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Caution Labs has built AI-powered content moderation infrastructure designed to detect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) across text, images, and AI-generated workflows. The company warns that PII—including names…
A security researcher disclosed a design flaw in GitHub's commit verification system that allows attackers to spoof verified commits by exploiting a mismatch between the author and committer fields. GitHub's "Verified" b…
Environmental advocate Erin Brockovich launched an interactive map tracking AI data centers across the United States, distinguishing between operational, under construction, proposed, and community-reported sites. The in…
Pope Leo XIV released a 44,000-word encyclical on Monday titled *Magnifica Humanitas*, calling for a global ban on autonomous weapons and stricter regulation of AI to prevent the concentration of power among private tech…
Cloud architect Corey Quinn praised Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah's influence on Pope Francis's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas*, calling it the most effective vendor lobbying effort he has ever witnessed. The pa…
The Jellyfin open-source media server project announced it will drop the "10" major version prefix from its naming scheme, moving directly to version 12.0 for its next major release. The team also published a new LLM/AI …
Pope Leo warned that the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence risks concentrating excessive power in the hands of Big Tech companies and their leaders. The pontiff’s statement comes amid growing global debate over …
On April 15, 2026, Snap Inc. cut 1,000 jobs — 16% of its workforce — and attributed the layoffs directly to AI now generating 65% of the company's new code, with CEO Evan Spiegel projecting $500 million in annualized sav…
A series of AI-generated online news outlets posing as local mastheads in regional Western Australia could be the first recorded example of "pink-slime" journalism in Australia. The sites, which appeared in February and …
AI agents remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks because safety instructions embedded in system prompts can be overridden by adversarial text encountered during operation. Security researchers have demonstrated th…
Despite headlines attributing mass layoffs to AI, data shows only 5% of 2025 layoffs were AI-driven, totaling 54,836 jobs. Companies like Block, Klarna, and IBM used AI as a cover story to justify cuts from pandemic over…
A new analysis applies Guy Debord's 1967 concept of the spectacle to today's AI-driven media landscape, arguing that artificial intelligence has become the latest apparatus mediating human relations and representation, w…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, on Thursday, addressing the ethical integration of artificial intelligence into modern society. The document, titled "On Safeguarding the Human Person in…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, addressing artificial intelligence and calling for global moral engagement with the technology. The document warns against using AI to exploit and dehuma…
Pope Leo XIV will release his new encyclical on artificial intelligence Monday at an event featuring Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, signaling deepening ties between the Vatican and major AI companies. The collaboration…
An AI agent developer has proposed that long-running AI systems need an explicit "authority policy" to resolve conflicts between retrieved memories, rather than relying on larger context windows or implicit heuristics. T…
Alan DeKok told NZNOG 2026 that RADIUS is here to stay, prompting the IETF's RADEXT Working Group to advance RADIUS 1.1, which removes MD5 dependency and lifts the 8-bit packet identifier limit to improve security and pe…
A study evaluating 15 large language models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on over 6,000 political claims found that standard models performed poorly at fact-checking, with reasoning capabilities offering minima…
Microsoft's split with OpenAI could ultimately benefit the company's stock by reducing its financial exposure to the AI startup's high costs and operational risks. The separation allows Microsoft to focus on integrating …
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, *Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence*, on Monday, warning that humanity faces a pivotal choice between building a new T…