2025-10-17

Your Uber driver has a new side hustle: Training AI for cash

Uber is offering a new way to earn money without needing to set foot in your car. [...]

2025-10-17

Instagram will let parents block their kids from talking to 'AI characters'

Meta is rolling out new parental controls for teen accounts on Instagram, including restrictions to its AI characters and a PG-13 setting [...]

2025-10-17

Sex could become the next big business opportunity for AI companies

OpenAI won’t be the first to try to profit from sexualized AI. [...]

2025-10-17

WhatsApp will test a monthly cap on messages ignored by recipients

WhatsApp is taking a new anti-spam feature for a spin. On Friday, TechCrunch reported that the trial limits the number of messages accounts can send without a reply from the recipient. The company is currently experimenting with different limits. But it's aiming for a number [...]

2025-10-17

Atari just announced the Intellivision Spirit, a revamp of the iconic 1980s gaming console

Atari just revealed the Intellivision Spirit, a modern refresh of the classic Intellivision gaming console from 1980. The new console certainly looks like the original. You can practically smell the cigarette-soaked carpeting from here.<br /> Beyond aesthetics, this console [...]

2025-10-17

12 years of HDD analysis brings insight to the bathtub curve’s reliability

Backup firm brings a unique, informed perspective to HDD failure rates. [...]

2025-10-17

Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution

A recent study found lead in teeth from 2 million-year-old hominin fossils. [...]

2025-10-17

North Korean hackers found hiding crypto-stealing malware with Blockchain

State-sponsored actors are using Ethereum and BNB to host malware and steal people's money. [...]

2025-10-17

OpenAI's own support bot has no idea how ChatGPT works

When asked a simple support question, ChatGPT's customer support bot hallucinates what the generative AI app can and can't do. [...]