
Sky News - 11 hours 49 min ago
One person died and hundreds have been left ill with food poisoning after a salmonella outbreak, health officials warned.

New York Times - 12 hours 39 min ago
During the trial, to be held in the U.S. District Court of Oakland, Calif., four states are expected to argue that Meta violated federal child privacy and state consumer protection laws.

Newser - 14 hours 51 min ago
Women are helping build the AI future, but mostly not in the jobs that pay the most or wield the most power, as suggested by new data from LinkedIn . Axios cites that data to report that in 2025, women accounted for just 26% of new US hires in AI roles,...

Sky News - 15 hours 36 min ago
A federal trial against Meta alleging the tech giant contributed to a mental health crisis in young people opens today.

Science Alert - 18 hours 2 min ago
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GeekSpin - 22 hours 41 min ago
If your iPhone suddenly tells you that Apple detected a mercenary spyware attack targeting your device, don’t swipe it away like another annoying notification. Apple sent a fresh wave of its Threat Notifications on August 13 to targeted users across 110 countries, warning that they may have been individually targeted by sophisticated spyware. The company […] Read the original article here: Apple sends urgent spyware alert to iPhones in 110 countries...

New York Times - 1 day 28 min ago
Workers at the construction site for a data center in Piketon, Ohio, that will be built by a subsidiary of SoftBank and leased to OpenAI.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 57 min ago
It's not an all-in-one, but home printers don't get much better than this.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 1 hour ago
Yes, they're better than the one on your phone.

Air and Space - 1 day 2 hours ago
The Aussie experiment comes amid a lack of clear evidence that the apps harm most adolescents. It may take a dramatic research pivot to finally reveal what's going on and how to fix it.

The Conversation - 1 day 2 hours ago
Each person is a mosaic of sex-related and postpubertal biological traits that vary in their degree of femaleness and maleness.

NY Post - 1 day 4 hours ago
The Instagram parent claims it could face $1.4 trillion in damages nearly the size of its entire market cap based on how a coalition of state attorneys general argue that penalties should be calculated. The states say a more realistic figure if Meta loses the case would be a still-unprecedented $200 billion in...

Observer - 1 day 7 hours ago
American University's Casey Evans asks what parents are really paying for when A.I. can deliver much of the knowledge that once defined a college education. Evans argues that the strongest programs will be those that pair A.I. fluency with judgment, communication, adaptability and problem-solving.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 7 hours ago
The impact of AI on software development has been both profound and ever-evolving. Last year, I wrote about AMD's plans to use AI not just for generating new lines of code, but also for other steps in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), such as triaging problems, debugging code, and testing the software. At the time, we were hoping for a 25 percent productivity boost from AI use over the course of two or three years. But with each new release, the capabilities of Large Language Models...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 8 hours ago
The Motion Picture Assn. said it reached an agreement with ByteDance over its AI tools.

Newser - 1 day 9 hours ago
A stack of rare books led 404 Media straight to an Amazon operation that scans and destroys such works for its AI training. Reporter Emanuel Maiberg writes that his outlet slipped an Apple AirTag into an obscure title included in a 1,000-book bulk order placed through marketplace site Biblio ...

GeekSpin - 1 day 9 hours ago
It's always a wild ride when DEF CON wraps up in Sin City, and this year's “hacker summer camp” was no exception. What started as a standard flight home turned into an airborne cybersecurity incident when a Delta Air Lines flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta was hit by a mid-air Wi-Fi phishing attack. The […] Read the original article here: Fake Wi-Fi on Delta flight triggers federal investigation...

GeekSpin - 1 day 10 hours ago
What happens when seven decades of television history suddenly become inaccessible because a cloud storage company disappears? That is the nightmare now facing Nine PBS, which has reportedly lost access to more than 50TB of archival material spanning 70 years after its storage provider, Open Source Storage, went out of business. The archive includes programs, […] Read the original article here: PBS loses 70 years of TV archives to cloud mishap...

Science Alert - 1 day 10 hours ago
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NPR - 1 day 12 hours ago
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Fortune Magazine AI reporter Beatrice Nolan about the invisible watermark embedded in anything new models of Anthropic's AI assistant Claude processes.

BBC - 1 day 16 hours ago
US states are suing the social media giant to force an overhaul of its platforms for young users.