It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App
Plus: Major data breaches at a gym chain and hotel giant, a disruptive DDoS attack against Bluesky, dubious ICE hires, and more....
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Plus: Major data breaches at a gym chain and hotel giant, a disruptive DDoS attack against Bluesky, dubious ICE hires, and more....
World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is looking to expand its...
Grinex says needed hacking resources "available exclusively to ... unfriendly states."...
Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, announced that he is leav...
Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app - an...
Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sharp pivot away from ...
The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPA...
The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex....
Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round....
There's a lot more code — but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting....
I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a delightful object. White and cherry red wit...
Honestly, what’s hotter than a real person?...
The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it...
Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus across the US an...
AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are will...
The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas m...
Ellie’s Pi Day post: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute/ How Ellie orchestrated the baking of 30 pies: https:/...
In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple i...
The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it...
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