Innovation, AI & Digital Frontier
It’s a vulnerability that allows someone to recover the order of ballots cast,newly exploitedwith AI tools.Nearly four years since the original vulnerability was disclosed, I was still able to use it ...
Today's links Amazon achieves enshittification inception: Cheating on your fraud is a hell of a thing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Electrolite is back; Mafia rules; Aar...
What if the organization and storage benefits of tool shadowing could be had and improved with a modular, semi-automated process? Tracefinity attempts that by generating custom Gridfinity bins from ph...
The success of a program linking zoos across the US has created social media stars and generated a wave of interest in how to protect the endangered great apes in the wild.
A genetically modified pig kidney kept a 66-year-old man off dialysis for a record nine months, marking the longest survival yet for a pig kidney transplanted into a living person and the first time s...
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15 Mustangs on the city streets, but the Nissan LEAF follow-up could dispense with the safety driver
There is a torrent of unappetizing slop coming from restaurants, cafes, and brands that are increasingly turning to AI to generate images promoting their food. The resulting horror show includes donut...
We cannot forget that AI coding agents arenot yet trustworthy:Researchers at a stealth startup in Israel scanned 6,214 live domains belonging to defense contractors, Fortune 500, and Big Tech companie...
With the risk of infection rising, parents and young adults are facing agonizing choices about being out in public as school starts back up.
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The new extreme sport: Windows Updates
Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith. While the software maker originally announced a similar developer-optimized Windows effort at Build earlier this ...
Macs are fantastic computers, but you’ll need one of these great displays to complete your work-from-home setup.
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Just hours after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, CEO Sam Altman was already apologizing for what he describes as a "messy rollout" after paying users expecting access to the new frontier model were left ...
Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.
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Job seekers are trying to game the application process using AI. It’s not working, and not for the reasons you might think.
Ugreen, known for its phone power banks, chargers, and NAS storage solutions, is moving into the smart home - in a big way. This week at the IFA tech show, the company launched its HomeAgent smart hom...