OpenAI Does Math, Reward-Hacking, Meta Launches Personal Agent
OpenAI solving one of the most famous math problems is extremely impressive, and of little impact to most people's lives; Meta's Muse agent launch has the...
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A New Startup Lets You Freeze Your Eggs For Free. But Is Anything Ever Free?
Cofertility manages the costs of egg freezing and storage, in exchange for half the batch. One young client became suspicious of the arrangement—and started to investigate.
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A US Census Report on Noncitizen Voting Used Bad Data to Reach Faulty Conclusions
Trump has touted a recent Census report. WIRED found grave flaws in its analysis and the process behind it, and confirmed the identity of several of...
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Lyft Sees a Future for Its Drivers in a Driverless World: Servicing Waymos
A team-up with Waymo in Nashville has former Lyft drivers maintaining self-driving cars. What’s next?
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Big Tech eyes glacier-strewn Patagonia for building mega AI data centers — region offers 17,300 glaciers, coldness, and cheap energy, but fiber lines are scarce
Patagonia, a region of Argentina with 17,300 glaciers has the potential to turn into a data center hotspot.
Read moreThe Death Of The Button: Why The Best Interface Is No Interface
TThe web is evolving beyond menus, forms, and endless clicks toward experiences shaped around human intent. For UX designers, understanding this shift means re-evaluating their role,...
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U.S. Agencies Accuse China AI Firms of Distilling Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok
U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have accused China-based artificial intelligence (AI) companies of conducting "systematic extraction" of proprietary functionalities and capabilities of American frontier models through...
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The Fairphone (Gen 6+) Review: Finally in the US
With affordable replacement parts, a five-year warranty, and updates through 2033, the Fairphone proves sustainability doesn’t mean major compromise.
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More than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans' in the next 10 years, Anthropic safety researcher says — departing employee says AI companies are 'gambling with our lives'
Anthropic AI safety researcher has warned there's a more than 10% chance AI could kill all humans.
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Recognised again: Raspberry Pi and the London Stock Exchange’s Green Economy Mark
We're delighted to share that Raspberry Pi has once again been awarded the London Stock Exchange's Green Economy Mark. The post Recognised again: Raspberry Pi and...
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Chrome V8 Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild Enables Code Execution Inside Sandbox
Google on Thursday released updates to patch 230 security vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The medium-severity vulnerability, assigned the...
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Total War: Warhammer 40k is aiming to be the most complex and most accessible game Creative Assembly has ever made – here's how the devs managed both
The Total War: Warhammer 40,000 team at Creative Assembly has an interesting challenge on its hands. How do you create a game that lives up to...
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