Where’s the Fun in AI Gambling?
Where’s the Fun in AI Gambling? Summary On this episode of WIRED’s Uncanny Valley podcast, hosts Lauren Goode and Michael Calore talk with senior writer Kate Knibbs about how AI…
ICE Has Spyware Now
ICE Has Spyware Now Summary The Trump administration has rescinded a Biden-era restriction that limited US agencies’ access to mercenary hacking tools. As a result, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-powered offensive research pipeline built by two independent Israeli researchers uses an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories and open-source patch diffs…
Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley
Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley Summary Simon Sharwood of The Register tested Job Bolt, a startup that provides AI avatars to…
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices Summary Alphabet’s Google has been fined $3.45 billion by the European Commission for anti-competitive conduct in its adtech business.…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’
Summary Nobel laureate and neural networks pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI is likely to concentrate wealth among a small elite while displacing large numbers of workers. In an interview…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has expanded restrictions on access to its AI services, blocking companies majority-owned by entities in countries the firm deems…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is trialling Sway, a beta AI debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon. Sway pairs students with…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network
Summary Paris operates a district cooling network that pipes water from the Seine through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings — including the Louvre. The system delivers coefficients of…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A first-of-its-kind global research expedition (Expedition 501) drilled up to 1,289 feet (~393 m) into…