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A 1971 protocol called Finger, which predates the World Wide Web, allows users to share personal status updates and files through a terminal without a graphical interface or JavaScript. The protocol, named after the gest…
Amazon announced 70 recipients of its Amazon Research Awards from 49 universities across 11 countries, funding research in AI for information security, agentic AI, automated reasoning, cryptography, cybersecurity, and su…
More than half of organizations experienced an AI-related security incident or near miss last year, according to an Okta survey. Bosses remain overconfident about their awareness of shadow AI use by workers, leaving comp…
Tech evangelists are increasingly using AI chatbots to draft personal communications with friends and loved ones, a practice that damages relationships through manipulation and a lack of respect. The author recounts a fr…
A developer is forming a collective of activist programmers to build and ship tech tools for social change, citing past projects like Resistbot as proof of concept. The group, which already includes several developers, i…
The OpenAI Foundation committed $250 million on May 27 to address economic disruption caused by AI-driven labor displacement. The funding will support grants, partnerships, and initiatives to measure AI's economic impact…
The OpenAI Foundation is committing an initial $250 million to grants, partnerships, and direct work aimed at building secure and abundant economic futures as artificial intelligence drives major economic changes. The pr…
Google Research introduced a new private analytics system combining cryptographic secure aggregation with trusted execution environments (TEEs) to achieve zero-trust privacy guarantees. The solution processes data locall…
A16z crypto researchers tested AI agents against 20 real Ethereum price manipulation cases, finding the agents could detect vulnerabilities in all cases but only successfully execute exploits in 10% of baseline tests. Wh…
A new study claims that large language models exhibit a negative bias toward religion, with Jehovah's Witnesses receiving the most unfavorable treatment. The research found that AI systems prefer secular, rational reason…
A Hacker News user proposed that submission titles should be flagged when content is entirely AI-generated, citing a rise in such articles reaching the front page. The user argued that these posts waste readers' time and…
A 47-year-old man, Stephen Buckley of Hunters Wood, Ballyseedy, Tralee, Co Kerry, was convicted and fined €400 at Tralee District Court after pleading guilty to possessing child pornographic material generated using arti…
Researchers have systematically excluded women, particularly pregnant women, from clinical trials since post-thalidomide FDA guidance, leaving 79% of pregnant women taking at least one medication without adequate safety …
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warns that the next six months in cybersecurity will be unprecedented, with AI serving as both the primary threat and the only viable defense. In a conversation with South Park Commons…
As artificial intelligence eliminates jobs and concentrates wealth among tech billionaires, declining payroll-tax revenues are failing to fund the retraining programs and social safety nets needed by displaced workers. P…
The Model Openness Tool (MOT), presented by Arnaud Le Hors at Open Source Summit North America 2026, aims to help users assess the true openness of large language models (LLMs) that are often misleadingly labeled as open…
Researchers found that all major AI chatbots failed compliance tests designed to assess adherence to the European Union's upcoming AI regulations. The study revealed that none of the prominent bots met the required stand…
Radiologists, software engineers, and pilots have not been replaced by AI despite years of predictions that automation would eliminate those roles first. Benjamin Todd, president of the nonprofit 80,000 Hours, told Busin…
Engineers are increasingly forwarding AI-generated responses without critical review, a pattern documented on orchidfiles.com that has practical implications for technical teams. The practice was observed in three scenar…
IBM released a video outlining five specific risks associated with artificial intelligence that could lead to employee termination. The company warned that misuse of AI tools, including sharing sensitive data or relying …