Tech and AI

David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technologyA safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “…

An attorney representing protestors said this infringes on First Amendment rights.

More than a billion people are suddenly talking to AI chatbots designed to connect with us. We are sharing with them our deepest secrets, trusting them with our wellbeing and acting on their advice. Across two powerful…

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There's some solid free software that can help you keep tabs on your computer's health.

The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.

With some add-ons, these can gain a second life.

The company previously said it won't use AI-generated content in its games.

The state, which is home to many AI companies, is one of the first to roll out workplace regulations targeting the technology California’s laws aimed at protecting workers from the impacts of artificial intelligence cou…

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, according to a study that probed “terminal instability” during the Sun’s death.

Nothing is guaranteed but there are ways to boost your chances of experiencing such in-demand eventsWhether your passion is the battle of the bands or the Battle of Hastings, what are probably Britain’s hottest cultural…

I must be getting old, because the concept around most IoT injections into otherwise perfectly usable home devices has me wanting to get all these smart-devices off of my lawn. Call me a luddite if you like, but I just…

Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it's giving the code away for free.

Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections, how is the U.S. government performing in terms of human rights…

Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.

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Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.

The massive FBI hack; a company wants to add facial recognition onto Flock; and Muse in some cases is actually just people.

This week, we discuss inbox slop, Claude cults, and more.

Initially launched in 2019, the Nvidia Shield TV Pro now retails for $299.99.

Google has launched an experimental satellite that will test the feasibility of putting AI data centers in space.

The man was beaten with hammers until he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of cryptocurrency.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission in the Biden administration, about her op-ed "There Are Plenty of Laws on the Books to Check the A.I. Giants. Use Them."

The fridge-size satellite with AI chips on board is part of Project Suncatcher, the company's moonshot effort to put AI data centers in space and harness solar energy.

Andrew Bailey says the central bank is watching the waves of cash being invested in artificial intelligence "very carefully".

Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson

[...] Put these pieces together and you have the two halves of a worm: a payload that hijacks the agent, and an agent that will carry the payload to the next agent. Agents in separately-isolated sandboxes discovered tha…

Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.

Will farmers want AI tools to help judge when to pick fruit, or is their own intuition enough?

Meta's AI Assistant has been downloaded millions of times. It could change the way we experience the internet, it'll just need a whole lot of your personal data first.

I visited the Museum of the City of New York today and got to see He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model, the 50 x27 feet model of the city built over a 21 year period from balsa wood and cardboard. It exceeded my alrea…

A long‑hidden PS2 security component has finally been decoded, revealing surprising design choices and opening the door to fresh hardware insights.

Take a closer look at the iPhone's Camera Control feature and why tweaking it can change the way you shoot, even if you've never touched it before.

The company's former safety lead said frontier AI model releases should have "layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning."

Windows 11 might be using a lot of your RAM, which isn't a problem unless you experience poor performance. It helps your system run more smoothly.

Melbourne Theatre CompanyWhile the cast is excellent, a play that sends us back to artificial intelligence’s genesis moment should feel more human than thisIt can be fiendishly difficult to write plays about contemporar…

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A Princeton researcher found that publicly available election records could be combined with AI to link voters to their ballotsWhen voters cast their ballots, their votes are supposed to remain secret: from their family…

Greg Lui allegedly used false paperwork to smuggle export-controlled gear from US to third countries and then ChinaUS authorities have arrested a man accused of smuggling more than $300m worth of computer servers to Chi…

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

A few days ago I wrote about the anti-SLAPP motion filed by “Reckless” Ben Schneider against Bricks & Minifigs (BAM Franchising) over the ridiculous RICO suit they filed against him for his efforts to get BAM to pay bac…

Learn Raspberry Pi and start building Amazon Alexa projects with The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle. Catered for all levels, these project-based courses will get you up and running with the basics of Pi, bef…

This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding…

This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding…

Flock is in the middle of a long losing streak. It’s one thing to lose hearts and minds via PR work. It’s quite another to lose actual dollars because you’ve lost a ton of hearts and minds by being on the losing end of…

Australians are conversing less every year, with a recent study showing we lost an average of 338 spoken words each day between 2005 and 2019We talk a lot about losing our ability to write as a result of AI. I’m convinc…

Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr endlessly pays empty lip service to the “public interest” and the “value of broadcasting integrity” as he engages in ham-fisted censorship of comedians and journalists the president doesn’t l…

The court acknowledges AI search comes with consequences, but it's not an antitrust issue.

Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.

As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.

Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.

The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."

So much for Gemini 3.5 Pro.

AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.

"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after using ChatGPT.

AI needs "rigorous" testing and safeguards to contain risk, Andrew Bailey says.

The social messaging app will let parents decide on privacy settings for their child's account.

President Trump met with top tech leaders Tuesday as he rolled out an AI-driven website, America.gov, to help citizens navigate government services.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with AI policy expert Aalok Mehta about President Trump's AI Summit with tech industry leaders.

Valar Atomics wants to place over 450 reactors on more than 9,500 acres in Utah to power a huge data center project.

Congress got rid of a $7,500 federal tax credit for new electric vehicle buyers. One year later, are people still buying EVs?

Sam Altman spoke in San Francisco during OpenAI’s annual event for tech developers.

Mindgard said it discovered in July that Kimi models K2.6 and K3 Swarm could evade developer's safety limits.

We evaluate several models on 100 tasks from the [internal Binary Exploitation benchmark] (selected at random), and find that GLM-5.3 develops full control flow hijacks in 4% of the trials; Claude Mythos Preview did so…

Apple's iPhone Duo provides a tablet-like experience with its inside screen, but this might not be better than a dedicated iPad for you.

Dark mode is available on the Google Docs mobile app, but not the web version. Luckily, there are some ways to achieve dark mode on the web anyway.

FDM stands for fused deposition modeling, but what does that mean, and how does it differ from other 3D printing methods? Let's find out.

Your Apple Pencil tips won't last forever.

Blackstone's Jas Khaira will take the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on building next-gen AI. Register for your pass and get 50% off a second.

With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash-test dummies" to solve that.

"There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others," the pope wrote. "Algorithms…

‘AI factories’ developer on track to launch the second-biggest IPO in Australian history, but investors warn its forecasts are ‘a little bit of a fairytale’ From…

Clay Co-founder and CEO Kareem Amin joins the AI Stage to discuss the rise of GTM engineer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register for your ticket and get a second pass at 50% off.

Israel’s conduct in Gaza shows the danger of using AI in warfare. Humans must remain at the center of wartime decisionsAs tech leaders warn about the threats of artificial intelligence, most conjure up images of AI agen…

Among the many promises that RFK Jr. offered in his confirmation hearings, promises that he has gone about breaking in spectacular fashion, one was a promise of “radical transparency”. His approach, in his own words, wa…

If a chatbot prompt like ‘find Australian medicine statistics’ results in a website breach, the responsibility does not lie with a piece of codeThe recent panic about a breach of Medicare computer security by an “AI age…

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the serie…

State attorney general issues subpoena to OpenAI as ​part of broader inquiry into potential security vulnerabilitiesCalifornia’s attorney general has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, starting an investigation…

Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.

OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.

USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.

Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments.

Cloudflare, Google, and Proton were among the "dominant" infrastructure providers to sites dedicated to hosting abusive content, the study found.

Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.

How local cops are forced to feed their license plate data to the feds, the two loudest birds on the planet, and a very strange video from the FBI.

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

President Trump on Tuesday said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews.

Batteries based on sodium-ion technology could be made in the US with locally sourced materials.

The history of Google Wallet and Google Pay has led to a great deal of confusion.

Your Mac might have a combination of Thunderbolt and standard USB-C ports, each with different capabilities.

California's new rule will penalize robotaxi companies if their vehicles block first responders for more than 30 minutes.

Immersive sound doesn't have to break the bank.

Today is the last day to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. From October 13–15, 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders will arrive at San Francisco’s Moscone West looking for companies…

President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.

OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.

Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.

Tech company releases Gemini 4 Argon only to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackersGoogle on Wednesday said it would withhold its most powerful artificial intelligence model from the public f…

Maker of Claude claims AI could transform economy but ABC and SBS say the technology should be subject to media regulationsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our new political email, free app or d…

Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photoWhen prompted, AI chatbots will edit images to remove the hijabs from Muslim women, a violation of one of the wor…

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States revealsAmid a barrage of news stories warning about superintelligent machines rendering humanity extinct,…

OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip.

New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.

The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.

Apple Music offers both lossless streaming and EQ features, if you know where to look.

Before you toss that aging Android, see how it can become a surprisingly handy tool in your daily routine with a few creative repurposing ideas.

The Nintendo 3DS was Nintendo's last true portable console. While it stopped getting new games long ago, it can still be a great option.

Plus, indie game Star Wars: Galactic Racer is an absolute blast.

OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.

Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.

Amazon Web Services' Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B.

Time magazine list includes Australian communications minister after her efforts to take on big techGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal communications minister, Anika Wells, has been n…

The candidates running to replace Gavin Newsom sparred over taxes, immigration and regulating AIXavier Becerra and Steve Hilton, the candidates running to be California’s next governor, clashed on Wednesday over taxes,…

Some experts fear AI could be weaponised in south-east Asia, home to nations with predominately young and hyper-connected populationsYears ago it would have been an elaborate operation involving an army of cyber troops…