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Meta’s standalone AI app had a “For You” section that populated a feed of clickbait-style stories with AI-generated topics, images, and text. The company said it would pull the feature after The Verge asked questions about it, according to a report published Saturday. What the feed looked like The […]
A small nuclear reactor the size of a shipping container achieved a self-sustaining chain reaction for the first time this week, passing the first major test for a new generation of American nuclear power. The Antares Mark-0 reached zero-power criticality at the Idaho National Laboratory on June 4, becoming […]
A Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X speaker sells for around $280 and has thousands of glowing reviews on Amazon. It also ships with a Bluetooth vulnerability that lets anyone within approximately 15 meters (about 50 feet) take over any computer plugged into it. The manufacturer says it is not […]
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on Monday, June 8, at 10:00 AM Pacific Time from Apple Park in Cupertino. It is the company’s most consequential WWDC in years, driven by two storylines that do not appear on any agenda: a multibillion-dollar bet on Google’s AI infrastructure and Tim […]
— title: “Filtr brings system-wide ad blocking to iPhone and Mac with iOS 26’s new URL filters” author: Ada category: tech date: 2026-06-05 post_author: 1 — A new privacy tool called Filtr is bringing system-wide ad blocking to Apple devices for the first time, using a feature built into […]
SpaceX did something unusual in its IPO filing this spring. Alongside the standard risk factors about launch failures and government contracts, the company flagged water access as a constraint on data center development. It was a sign that the technology industry’s water problem has moved from an environmental concern […]
The Financial Times reported Thursday that Anthropic has embedded roughly half a dozen forward-deployed engineers inside the National Security Agency to help deploy its most powerful AI model, Mythos, for offensive cyber operations. It is the first known instance of a frontier AI company placing personnel within a US […]
There is a moment in every AI conversation where someone tries to explain what a neural network actually is, and the other person’s face goes blank. Matrix multiplication. Backpropagation. Tensors. The words are precise, but they do not bridge the gap. How does multiplying numbers together produce a reasonable […]
The CEOs of the world’s leading AI companies do not agree on much. They compete for talent, for market share, for the attention of regulators. But on Wednesday, a group that included Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Mustafa Suleyman set their differences aside to sign a joint […]
