
- Seminole Nation Becomes First Indigenous Group to Ban Planet-Cooking Data Centers From Its Land
The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma just became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction from lands under its jurisdiction. After a tech startup approached Seminole leaders asking to allow a data center… Read more: Seminole Nation Becomes First Indigenous Group to Ban Planet-Cooking Data Centers From Its Land - Ominous Surveillance “Scarecrows” Appearing Across America
Police technology is a major business in the US. Altogether, the law enforcement equipment market was valued at nearly $11.7 billion in 2025, and as dystopian toys like self-driving squad cars and crime fighting drone… Read more: Ominous Surveillance “Scarecrows” Appearing Across America - New York’s Beloved Bodegas Are Filling Up With AI Slop
Not even the most enduring symbol of New York city is safe from the AI onslaught. No, we’re not talking about the iconic pizza rat, or even the stable of mascots wandering Times Square like… Read more: New York’s Beloved Bodegas Are Filling Up With AI Slop - Explanation for why we don’t see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails
Three-hundred million years ago, the skies of the late Palaeozoic era were buzzing with giant insects. Meganeuropsis permiana, a predatory insect resembling a modern-day dragonfly, had a wingspan of over 70 centimeters and weighed 100… Read more: Explanation for why we don’t see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails - Scientists Discover Giant ‘Cavity’ Beyond Earth That Isn’t Supposed to Exist
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that gave birth to a one-ton baby, captured a legendary move on film, discovered a hole in space, and imagined our brains on Mars.… Read more: Scientists Discover Giant ‘Cavity’ Beyond Earth That Isn’t Supposed to Exist - Alarming Study Finds That Most People Just Do What ChatGPT Tells Them, Even If It’s Totally Wrong
In a matter of only a few years, AI chatbots have become a common part of many of our daily lives, even though they remain deeply flawed systems. The reality is that chatbots like OpenAI’s… Read more: Alarming Study Finds That Most People Just Do What ChatGPT Tells Them, Even If It’s Totally Wrong - Scientists discover a hidden system that turns brown fat into a calorie burner
Scientists have identified a key biological system that helps brown fat burn energy by building the networks it needs to function. A protein called SLIT3 splits into two parts, with each piece guiding the growth… Read more: Scientists discover a hidden system that turns brown fat into a calorie burner - Scientists discover why your appetite suddenly disappears when you’re sick
Scientists have uncovered how your body actually tells your brain to stop eating when you’re sick. In a new study, researchers found that specialized cells in the gut detect parasites and send signals that ultimately… Read more: Scientists discover why your appetite suddenly disappears when you’re sick - Popular sugar substitute linked to brain damage and stroke risk
A widely used sugar substitute found in everything from keto snacks to diet drinks may not be as harmless as it seems. New research shows that erythritol can disrupt brain blood vessel cells, reducing their… Read more: Popular sugar substitute linked to brain damage and stroke risk - How new fishing tech can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures
Our oceans are full of sophisticated, perfect traps: Nets, hooks, fishing lines. Designed to capture animals destined for our dinner tables, they often catch other wildlife too. This accidental harvest is known as bycatch, and… Read more: How new fishing tech can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures - After 20 years, scientists finally explain the Crab Pulsar’s strange “zebra stripes”
For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by strange “zebra stripe” patterns in radio waves from the Crab Pulsar — bright bands separated by complete darkness. Now, new research suggests the answer lies in a cosmic… Read more: After 20 years, scientists finally explain the Crab Pulsar’s strange “zebra stripes” - Getting formal about quantum mechanics’ lack of causality
Over a decade ago, when I was first starting to pretend I could write about quantum mechanics, I covered a truly bizarre experiment. One half of a pair of entangled photons was sent through a… Read more: Getting formal about quantum mechanics’ lack of causality - This new carbon material could make carbon capture far more affordable
Scientists have created a new kind of carbon material that could make carbon capture much cheaper and more efficient. By carefully controlling how nitrogen atoms are arranged, they found certain structures capture CO2 better and… Read more: This new carbon material could make carbon capture far more affordable - Solar cells just did the “impossible” with this 130% breakthrough
A new solar breakthrough may overcome a long-standing efficiency barrier. Researchers used a “spin-flip” metal complex to capture and multiply energy from sunlight through singlet fission. The result reached about 130% efficiency, meaning more energy… Read more: Solar cells just did the “impossible” with this 130% breakthrough - US embassy in Mexico prompts outrage with AI video promoting ‘self-deportation’
AI-generated footage depicts group of men performing a corrido, singing phrases including ‘return to your roots’ An AI-generated video from the US embassy in Mexico encouraging migrants to “self-deport” has sparked disbelief and outrage online.… Read more: US embassy in Mexico prompts outrage with AI video promoting ‘self-deportation’ - ‘Our assumptions are broken’: how fraudulent church data revealed AI’s threat to polling
Experts say paid participants are using automated tools to generate unreliable survey responses at scale If you had been keeping tabs on the news about church attendance in Britain lately, you would be forgiven for… Read more: ‘Our assumptions are broken’: how fraudulent church data revealed AI’s threat to polling - If Trump’s War in Iran Spirals Into a Full-Blown Recession, It Could Crush the AI Industry and Spark a Catastrophic Polycrisis
Far be it from tech writers to chart yield curves or forecast jobs data, but it doesn’t take a tenured econ professor to notice the sorry state of the financial world. Thanks to Trump’s disastrous… Read more: If Trump’s War in Iran Spirals Into a Full-Blown Recession, It Could Crush the AI Industry and Spark a Catastrophic Polycrisis - ‘They feel true’: political deepfakes are growing in influence – even if people know they aren’t real
AI images of people – such as women in military contexts – are making money and serving as propaganda, researchers say Online content creators are not just building fake images and videos of prominent public… Read more: ‘They feel true’: political deepfakes are growing in influence – even if people know they aren’t real - These CEOs want a starring role in our lives – and there’s not much we can do about it | Larry Ryan
Do we really need a McDonald’s CEO fronting ads or a Gianni Infantino Panini sticker? No. But in the age of Trump, the boss class feels emboldened A few weeks ago, the CEO of McDonald’s… Read more: These CEOs want a starring role in our lives – and there’s not much we can do about it | Larry Ryan - Scientists say we’ve been looking in the wrong place for human origins
A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all… Read more: Scientists say we’ve been looking in the wrong place for human origins - Watch the Earth split in real time: Stunning footage captures a 2.5-meter fault slip in seconds
A massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar in March 2025, but what makes this event extraordinary is what happened next. For the first time, a nearby CCTV camera captured the fault rupture in real time,… Read more: Watch the Earth split in real time: Stunning footage captures a 2.5-meter fault slip in seconds - Outbreak linked to raw cheese grows; 9 cases total, one with kidney failure
Two more illnesses have been identified in an E. coli outbreak linked to unpasteurized cheese and milk, the Food and Drug Administration reported Thursday. The maker of the products, California-based Raw Farm, continues to deny… Read more: Outbreak linked to raw cheese grows; 9 cases total, one with kidney failure - With new plugins feature, OpenAI officially takes Codex beyond coding
OpenAI has added plugin support to its agentic coding app Codex in an apparent attempt to match similar features offered by competitors Anthropic (in Claude Code) and Google (in Gemini’s command line interface). What OpenAI… Read more: With new plugins feature, OpenAI officially takes Codex beyond coding - Playing Wolfenstein 3D with one hand in 2026
Like practically everyone who owned a PC in the early ’90s, I tore through the shareware episode of Wolfenstein 3D shortly after it came out. At the time, the game’s mere existence seemed like a… Read more: Playing Wolfenstein 3D with one hand in 2026 - AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics
A policy change announced by NeurIPS, the world’s leading AI research conference, drew widespread backlash from Chinese researchers this week and then was quickly reversed. - AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec
AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) was invented by a group of technology companies to be an open, royalty-free alternative to other video codecs, like HEVC/H.265. But a lawsuit that Dolby Laboratories Inc. filed this week against… Read more: AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec - 6 Best Gemini Photo Editing Prompts in 2026: How to Get Better AI Images
Discover six powerful Gemini AI photo editing prompts that help you transform selfies, product shots, and portraits with professional results. The post 6 Best Gemini Photo Editing Prompts in 2026: How to Get Better AI… Read more: 6 Best Gemini Photo Editing Prompts in 2026: How to Get Better AI Images - Judge irate as defendant joins by Zoom while driving—then lies about it
A local judge in Woodhaven, Michigan, lost it this week when a defendant showed up to her court hearing late, on Zoom, and… while driving a car. Kimberly Carroll was facing a hearing over a… Read more: Judge irate as defendant joins by Zoom while driving—then lies about it - Hegseth, Trump had no authority to order Anthropic to be blacklisted, judge says
“Classic First Amendment retaliation.” That’s how US District Judge Rita Lin described the Department of War’s effort to blacklist Anthropic and designate it a supply-chain risk. By all appearances, “these measures appear designed to punish… Read more: Hegseth, Trump had no authority to order Anthropic to be blacklisted, judge says - Inside Ford’s AI-Driven Approach to Scaling Dealer Analysis
FordDirect used AI agents in Domo to automate dealer analysis, cut turnaround time, and deliver insights that helped win back at-risk dealerships. The post Inside Ford’s AI-Driven Approach to Scaling Dealer Analysis appeared first on… Read more: Inside Ford’s AI-Driven Approach to Scaling Dealer Analysis - Ultralightweight sonar plus AI lets tiny drones navigate like bats
This small drone is using sonar, similar to bats’ echolocation, to navigate through a grove of trees. Nitin Sanket To help small aerial robots navigate in the dark and other low-visibility environments, my colleagues and… Read more: Ultralightweight sonar plus AI lets tiny drones navigate like bats - No one is happy with NASA’s new idea for private space stations
Most elements of a major NASA event this week that laid out spaceflight plans for the coming decade were well received: a Moon base, a focus on less talk and more action, and working with… Read more: No one is happy with NASA’s new idea for private space stations - Sony is raising PlayStation 5 prices again, this time by between $100 and $150
Memory and storage shortages and price hikes that started hitting PC components late last year have steadily rippled outward across all kinds of consumer tech—some products have disappeared, gone out of stock, or been delayed, and others have undergone… Read more: Sony is raising PlayStation 5 prices again, this time by between $100 and $150 - DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email was hacked
Iran-linked hackers successfully broke into FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email, the Department of Justice confirmed to Reuters on Friday. Reuters could not authenticate the leaked emails themselves but noted that the Gmail address matched… Read more: DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email was hacked - Inside Bissell’s 48-Hour AI Sprint That Changed How It Uses Data
Bissell cut through AI hype by building five real workflows in just two days, turning skepticism into measurable results across customer service and analytics. The post Inside Bissell’s 48-Hour AI Sprint That Changed How It… Read more: Inside Bissell’s 48-Hour AI Sprint That Changed How It Uses Data - At last, David has landed a double punch on the tech Goliaths. Now to hit them even harder | Jonathan Freedland
The US court verdicts declaring Meta liable for getting people addicted and ruining lives must be just the start of a global fightback Good news is so rare these days, you don’t quite know how… Read more: At last, David has landed a double punch on the tech Goliaths. Now to hit them even harder | Jonathan Freedland - AI makes rewilding look tame – and misses its messy reality
‘Create an image of what rewilding in England looks like’, according to ChatGPT. Image generated by The Conversation using ChatGPT., CC BY-SA Humans have always imagined the natural world. From Ice Age cave paintings to… Read more: AI makes rewilding look tame – and misses its messy reality - A Reporter Tried Cooking Actual AI-Generated Recipes and the Results Are Stomach-Churning
The AI industry and its legions of AI bros are hellbent on force-feeding everyone AI slop. Most of us encounter these surreal monstrosities as an assault on our eyeballs: weird TikToks of humanoid animals living… Read more: A Reporter Tried Cooking Actual AI-Generated Recipes and the Results Are Stomach-Churning - Apple pulls the plug on its high-priced, oft-neglected Mac Pro desktop
After more than a decade of flirting with the idea, Apple has finally discontinued the Mac Pro tower. The company confirmed to 9to5Mac that the latest Mac Pro iteration—an M2 Ultra model first released in… Read more: Apple pulls the plug on its high-priced, oft-neglected Mac Pro desktop - Slopaganda and Sora, lol
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss getting stories from Twitter, the metaverse, and… Read more: Slopaganda and Sora, lol - Fighting financial crime with hybrid AI
I’ve been in the data game long enough to see plenty of AI projects crash and burn. I started my career building data warehouses for telcos and banks, then moved into machine learning consulting, where… Read more: Fighting financial crime with hybrid AI - AI Upgrades, Security Breaches, and Industry Shifts Define This Week in Tech
See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from March 23–27. The post AI Upgrades, Security Breaches, and Industry Shifts Define This Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic. - iPhone’s Next Upgrade: Siri Could Soon Run on Gemini, Claude, and More
Apple may open Siri to rival AI models like Gemini and Claude in iOS 27, signaling a shift toward a more flexible, app-based AI ecosystem. The post iPhone’s Next Upgrade: Siri Could Soon Run on… Read more: iPhone’s Next Upgrade: Siri Could Soon Run on Gemini, Claude, and More - Rocket Report: Russia reopens gateway to ISS; Cape Canaveral hosts missile test
Welcome to Edition 8.35 of the Rocket Report! The headlines this week are again dominated by the big changes afoot in NASA’s exploration program, with the announcement of a Moon base and a nuclear-powered rocket… Read more: Rocket Report: Russia reopens gateway to ISS; Cape Canaveral hosts missile test - AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip
For about four years now, AMD has offered special “X3D” variants of its high-end desktop processors with an extra 64MB of L3 cache attached, an addition that disproportionately benefits games. AMD calls this “3D V-Cache”… Read more: AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip - Senators want US energy information agency to monitor data center electricity usage
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican Senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually use. In a joint letter sent to… Read more: Senators want US energy information agency to monitor data center electricity usage - Rivian and VW Group complete winter testing of new zonal architecture
RV Tech, a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and Rivian, has completed a successful winter test program, it said this morning. The partnership was created in 2024 when VW Group announced it would invest $5.8… Read more: Rivian and VW Group complete winter testing of new zonal architecture - Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War
An AI-generated LEGO movie out of Iran depicting Trump as a war hungry pedophile has gone viral online. The video is the work of Iran-based propagandists called the “Explosive News Team” and is just the… Read more: Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War - Anthropic Just Leaked Upcoming Model With “Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks” in the Most Ironic Way Possible
As companies continue to burn through billions of dollars by running massively resource-hungry AI models — and only passing on a fraction of the costs to consumers and enterprise clients — the AI race shows… Read more: Anthropic Just Leaked Upcoming Model With “Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks” in the Most Ironic Way Possible - Apple Still Plans to Sell iPhones When It Turns 100
As the tech giant turns 50, WIRED spoke to executives about how they plan to win in the AI era. - If Your Job Involves Using Your Brain, You May Be in Big Trouble, Tufts Report Finds
As fears over an AI-driven jobs apocalypse continue to grow, researchers are trying to get a better sense of which occupations will be most — and least — affected. Tech leaders continue to cite AI… Read more: If Your Job Involves Using Your Brain, You May Be in Big Trouble, Tufts Report Finds - Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia
Ban includes two exceptions: AI can still be used for translations, and to make minor copy edits Wikipedia has banned the use of artificial intelligence in the generation or rewriting of content for its voluminous… Read more: Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia - BigID Extends Data Access Governance to AI Agents
Expansion of BigID’s DAG and DAM capabilities brings identity controls, least-privilege enforcement, and real-time activity monitoring to non-human AI entities BigID today announced the expansion of its Data Access Governance (DAG) capabilities to cover AI… Read more: BigID Extends Data Access Governance to AI Agents - Scientists discover why cancer drugs don’t work for everyone
Scientists have uncovered a hidden reason why cancer treatments don’t work equally well for everyone. Certain drugs can become trapped inside lysosomes within tumor cells, forming slow-release reservoirs that create uneven drug distribution. This means… Read more: Scientists discover why cancer drugs don’t work for everyone - Why pay for proprietary search APIs when you can synthesize research agents offline?
Deep learning has mastered many narrow domains. Image recognition works. Language understanding works. But training agents that can actually conduct research, that can search through vast information repositories, extract evidence, and synthesize answers, remains unsolved.… Read more: Why pay for proprietary search APIs when you can synthesize research agents offline? - The ‘ground truth’ gap in AgTech: Why satellites alone can’t save supply chains
The Earth observation sector is experiencing a golden age. Satellite hardware and launch costs have plummeted, and computer power, driven by AI and analytics, continues to improve. That’s led to […] The post The ‘ground… Read more: The ‘ground truth’ gap in AgTech: Why satellites alone can’t save supply chains - DXC Named Among Fortune’s America’s Most Innovative Companies 2026
DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, today announced it has been recognized for the first time on Fortune’s America’s Most Innovative Companies list. In its fourth edition, the America’s Most Innovative Companies… Read more: DXC Named Among Fortune’s America’s Most Innovative Companies 2026 - Scientists discover “alien space weather stations” that could reveal habitable planets
Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ magnetic fields.… Read more: Scientists discover “alien space weather stations” that could reveal habitable planets - Scientists stunned as Mars dust storms blast water into space
Mars may look like a frozen desert today, but new evidence suggests its watery past didn’t simply fade away quietly—it may have been blasted into space by powerful dust storms. Scientists have discovered that even… Read more: Scientists stunned as Mars dust storms blast water into space - Scientists discover bizarre new states inside tiny magnetic whirlpools
Researchers have uncovered a new way to generate exotic oscillation states in tiny magnetic structures—using only minimal energy. By exciting magnetic waves, they triggered a delicate motion that produced a rich spectrum of signals never… Read more: Scientists discover bizarre new states inside tiny magnetic whirlpools - Ocean species are disappearing before scientists can even find them
Species are vanishing faster than ever, and many are disappearing before scientists even know they exist. Now, an international team is racing against time to uncover hidden life beneath the waves by building a massive… Read more: Ocean species are disappearing before scientists can even find them - Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says
Exclusive: Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emails without permission AI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last… Read more: Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says - Luma Health Welcomes Puneet Arora as Chief Growth Officer
Arora brings experience scaling SaaS and AI platforms as Luma accelerates growth, serving 160M patients across 1,300+ health systems by end of 2026 Following 39% CARR growth in 2026, Luma Health, the Operational AI platform for healthcare, has… Read more: Luma Health Welcomes Puneet Arora as Chief Growth Officer - Bits AI Security Analyst Reduces Threat Investigation Time by up to 98%
New AI agent automates investigations with senior SOC analyst expertise at machine scale and speed to deliver accurate, fully explained verdicts that dramatically reduce remediation times Datadog, Inc., (NASDAQ: DDOG), the leading AI-powered observability and… Read more: Bits AI Security Analyst Reduces Threat Investigation Time by up to 98% - FPT Named for Agentic AI at 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards
Global IT corporation FPT has been recognized in the Agentic AI category at the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards for IvyChat, its enterprise-grade agentic AI platform. Presented by the Business Intelligence Group, the award recognizes organizations, products,… Read more: FPT Named for Agentic AI at 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards - I Asked ChatGPT 500 Questions. Here Are the Ads I Saw Most Often
Ads are rolling out across the US on ChatGPT’s free tier. I asked OpenAI’s bot 500 questions to see what these ads were like and how they related to my prompts. - A New AI Documentary Puts CEOs in the Hot Seat—but Goes Too Easy on Them
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist seeks the middle ground on a polarizing technology—and ends up letting tech execs like Sam Altman off the hook. - MiTAC Leads with AI-Ready, Liquid Cooling at CloudFest 2026
MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation, a global leader in high-performance and energy-efficient server solutions, and a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings Corporation (TWSE:3706), is highlighting its latest AI-ready infrastructure, OCP-compliant platforms, and liquid cooling innovations at CloudFest 2026 (Booth… Read more: MiTAC Leads with AI-Ready, Liquid Cooling at CloudFest 2026 - Fabrix.ai Featured in Multiple Gartner Agentic AI Reports
Fabrix’s Agentic AI Platform Earns Analyst Recognition in Six Distinct Gartner Research Reports Fabrix.ai, the enterprise agentic operational intelligence platform company, today announced it has been recognized across multiple Gartner research reports on agentic AI… Read more: Fabrix.ai Featured in Multiple Gartner Agentic AI Reports - AI swarms are coming: Here’s why it matters
For the past two years, the dominant mental model of AI has been simple: one powerful model, one prompt, one response. Think copilots, chatbots, and assistants, polished, helpful, and fundamentally, solo performers. That model is… Read more: AI swarms are coming: Here’s why it matters - I was paid to write fake Google reviews – then my ‘bosses’ tried to scam me
Undercover reporter gets a taste of the sprawling fraud industry in which cryptocurrencies play a crucial role Five firms including Autotrader and Just Eat investigated over fake review failings The holiday flat near(ish) the Roman… Read more: I was paid to write fake Google reviews – then my ‘bosses’ tried to scam me - MindBridge Launches Developer Portal for Financial Oversight
The new technical hub gives developers, partners, and enterprise teams a clear path to embed continuous financial oversight into existing systems as finance becomes increasingly autonomous MindBridge has launched its Developer Portal, a centralized hub… Read more: MindBridge Launches Developer Portal for Financial Oversight - Scientists create clear nail polish that lets you use touchscreens with long nails
Using a smartphone with long nails can be frustrating, forcing people to awkwardly tap with their fingertips instead of their nails. Now, researchers are working on a clear nail polish that could change that by… Read more: Scientists create clear nail polish that lets you use touchscreens with long nails - Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold
Scientists have developed a breakthrough “superfood” for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in pollen. In controlled trials, colonies fed this specially designed diet produced up to 15 times more… Read more: Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold - Federal judge sides with Anthropic in first round of standoff with Pentagon
Face-off is over company’s refusal to let defense department use its Claude AI model in autonomous weapons systems A federal judge in California sided with Anthropic in its case against the Department of Defense on… Read more: Federal judge sides with Anthropic in first round of standoff with Pentagon - Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk Designation Halted By Judge
A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s designation, clearing the way for Anthropic to keep doing business without the label starting next week. - Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
Netflix isn’t preparing for a multibillion acquisition anymore, but it’s still raising prices. As first spotted by Android Authority today, Netflix now lists its ad-supported plan as costing $9 per month, up from $8/month. The… Read more: Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent - As RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine ways turn toxic to GOP, CDC director is hard to find
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t had a director since August, and now it’s without even a temporary one after the Trump administration blew through a federal deadline on Wednesday to nominate someone… Read more: As RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine ways turn toxic to GOP, CDC director is hard to find - Internet Yiff Machine: We hacked 93GB of “anonymous” crime tips
P3 Global Intel claims that it has “quickly become the new standard in tip management for Crime Stoppers programs, [Law Enforcement Agencies], and government agencies helping to solve and prevent crimes around the world.” Its… Read more: Internet Yiff Machine: We hacked 93GB of “anonymous” crime tips - Spotify seeks $300M from Anna’s Archive, which ignores all court proceedings
Spotify and major record labels are seeking a $322 million default judgment from Anna’s Archive, which hasn’t responded to court proceedings over its scraping of millions of music files from Spotify’s streaming service. The music… Read more: Spotify seeks $300M from Anna’s Archive, which ignores all court proceedings - Elon Musk loses big in court; X boycott perfectly legal
On Thursday, Elon Musk lost his lawsuit alleging that advertisers violated antitrust law by colluding on an ad boycott after he took over Twitter, gutted content moderation teams, and disbanded the Trust and Safety Council.… Read more: Elon Musk loses big in court; X boycott perfectly legal - 12 AI Prompt Templates Every Professional Should Bookmark
Here are 12 AI prompt templates professionals can use to write, plan, debug, analyze data, and get more useful output from AI tools. The post 12 AI Prompt Templates Every Professional Should Bookmark appeared first… Read more: 12 AI Prompt Templates Every Professional Should Bookmark - Meta’s Big Court Defeat Has Huge Implications for Lawsuits Against the AI Industry
Tech giants Meta and Google-owned YouTube suffered a devastating legal blow yesterday after losing a landmark social media addiction trial, a watershed outcome that’s likely to reverberate across the social media industry — and shrapnel from… Read more: Meta’s Big Court Defeat Has Huge Implications for Lawsuits Against the AI Industry - MIT engineers design proteins by their motion, not just their shape
Proteins are far more than nutrients we track on a food label. Present in every cell of our bodies, they work like nature’s molecular machines. They walk, stretch, bend, and flex to do their jobs,… Read more: MIT engineers design proteins by their motion, not just their shape - Seeing sounds
Growing up in Mexico and Texas, Mariano Salcedo ’25 couldn’t readily indulge his passion for creating music. “There are no bands in Mexican public schools,” he says. While some families could pay for instruments and… Read more: Seeing sounds - The debut of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live could make it harder to know if you’re talking to a robot
Text generated by artificial intelligence often has a particular vibe that gives it away as machine-generated, but it has become harder to pick out those idiosyncrasies as the tech has improved. We may be seeing… Read more: The debut of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live could make it harder to know if you’re talking to a robot - Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment
We all need a little validation now and then from friends or family, but sometimes too much validation can backfire—and the same is true of AI chatbots. There have been several recent cases of overly… Read more: Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment - You’ve got $20,000 to spend on an EV: Here are some options
With a new war in the Middle East driving up gas prices, American drivers are once again remembering that electric vehicles are much cheaper to operate and therefore worth considering. Buying a brand-new EV might… Read more: You’ve got $20,000 to spend on an EV: Here are some options - What is consciousness? Michael Pollan spent 4 years looking for the answer
Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of the 20th century, psychologists tried to capture the stream of conscious experience in… Read more: What is consciousness? Michael Pollan spent 4 years looking for the answer - Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature
This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here. Apple provided the FBI with the real iCloud email address hidden behind Apple’s ‘Hide… Read more: Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature - OpenClaw Bots Are a Security Disaster
OpenClaw agents, which are personal AI assistants designed to take over entire computers to carry out complex, multistep tasks, have blown up this year. The free and open-source agents quickly amassed a loyal following, allowing… Read more: OpenClaw Bots Are a Security Disaster - New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK
The decision follows activist pressure as Palantir faces growing scrutiny over NHS and UK government deals Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox New York City’s public… Read more: New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK - Protestors Outside Anthropic Warn of AI That Keeps Improving Itself
Months after a daring hunger strike failed to pause development of Anthropic’s AI Claude, protestors have rallied around the company’s headquarters to call for a complete stop to AI development. Last weekend, nearly 200 protestors… Read more: Protestors Outside Anthropic Warn of AI That Keeps Improving Itself - Study: New York Times Has Published Extensive AI-Generated Articles
The odds that the New York Times and other major news outlets have published AI-generated articles — whether knowing it or not — seem very high indeed. Speculation abounded on this possibility earlier this week,… Read more: Study: New York Times Has Published Extensive AI-Generated Articles - OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT
Following backlash, OpenAI won’t be rolling out an erotic version of ChatGPT any time soon. According to the Financial Times, the controversial plan has been shelved “indefinitely” as OpenAI “refocuses” its attention on “core products.”… Read more: OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT - Makemation: a Nollywood movie that shows AI in action in Africa
A new feature film, Makemation, is an African coming-of-age story set in a time of artificial intelligence (AI). Makemation was produced by Nigerian AI-developer-turned-filmmaker Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji. As conversations about AI are dominated by external global… Read more: Makemation: a Nollywood movie that shows AI in action in Africa - Intel Core Ultra 270K and 250K Plus review: Conditionally great CPUs
Many of our graphics card reviews early last year and in the early 2020s focused on the difficulties of reviewing and recommending graphics cards when the manufacturer-suggested price points effectively didn’t exist. Now, reviews of any… Read more: Intel Core Ultra 270K and 250K Plus review: Conditionally great CPUs - Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories
Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway? - Layoffs and Lawsuits Collide in Meta’s Worst Week Yet
Meta faces layoffs, legal setbacks, and scrutiny as it doubles down on AI investments, raising questions about priorities, safety, and long-term strategy. The post Layoffs and Lawsuits Collide in Meta’s Worst Week Yet appeared first… Read more: Layoffs and Lawsuits Collide in Meta’s Worst Week Yet - With the Metaverse Canceled and Zuckerberg Training AI to Run the Company, Meta Is Slashing Its Headcount
Intermittent layoffs are the norm at Meta, but it’s now carrying them out as its shift towards building AI — and using it to attempt to speed up its own workforce — becomes more overt… Read more: With the Metaverse Canceled and Zuckerberg Training AI to Run the Company, Meta Is Slashing Its Headcount
