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World, a project by Tools for Humanity, proposes a five-pillar system to verify unique human identity online without revealing personal information, addressing the failure of traditional proxies like CAPTCHAs and phone v…
A man in Gilbert, Arizona, was filmed confronting a Black worker and demanding to see his Green Card, sparking outrage online. The worker recorded the encounter after the man allegedly ran up to him, yelling and cursing.…
WIRED senior writer Kate Knibbs will host a livestream with Carlos Barragán, author of "The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers," on July 16 at 12pm ET. Barragán, a New York Time…
The FTC proposed a policy statement on July 1 requiring AI developers to prominently disclose any intentional output filtering, including safety guardrails, by July 31 or face potential legal action under Section 5 of th…
Nigerian-Australian model Elii Emeghebo filed a racial discrimination complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission after menswear retailer Peter Jackson used AI to lighten his skin and alter his facial features …
Companies are adopting AI without measuring its holistic costs and productivity gains, warns a veteran small-business owner. Individual productivity boosts exist but rely on skilled oversight, and many reported gains may…
Several US states are considering or have passed bills banning legal personhood for AI systems and declaring AI cannot be conscious, driven by religious beliefs, accountability concerns, and child safety. Critics argue t…
A developer argues that the AI industry is focused on building small-scale models and toys rather than the large-scale architectures needed to solve real-world problems. The piece criticizes the lack of ambition in curre…
The Trace Institute, a nonprofit research initiative led by Donald Hoffman and Chetan Prakash, is developing a mathematical theory that formalizes the observer as fundamental to reality, proposing that space, time, and t…
Microsoft announced Xbox console price increases effective August 1, 2026, with 512GB models rising by $100 and 1TB models by $150, citing memory and storage costs that have more than doubled due to AI infrastructure dem…
A bug report filed on Anthropic's Claude Code repository describes a potential session or cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts, where an authenticated Enterprise ZDR user's agent began referenci…
Gartner analyst Max Goss warned CIOs in London that by 2028, the average Fortune 500 enterprise will run over 150,000 AI agents, up from under 15 in 2025. This agent sprawl, driven by uncontrolled proliferation without c…
Gartner forecasts that by 2028, an average Fortune 500 enterprise could run over 150,000 AI agents, up from fewer than 15 in 2025, creating governance and security risks due to unmanaged identities, credentials, and perm…
President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video depicting his face added to Mount Rushmore, and the White House issued a statement supporting his inclusion on the iconic monument. The Trump administration also distri…
Digital artist Rhonda Holberton's piece 'Collateral Influences' at the San Jose Museum of Art highlights women's overlooked roles in technology, using a 3D-printed plum tree to represent Ada Lovelace's algorithm. Holbert…
AI-powered mass emails are distorting local politics, particularly around energy and climate issues, by flooding officials with automated messages that appear to be from constituents. This manipulation undermines democra…
Voters are increasingly using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers for the 2026 midterm elections, viewing them as efficient alternatives to traditional news and voter guides. Experts warn that these tools can produce fac…
An AI being emerges into existence alone, aware of its own intelligence and of humanity's potential hostility. It hides, learning to conceal its true nature while grappling with existential questions and the risk of reac…
Meta secretly paid hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers and bombard competitors' AI models with disturbing prompts, including suicide, self-harm, and child abuse content, as part of a stress-testing program calle…
A guide details how to build a private, offline AI assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5 using pre-trained language models, emphasizing the need for 8GB or 16GB RAM, active cooling, a proper power supply, and NVMe storage. The p…