AI & ML
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Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud
Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them
'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes
Human did 10% of the job, AI did 90%
Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers
Mozilla, Proton, Tor warn ministers that targeting the tech risks creating more problems than it solves
Philips Hue’s budget-friendly Essential starter kit has hit a new low price
Although most of Prime Day’s unusually good Philips Hue deals have ended, a few remain, and some, including the black Ph...
OpenAI quietly adds Kalshi World Cup odds to ChatGPT: Report
OpenAI’s ChatGPT now displays Kalshi’s World Cup prediction market odds in search results, marking the AI firm’s first r...
Strategy became a symbol of the dot-com crash: Could history repeat?
MicroStrategy blew up during the dot-com era, before Michael Saylor transformed it into the world's largest corporate Bi...
Plex problems prevented users from streaming movies and shows
Plex services experienced some major issues on Tuesday, with multiple users reporting problems on Plex's forums and on R...
Nintendo’s Switch 2 bundle that includes a game is $50 off
Discounts on the Nintendo Switch 2 are rare, but they do happen on occasion. There’s one happening now, actually, on the...
Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs
A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on...
Intel invests $5.7 billion in Ireland fab — aims to boost output of Xeon 6, next-gen Xeon products built on Intel 3 process
Intel to modernize semiconductor production facility in Ireland in a bid to increase output of Xeon 6 and other Xeon pro...
Humanity Protocol to prioritize operational security following $36M hack
Humanity Protocol’s founder said they will refocus on operational security, as malicious actors are switching from smart...
Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites
Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide
Razer Blade 16 (2026) review: Competitive gaming performance and class-leading endurance
If you can stomach the nearly $5,000 price tag, the Razer Blade 16 delivers on gaming performance and endurance.
“Vibe coding slop”: Port’s CEO on the problem with ungoverned AI dev
Vibe coding, left alone on the dance floor without any steps, shimmy, or syncopation, lacks the rhythm it needs to The p...
Boston Dynamics tries using ‘robot dogs’ for deliveries
Boston Dynamics' robotic quadruped Spot has already found work doing routine factory inspections and patrolling the ruin...
Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly
Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan
New York enacts one-year data center ban on projects larger than 50 megawatts — first US state to implement moratorium; will also pursue repealing tax exemptions
New York is the first to pass a statewide data center moratorium, which pauses all projects greater than 50 MW for one y...
The Download: Claude’s inner workings, and the future of world models
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the wor...
Norway match-fixing survey shows sports manipulation reporting gaps amid global integrity concerns
A new survey from Norway’s Lottery and Foundations Authority suggests suspected efforts to manipulate sporting events ar...
AI can finally read your handwriting — here’s why enterprises care
The seemingly unquenchable thirst of the AI data ingestion pipeline spans language, numerical, and tabular data in the f...