The tone of congressional hearings with tech industry executives in recent years can best be described as hostile. Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and other tech… Read More »Sam Altman, ChatGPT Creator and OpenAI CEO, is pushing the Senate for AI regulation
Enlarge / San Francisco 49ers new star quarterback Brock Purdy celebrates during an amazing 35-7 win over the Tom Brady-led Buccaneers. Getty Images/Thearon W. Henderson… Read More »NBC is paying $110 million to make an NFL playoff game exclusive to Peacock
Tesla investors will have less opportunity to voice their dissatisfaction with management at the company’s annual meeting, which takes place Tuesday in Austin, Texas, because… Read More »Tesla has changed a deadline for investor proposals, angering activists
Scanning Microsoft cloud services for malware by peeking into users’ zip files, even if they are password protected, several users reported on Mastodon on Monday.… Read More »Microsoft scans the inside of password-protected zip files for malware
Microsoft’s reluctant $69 billion bid to buy video game company Activision Blizzard received a glimmer of hope Monday when European Union regulators agreed to what… Read More »EU approves Microsoft’s $69 billion deal for Activision
Enlarge / Packets of Equal and Splenda at a New York coffee shop in 2016. People trying to shed pounds often cut calories by consuming… Read More »Diet sodas aren’t really good for your diet, the WHO guideline suggests
As a proof of concept in one of their experiments, the researchers scooped a soda can-sized water sample from a creek in St. Augustine, Fla.… Read More »Your DNA can now be pulled out of thin air. Privacy experts are concerned.
Enlarge / Apple’s M2 Pro chip. Unsurprisingly, Apple is already testing its replacement. Apple Many Apple Silicon Macs still haven’t made the jump from the… Read More »Apple’s M3 will reportedly continue to add CPU and GPU cores to improve performance
WASHINGTON — The United States and its allies have dismantled a major cyber-espionage system that Russian intelligence said it had used for years to spy… Read More »US says it has dismantled Russia’s ‘most advanced’ malware network
Enlarge / The arc of thin, distorted objects around the center of this image is a clear indication of gravitational lensing. Anyone who has ever… Read More »Gravitational lensing gives us a third estimate of the expansion of the universe
Declaring “We’re back,” former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Tuesday he was starting a new show on Twitter, a sign that negotiations to… Read More »Tucker Carlson says he will start a new show on Twitter
Enlarge / Screenshot of Trevor Jacobs YouTube video “I Crashed My Airplane.” A YouTuber who deliberately crashed a plane to “get fame and make money”… Read More »YouTuber who crashed plane admits he did it for money and views
Those same writers may be able to make productive use of AI tools; the WGA calls for guardrails, not bans. And the imminent threat of… Read More »Striking writers worry that AI viewers should be too.
If you’ve been worried about how you’re going to upload explicit images from your desktop to Reddit after Imgur’s May 15 ban and purge, you… Read More »Reddit welcomes NSFW desktop image uploads prior to Imgur’s ban
TikTok has become one of America’s most popular apps, even as lawmakers try to ban it. The New York Times wants to learn more about… Read More »Have something to share about TikTok?
