Security researchers have attributed the attempted use of destructive "wiper" malware across Poland's energy infrastructure in late December to a Russian-backed hacking group known for causing power outages in neighboring Ukraine.
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos felt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main promenade. AI dominated the conversation in a way that overshadowed traditional topics like climate change and global poverty, and the CEOs weren’t holding back. There was public criticism of trade policy, warnings about AI […]
These excellent earbuds were already a good deal before the discount.
US Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create prototype “quantum sensors,” to be used with an AI database to detect fentanyl and other narcotics.
The addition is meant to just be a fun way to explore your photos and experiment with Google's Gemini AI technology, and specifically Nano Banana.
Meta today said that it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps. The company mentioned that it is not abandoning its efforts but wants to develop an updated version of AI characters for teens.
A number of investors are competing for the opportunity to purchase the app, and if a deal were to go through, the platform's U.S. business could have its valuation soar to upward of $60 billion.
TikTok’s new age-detection tech seems like a better solution than automatically banning youth accounts. But experts say it still requires social platforms to surveil users more closely.
A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesn’t agree.
Started by an engineer who worked on the space shuttle program, and at Blue Origin, Space Beyond has a spot on a 2027 Falcon 9 flight.
The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.
The business model behind these apps replicates the same dark patterns as mobile games.
The deal ends a six-year long political saga that started in 2020 when President Donald Trump tried to ban the app over national security concerns during his first term.
The visit comes as New Delhi prepares to host a major AI summit expected to draw top executives from Meta, Google, and Anthropic. This will be Altman's first visit to the country in nearly a year.
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Gearing up to shred the slopes or dive into the seas? These photography tools are made for danger.
Roblox has said that a performance of Bruno Mars's new single in the platform's user-created Steal A Brainrot mode attracted 12.8 million concurrent users, which it described as a "single artist record for most-watched virtual concert" on the platform. The activation issued custom "Brunito Marsito" brainrot collectibles to attendees, who accumulated a total of 5,428,644 of them.
The UK Video Games Council has pushed for further government support of the industry, arguing that the country has a wealth of talent but not less support than other parts of the world.
Celebrate National Handwriting Day (I did not make that up) with new notebooks, a journal, or sketchbooks.
I tested an array of alternative sleep aids, from gummies to wearable patches, to see if they would help my chronic insomnia.
