
The New Yorker - 22 hours 6 min ago
From the daily newsletter: scientists have found new proof that the Founding Father had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings.

GeekSpin - 22 hours 32 min ago
An AI assistant is supposed to make your life easier. Muse, Meta's new AI agent for Mac, may have also made things easier for hackers. Security researcher Patrick Wardle discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Muse that could allow an attacker who already had code running on a Mac to take control of the AI agent […] Read the original article here: Experts warn Meta’s new AI assistant exposes Macs to hackers...

The Atlantic - 1 day 4 min ago
The country's most prominent AI companies are focused on beating the U.S., no matter the cost.

NPR - 1 day 6 min ago
The Nvidia CEO is a relentless AI optimist with the president's ear. Stephen Witt, author of The Thinking Machine, tells NPR's Juana Summers how their relationship could shape the future of AI.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 1 hour ago
Apple's latest Pro iPhones rewrite the playbook for phone cameras.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 1 hour ago
YouTube has renewed its exclusive Coachella livestream deal with Goldenvoice through 2030, after the 2026 festival set a record for concurrent viewers.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 1 hour ago
Amazon's first art TV gets the look right and undercuts Samsung's Frame on price, but there are a few trade-offs.

Vox - 1 day 1 hour ago
The question "Should I kill humans?" is projected onto a wall behind robot "Alfie," a Moral Choice Machine. | Arne Dedert/picture alliance via Getty Images If there's one thing that Americans can unite behind, it's anxieties over artificial intelligence. According to a recent NBC News/Decision Desk poll , 70 percent of adults say they are personally more worried than excited about the technology; it's basically underwater in every area of society with one notable exception:...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 2 hours ago
Ad-free Disney+ and Hulu now cost $21.49 a month each, up $2.50, while the ad-free bundle rises to just $21.99. Here's what's changing and when.

The New York Observer - 1 day 5 hours ago
Raquel Urtasun explains how Waabi is training its autonomous trucks and Uber robotaxis without relying on billions of miles of driving data.

Sky News - 1 day 6 hours ago
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Variety - 1 day 8 hours ago
Kerry Washington is turning her “Street You Grew Up On” interview show, which she has run in four discrete seasons over the last several years, into an ongoing weekly podcast. The actress, producer and director, best known for her role on ABC’s “Scandal,” first launched the show as a digital series in 2021 during the […]...

Air and Space - 1 day 8 hours ago
New research shows that proboscis bats communicate with each other and echolocate at higher frequencies than scientists expected. This could help the animals sneak up to their targets and evade creatures that want to eat them...

Sky News - 1 day 10 hours ago
The UK is setting up its first space squadron to defend crucial satellites and detect hostile missile attacks.

Variety - 1 day 20 hours ago
"Looksmaxxing" influencer Clavicular has shared his first video on social media since news circulated Monday that the online personality had been charged with rape and drugging in Massachusetts. In the video posted to both TikTok and Instagram, Clavicular includes a compilation of screenshots of text messages with a contact named "Leksy," a video of himself […]...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 21 hours ago
The newest upgrade adds longer battery life and sharper accuracy, among other improvements, into a familiar chassis.

NY Post - 1 day 23 hours ago
The notorious hacking group says it targeted the FBI after the agency detailed its methods and advised against paying ransoms.

NY Post - 2 days 56 min ago
"So much of the narrative about Doge has been written from people who weren't inside the room," Tyler Hassen told The Post.

NY Post - 2 days 2 hours ago
We talk a lot about young people's dependence on technology, but what if their parents and grandparents are quietly developing the same concerning digital habits?...

Observer - 2 days 6 hours ago
When valuable works of art move between museums, galleries, shippers and temporary crews, chain of custody and access control are as important as alarms and physical barriers. Acre Security's Kumar Sokka argues that the greatest risks emerge in the gaps between people, systems and moments of responsibility.

Variety - 2 days 7 hours ago
Xbox has laid off an additional 268 employees this week as part of its previously announced job-eliminations plan. The new cuts primarily affect Halo Studios, other first-party studios and the XGS management and central functions layer, Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty said in a memo to staff Tuesday. Amid the cuts, the Microsoft-owned gaming […]...

Observer - 2 days 9 hours ago
For years, the data center boom was financed by sovereign wealth, private equity and bank debt. Now Nscale, Vantage and Humain are testing whether public investors will finance the next phase of A.I. infrastructure.

NPR - 2 days 12 hours ago
Opposition to data centers has grown into one of the year's major political movements. What is the impact on local jobs and the economy when a data center comes to town?...