Innovation, AI & Digital Frontier
Grand Theft Auto VI is nigh. Here’s what the developer revealed about its highly anticipated game.
It's 'built to be operated by a human with no technical background'
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Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta's vice president of augmented reality, wr...
Gaming James Pond's creator is not happy with the series' allegedly AI-generated legacy collection The developers don't have "a scrap of respect" for the series, according to Chris Sorrell. By Ian Car...
Ring is rolling out a new default encryption system called TAKE, or "Throw Away the Key Encryption," that rotates video keys every five minutes and permanently deletes Ring's copy after 24 hours. The ...
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
Claire McDonough is stepping down on October 30 to pursue a new opportunity, the company said in a filing on Thursday.
Recently [Tucker Osman] brought to life what once was just a meme created by the BBC as it poked fun at Apple’s push for ever smaller devices that also dropped…read more
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” senior writer Will Knight talks his recent visit to China and the future of AI collaboration.
Just what you want crawling through the rubble to rescue you: A swarm of remote-controlled cockroaches with syringe-shooting guns strapped to their backs
Article URL:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-windfarm-money-neighbors-florida-b3040628.htmlComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470996Points: 39# Comm...
Dozens of companies came together to publish an open letter titled "A call for collective action on cyber defense."
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when vis...
GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.
In Brief Posted: 1:15 PM PDT · August 27, 2026 Sarah Perez Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral After adding support for longer videos just yesterday, ope...
The regional internet registry is also trying to make it easier to terminate members
Article URL:https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-just-paid-nearly-17-billion-to-make-sure-it-gets-to-write-the-kid-safety-rules-for-every-other-social-media-platform/Comments URL:https://news.ycom...
Gaming Guns, cars and chihuahuas: Breaking down the GTA 6 extended look Here's what those Netflix viewers got to see ahead of the YouTube crowd. By Jessica Conditt Aug. 27, 2026 4:47 pm EST Rockstar G...
Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, highlighting a privacy tradeoff built into the deal.