Social media scuttlebutt about Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million superyacht failing to assist stranded boaters off the coast of Alaska was partly corroborated by ship-tracking data—and eventually prompted responses from both the US Coast Guard and a spokesperson for Zuckerberg. The incident was made public when Michael Love, a passenger aboard the replica steamship Wilderness Legacy […]

Amazon’s artificial intelligence ambitions will soon be partly fueled by a natural gas-burning power plant in Texas that “could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States,” The New York Times reported. These gas-burning plants are increasingly lumped into data center projects. They produce harmful pollutants, which can accelerate climate change

Following its announcement in March, game developer Cold Iron Studios has shut down the servers for the cloud version of Aliens: Fireteam Elite on the Nintendo Switch. The game originally cost $30 (or $60 for an “Ultimate” version with additional content). Cold Iron Studios hasn’t offered customers refunds. TheGamer reported that affected players are entitled

President Trump signed an executive order Monday that makes sweeping, unilateral changes to federal vaccine recommendations. The order aims to reduce the number of lifesaving vaccines all children are recommended to get—from 18 to 11—while also splitting them up and spacing them out over more time and more medical visits. The vaccine changes are not

Meta has announced its intention to focus on open-weight large language models. Additionally, the company announced the release of an open model called Muse Glimmer and a promise to open the weights for Muse Spark 1.2, its more powerful model, in the next few weeks. Alongside these announcements, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a more

By now, any serious gamer is familiar with a favorite title becoming unplayable after a centralized online server gets shut down, or being unable to purchase and download a digitally delisted, critically acclaimed title from yesteryear. Can anything be done about this video game preservation problem? To help answer that question, we’ll be hosting a

Meta CEO presents utopian vision of AI in 6,000-word essay amid Silicon Valley debate over government regulation Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay on Monday detailing his views on artificial intelligence and announced several plans for how Meta would develop the technology in the future. The CEO’s essay went online the same day as Meta

Scam.ai, the company building state-of-the-art AI to detect deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, today announced the launch of Halo, a real-time, on-device deepfake detection model for video meetings, developed in close collaboration with Qualcomm. Video-call impersonation fraud is a fast-growing threat to businesses. In 2024, engineering firm Arup lost $25 million after an employee was deceived

Thirdman/ Pexels Australia’s education ministers are increasingly asking if there is too much screen time in schools. Phones are already banned or restricted in every public school around the country. And Victoria has announced that from 2027 primary schools will cap classroom device use at 90 minutes a day in Years 3 to 6. Last

Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images You know the feeling. Your account is suspended, your refund request is refused, or you’re still being charged for a cancelled subscription. So you go to the company’s website for help and you find a chatbot. It offers a menu that doesn’t include your situation. There is no option