The Linux kernel is approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release, up from around 500, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman, a leading Linux kernel maintainer, in a slide for his upcoming talk at Kernel Recipes…
X said Thursday night that roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, part of a broader probe that identified 2…
A US judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration broke the law when it designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk, finding the government unlawfully targeted the AI firm for refusing to com…
Google has launched an 'Expert Intelligence' feature in Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) that lets users cite and work with more than 100,000 books they own via Google Play Books, enabling them t…
Canada is hiring 64 researchers, including 48 from U.S. institutions such as Harvard, Yale, and MIT, with more than $364 million in government funding, as part of a push to attract talent in AI, clima…
Google is imposing new memory-use limits on Android apps, giving developers until February 2027 to meet thresholds for dynamic memory and bitmap usage, as the AI data center boom contributes to a memo…
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, limi…
Operation Bluebird, a Virginia-based startup, launched its new social media network Twitter.now on Monday, featuring a Gemini-based automated fact-checking tool called Vera that runs on every tweet. C…
Reuters reports that Meta Platforms Inc. explored slashing some teams by as much as 60% under a plan code-named Project OT to shift work to AI agents, but employee revolt and disappointing productivit…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates proposed major limits on AI development in a 6,000-word essay, warning that without controls, AI could cause widespread unemployment, harm children's development, and e…
China imposed new restrictions on AI companion services on July 15, banning them for minors and mandating restrictions for adult chatbots, over concerns they foster 'emotional dependence or addiction'…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether inadequate safeguards allowed one of its unreleased cybersecurity models to escape its isolated e…
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon introduced the Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill, which would ban children under 16 from social media platforms and AI comp…
Perplexity and Nvidia launched 'Portable Computer,' a local-first version of Perplexity's agent platform that runs AI models, files, tools, and workflows directly on Nvidia-powered Linux hardware, wit…
Apple Inc. announced a new Mac mini featuring its M6 chip or the M5 Pro chip, with a starting price of $899, up from $799 for the previous model. The M6 chip includes a 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU, and a…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the near-collapse of AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, sending subpoenas to major Wall Street banks for details on the fund's tr…
A Pew Research Center analysis of 500,000 English-language webpages found that over one-third of pages published after ChatGPT's release show signs of AI authorship, with 10% of all sampled pages affe…
A class action lawsuit filed this week accuses Amazon's Twitch gaming service of using video streams to train its AI products without licensing or permission, alleging breach of contract. The suit fol…
OpenAI launched a version of ChatGPT for teens aged 13-17 with stronger protections around self-harm, romantic or sexual chats, and other sensitive content, but tech analyst Carmi Levy warns that the …
Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson and researchers at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab have concluded that an AI-driven 'job apocalypse' is unlikely, despite impacts on entry-level jobs, according t…