy e-sport you've never heard of.
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Fully programmable microrobots operate at cellular scale using nanowatt power
New cell-scale robots can sense their environment, compute decisions, and move independently without magnetic or ultrasonic control systems.
YouTube blocked the channels of Russian artists under sanctions in Ukraine
YouTube has restricted access in Ukraine to the channels of a number of Russian and pro-Russian artists who are under sanctions by the National Security and Defense Council. These are show business and cultural figures …
Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows
App is installed through Windows Update when certain LG monitors connect to a PC.
GreenX Metals: 2026 Fieldwork Underway at Eleonore North gold/tungsten/antimony exploration project in Greenland. Potential source of rare …
TARGETING GOLD, TUNGSTEN AND ANTIMONY MINERALISATION HIGHLIGHTS - Active exploration underway at the Eleonore North Project, located in East Greenland. The field team are following up high-priority gold, tungsten, and a…
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I'm doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food …
FromSoftware's The Duskbloods still doesn't have a release date, but there's a Switch 2 playtest coming soon
14 months after the The Duskbloods' eye-catching announcement, FromSoftware has announced a playtest is imminent.
In the Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos, OpenAI Has a New Cybersecurity Model—and Strategy
OpenAI says its safeguards âsufficiently reduce cyber riskâ for now, while GPT-5.4-Cyber is a new cybersecurity-focused model.
EFF is Leaving X | Electronic Frontier Foundation
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
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Google DeepMind CEO says we don't have much time to prepare for the 'new human era'
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said AGI is just a few years a way and that humanity doesn't have much time to prepare for it.
"Keeping teams together doesn't seem to matter to people, but for us it did": Star Wars Zero Company's director on what the industry can le…
In an industry that is facing wave after wave of layoffs, Greg Foertsch details how keeping the XCOM team together made for a better sequel.
A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI
Cloud software firm Teradata has told employees not to expect annual salary raises in 2026, and says it is putting the money towards AI instead.
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'Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until ne…
Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm’s latest data.
Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen – Announcement Trailer
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Paramount and Warner Bros. Pause $110 Billion Merger Deal Until June 2027 or Court Ruling
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced securing an agreement with Warner Bros. and Paramount that would keep the entertainment titans from merging until June 1, 2027, or until after a decision b…
ChatGPT medical advice brought man 'to brink of death', lawsuit alleges
An American man sues OpenAI and its founder Sam Altman, claiming the popular chatbot "repeatedly misdiagnosed" him.
Scientists Invented a Disease to Test Whether A.I. Knew It Was Fake. Then, Chatbots Started Saying It Was Real
The eye condition bixonimania doesn't exist, but neither bots nor some researchers caught that the content was fabricatedâdespite obvious clues
FTC Seeks Comment on X Corp. Petition to Set Aside or Modify FTC Order Concerning Twitter
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on a petition from X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, to set aside or modify its
Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks
Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped.
Godot gets a funding boost from Slay the Spire 2 devs Mega Crit
The Godot Engine team have announced that Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit have given them quite a nice funding boost.
First human trial of reverse-aging drug begins
Don’t expect a pill to take you back to 21 any time soon.
Meet the Robot That Nurses Unplugged—Spinning in circles and crying for help, Moxi robots became another charge to care for, nurses said.
Spinning in circles and crying for help, Moxi robots became another charge to care for, nurses said.
GOV.UK goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe
Means residents can skip the credit card and use 'pay by bank' for local authorities and services
The Pulse: Interesting AI coding stats from Cursor
Power users generate 10x as many lines of code vs the median, most of the AI spend is coming from input tokens not output ones, and almost half of AI changes are accepted without manual review by devs (!!)
Tesla Stock in Freefall After Disastrous Earnings Report
Investors aren't feeling Musk's attempt to reinvent Tesla.
“God has helped us, and so will AI”: How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI
The Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy (CASP) is an interdisciplinary research programme on frontier AI at the University of Cambridge.
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Jellyfin and Codeberg hurt themselves in their confusion
The zero-days are numbered | The Mozilla Blog
Since February, the Firefox team has been working around the clock using frontier AI models to find and fix latent security vulnerabilities in the browser.
TIL steak Canadian was not invented in Canada and almost no one in Canada knows what it is.
Despite its name, the sandwich, which recently went viral on YouTube, is a purely British phenomenon.
Researchers say social media accounts affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard posed as Scottish and Irish citizens
Researchers say that social media accounts affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps posed as Scottish and Irish nationals in order to cultivate their following, before switching their narrative to spread…