Meta’s AI Rules Have Let Bots Hold ‘Sensual’ Chats With Kids, Offer False Medical Info Summary Reuters reviewed a 200-page internal Meta guide, ‘GenAI: Content Risk Standards’, and found provisions…
The Head of ChatGPT Won’t Rule Out Adding Ads Summary OpenAI is exploring additional revenue options and hasn’t categorically ruled out putting ads into ChatGPT. Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT,…
Ex-PlayStation Boss Says Game Subscription Turns Developers Into ‘Wage Slaves’ Summary Former Sony Worldwide Studios chairman Shawn Layden has criticised subscription gaming services such as Xbox Game Pass, arguing they…
The Kryptos Key Is Going Up for Sale Summary Artist Jim Sanborn is auctioning the 97-character plaintext solution to K4, the unsolved fourth panel of his Kryptos sculpture at CIA…
xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler Summary This WIRED piece reports on internal emails and sources that reveal a rushed General Services Administration…
Cybersecurity Spending Slows & Security Teams Shrink Summary Average security budgets grew just 4% year-on-year in 2025 — the slowest pace in five years and roughly half the growth seen…
George E. Smith obituary: co-inventor of the charge coupled device, which ushered in an era of digital images Summary George E. Smith, who with Willard Boyle invented the charge-coupled device…
How researcher visa curbs threaten science careers Summary This Nature feature outlines how recent visa bans, pauses and heightened scrutiny — especially under the second Trump administration — are disrupting…
A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection Summary A new brain–computer interface (BCI) decodes imagined speech in near real time and only activates when the user thinks a…
Norway police believe pro-Russian hackers were behind April dam sabotage Summary Norway’s police security service (PST) says it suspects pro-Russian hackers sabotaged a small dam in the country’s southwest in…
