Kevin Mitnick, who at the dawn of widespread Internet use in the mid-1990s became the nation’s archetypal computer hacker—obsessive but smart, shy but mischievous, and… Read More »Kevin Mitnick, hacker who escaped authorities, is dead at age 59
Reddit is publicly extending an olive branch to the moderator community it has been largely outraged over the past few weeks. In a post on… Read More »No excuses, as Reddit is half-heartedly trying to mend ties with moderators
In a cavernous room this week in a one-story building in Santa Clara, California, six-and-a-half-foot tall machines whirred behind white cabinets. The machines formed a… Read More »An AI supercomputer comes to life, powered by giant computer chips
The internet is dangerous, so what if you just don’t use it? That’s the somewhat ironic recommendation that Google, one of the world’s largest internet… Read More »Google’s new security pilot program will ban employees’ Internet access
Three months before the cryptocurrency market imploded last year, Caroline Ellison, the 27-year-old CEO of crypto hedge fund Alameda Research, was wracked with self-doubt. “I… Read More »Caroline Ellison writes about ex-crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried
Benj Edwards/Getty Images On Tuesday, researchers from Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley published a research paper that claims to show changes in GPT-4… Read More »Research claims that ChatGPT is losing capacity, but some experts are not convinced
Netflix added millions of subscribers in the second quarter and saw an increase in revenue, the company said Wednesday in a positive earnings report that… Read More »Netflix reports sunny earnings amid Hollywood strikes
Enlarge / What the Gulf?a popular Apple Arcade game, which runs in a shared 3D space with other visionOS applications. Unit Starting today, some developers… Read More »Unity’s visionOS support has started rolling out – here’s how it works
Microsoft and Activision Blizzard said Wednesday they were delaying a $69 billion merger as the two companies scrambled to get final approval from UK antitrust… Read More »Microsoft and Activision delay deal to resolve UK regulatory issues
Jacqui Van Liew/Wired Days after Meta launched its new app, Threads, this month, a software engineer at the company named Ben Savage introduced himself to… Read More »Fear, disgust and excitement as Threads use the open standard used by Mastodon
Enlarge / Artist’s concept of the VIPER rover operating in lunar darkness. The search for ice at the moon’s poles has become big in the… Read More »NASA begins building ice-hunting lunar rover
The UN Security Council held its first session on Tuesday on the threat artificial intelligence poses to international peace and stability, and Secretary-General António Guterres… Read More »UN officials push for regulation of AI at Security Council meeting
Enlarge / Khachatur Manukyan and colleagues at the University of Notre Dame used advanced spectroscopic and imaging instruments to take a closer look at the… Read More »Ben Franklin wove colored fibers into paper money to deter counterfeiters
The tech industry’s biggest companies have warned over the past year that the development of artificial intelligence technology is beyond their wildest expectations and that… Read More »Meta reveals a more powerful AI and doesn’t care about who uses it
Millions of US military emails have been misdirected to Mali in a “typo leak” that exposed highly sensitive information, including diplomatic documents, tax returns, passwords… Read More »Typo leaks millions of emails from the US military to the web operator in Mali
