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…
But shortly afterward, his Patreon account was taken down too. In an email statement, a spokesperson for the platform said: “Patreon prohibits works that provide instructions around the creation of controlled substances or other recreational drugs. We take violations of our policies seriously, and after an internal investigation, we have removed the creator’s account.” Myco…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has donated another $20 million to Build a Better California, an organization advocating against California’s proposed billionaire tax, according to a new filing. That means that the world’s fourth-richest man, whose net worth hovers around $267 billion, has now spent more than $100 million to avoid an estimated $13.3 billion tax…
Nearly a third of UK manufacturers say they or a company in their supply chain experienced a cyber incident in the past year, while only half have a response plan in place. The new findings put supplier exposure alongside direct attacks as a manufacturing risk. A compromised supplier can interrupt production even when the manufacturer…
