A Hacker News user posted 'HN Mirror with Image Previews,' a tool that mirrors Hacker News's top stories with added image previews. The mirror displays 118 top stories from the site, linking to extern…
Robin Rendle's blog post 'Small things like these' recommends a book he immediately requested on Libby, while Joe Crawford's 'Chuck Tingle and the Internet' explores the author's online presence. Heat…
Business email compromise scams crossed $3 billion in reported 2025 losses, according to the FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report, which also said AI-related complaints cost Americans nearly $893 million …
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) will require approximately 58,000 students to retake its entrance exam after an AI-supervised remote testing system failed to prevent widespread che…
President Donald Trump's claims of election system vulnerability have been accompanied by his administration's dismantling of cyber defenses, according to NPR correspondent Shannon Bond in a Political…
NPR reports that surging demand from AI data centers has driven up computer memory prices, with DRAM and NAND flash prices rising significantly in 2026. The price increases are attributed to the massi…
Google removed its Earth AI tool on July 31, one day after launch, after users generated fake disaster images such as a destroyed Eiffel Tower and a flooded Washington D.C. The company stated it is ro…
Google pulled its new AI image-generation feature from Google Earth on Friday, one day after its launch, following widespread criticism that the tool, powered by Nano Banana 2, enabled users to create…
Google shipped an AI tool on July 30 that let users fabricate photorealistic satellite imagery on real coordinates, including nuclear plants in Iran and bomb craters in Gaza, then pulled the feature a…
Google removed an AI image-generation feature from Google Earth on July 31, a day after its July 30 launch, following backlash from journalists and researchers who showed it could fabricate convincing…
Google removed the AI image-generation feature from Google Earth on July 31, 2026, about a day after launching it for all browser users, citing the need for stronger guardrails after users generated i…
Google launched a Google Earth web feature on July 30 that lets users generate images from satellite, aerial, and 3D map views using a text prompt, but NPR, AFP, and open-source researchers documented…
Author Charles Graeber will receive $6,200 from Anthropic as part of a $1.5 billion class-action settlement over unauthorized use of his books to train the Claude chatbot, but he says the years-long f…
The American Federation of Teachers, representing 1.8 million members, called on May 27, 2026, for a ban on student-facing AI in elementary schools and screen-free learning from pre-K through second g…
A federal judge ruled that Google cannot use copyright law to block a lawsuit from former NPR host David Greene, who alleges that Google's NotebookLM AI podcasting product used his voice without permi…
Political campaigns are using AI to craft personalized text messages to voters, making the messages more effective but also more annoying, according to an NPR report. The technology allows campaigns t…
Google suffered another legal setback as Judge Breyer granted David Greene's voice likeness case back to state court, ruling the claims were based on outputs, not inputs used to train AI models, and t…
Over 200 researchers and economists, including 15 Nobel laureates, released a joint statement on Monday pleading with government and industry to address the economic and social impacts of artificial i…
Some American startups are turning to cheaper Chinese AI models as a cost-saving alternative to expensive American AI systems, highlighting a growing price divide in the AI industry.…
A new free tool called Peabody Search, created by an unnamed developer, lets users restrict Google searches to FCC-licensed news outlets by U.S. state and year range (1995+), addressing the problem of…