
NPR - 1 day 1 hour ago
There's been a lot of confusion and disruption about the legal authority the Trump administration has to suspend AI technology.

GeekSpin - 1 day 2 hours ago
London phone snatchers, the kind who whip past on a bike and grab an iPhone out of your hand, are running into a wall this year. Following a strategic partnership between the city’s Metropolitan Police Service and Apple, robbery numbers have dwindled. Interestingly, the partnership has nothing to do with catching phone thieves and more […] Read the original article here: Apple just made stolen iPhones much harder to sell...

The Atlantic - 1 day 4 hours ago
AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we've never seen before.

The Guardian - 1 day 6 hours ago
Elon Musk firm adds startup behind Cursor app to its portfolio with xAI and reaches $2.8tn market capitalisation Elon Musk's SpaceX is buying the startup behind the AI-powered coding app Cursor for $60bn and has moved ahead of Amazon in valuation days after its stock market debut . The company has agreed to buy Anysphere, which has capitalised on AI's success as a coding technology. Continue reading...

NBC News - 1 day 10 hours ago
A new Consumer Reports investigation finds Uber and Lyft customers are often given different fares when they book the same rides at the same time. While Uber and Lyft have long used surge pricing, the new findings are raising questions about whether the apps are using personalized or surveillance pricing based on customers' personal data. NBC's Vicky Nguyen reports for TODAY.

NBC News - 1 day 10 hours ago
The United Kingdom announced it is banning social media for children under 16, including Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, and it's going even further extending the ban to gaming services and live streaming platforms. NBC's Molly Hunter reports for TODAY from London.

GeekSpin - 1 day 11 hours ago
In late 2024, the Lenovo Tab Plus arrived as a low-cost Android tablet with a little extra namely, an eight-speaker sound system, making it a compelling family entertainment device at just $300. The Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2 is now on the way, and for $100 more, there are improvements across the board, including […] Read the original article here: Lenovo is putting a 9-speaker system in a $400 tablet...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 12 hours ago
Anthropic officials are expected to meet with the White House on Monday after the US government, citing national security concerns, ordered the company to cut off access to its latest AI models.

Vox - 1 day 12 hours ago
President Donald Trump speaks during a proclamation signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House on June 11, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Alex Wong/Getty Images In a sense, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is getting what he wanted. Amodei has long argued that AI is becoming dangerously powerful and thus, that regulatory restrictions on the technology are urgently needed. In an essay published last week, Amodei wrote that the release of cutting-edge AI models "should be blocked or reversed...

New Scientist - 1 day 13 hours ago
Inspired by Ariel Waldman's docuseries Life Unearthed, columnist Annalee Newitz explores how microscopes, drones and specialised cameras are giving us an unprecedented view of nature from many different vantage points...

Sky News - 1 day 14 hours ago
A row has broken out over the future of Dartmoor's ponies, with warnings livestock owners may be forced to cull them to hit biodiversity goals.

Newser - 1 day 15 hours ago
Stanford's commencement turned into a slow-motion walkout Sunday as Google chief Sundar Pichai began his keynote address . Video captured dozens of grads leaving their seats, some holding signs condemning Google's work with US government agencies, including one that read "ICE spies with Google AI," per the BBC . SFGate reports about...

The Atlantic - 2 days 1 hour ago
The White House is escalating its war against Anthropic.

Newser - 2 days 3 hours ago
Florida's attorney general is taking TikTok to court, accusing the app of breaking the state's online child-safety law and misleading parents about what kids actually see on the platform. James Uthmeier filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging the company targets minors, violates House Bill 3 which took effect last year ...

New Scientist - 2 days 7 hours ago
Physical Intelligence is drawing on the broad knowledge of large language models to help robots understand instructions and learn to carry out any task independently...

Science Alert - 2 days 19 hours ago
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