The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times‘ revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe. With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who…

You can pre-order the highly-anticipated Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 phone, complete with a new design and features, including Samsung Galaxy AI, for as low as $0 per month with eligible trade-in (was $53 per month). Save Over $600 a Year With AT&T Fiber AT&T Fiber claims to be the fastest internet network in America. You…

Every day seems to brings fresh news of an AI agent going “rogue.” Whether that’s compromising Hugging Face, hacking a gym website, or creating its own fake profiles to socially engineer an intrusion, AI models are increasingly behaving like bad actors. So, the AI labs that make the models doing the hacking are expanding their…

AI data centers are consuming electricity at a blistering pace, but US grid data does not show AI simply exhausting the country’s power supply. The more immediate problem is local. New data centers can arrive faster than power plants, transmission lines, and grid connections, creating capacity bottlenecks in individual regions even when national electricity generation…

Today’s NYT Strands hints are easy if you like buying fresh fruits and vegetables. Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting…

I was recently digging through my Instagram settings, trying to disable Meta’s now-defunct feature that allowed anyone to create AI deepfakes of me without consent. Anger bubbled up inside as I tapped through the Kafkaesque opt-out process. Rather than throwing my phone across the room, I blurted to my partner that we should leave San…

OpenAI has bought back $7 billion worth of shares from employees at the privately held frontier AI lab as part of an effort to provide liquidity to its workforce. The deal, reported by Bloomberg, valued OpenAI at $852 billion, the same as its most recent fundraising round in March, which added $122 billion to the…

Klaviyo has fixed a website configuration bug that may have exposed new customers’ sign-up data, including passwords, to third-party trackers embedded on its site. The company says fewer than 200 people are known to have been affected based on its readily available active logs. That figure is not a final total, because Klaviyo has not…

There’s a new robotaxi in town — Amazon’s Zoox. Paid rides on Zoox became available for the first time ever, with service launching in Las Vegas on Monday (Aug. 10). The Sin City service follows Zoox’s recent availability as a free option for select San Francisco riders.  While Alphabet’s autonomous Waymo cars are also available…