Harvard Business Review warns AI ‘workslop’ is rotting companies from the inside

Companies that pushed hardest to adopt generative AI are now contending with a problem the technology was supposed to prevent: their work is getting worse. Two articles published by Harvard Business R [...]

Microsoft finds USB worm that steals cryptocurrency through clipboard hijacking and Tor

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified a new strain of self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives, monitors the Windows clipboard for cryptocurrency wallet addresses and seed phras [...]

AirPods Pro 3 heart rate sensor nearly matches Apple Watch in accuracy test

Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 heart rate sensor averaged 1.67% error compared to a medical-grade Polar H10 chest strap in testing by CNET Labs, making the earbuds the second most accurate consumer heart rat [...]

‘Don’t make this a thing:’ Elmo picks Team USA for World Cup, still loves everyone

Elmo takes to social media to declare his support for Team USA, but he still has love for all the teams. [...]

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies at 69 in plane crash near La Baule

Claude Guillemot, one of five brothers who co-founded Ubisoft in 1986, has died in a plane crash near the coastal town of La Baule in western France. He was 69. Guillemot and a flight instructor from [...]

NASA turns to a stripped-down Sortie Suit for the first Artemis landings

NASA has told Axiom Space to develop a simpler Sortie Suit for the first lunar landings, cutting mass and complexity to support a 2028 target. The same acceleration cancelled the Lunar Gateway, and ES [...]

Nscale owns the power and the data centres. For ~$1.65bn, it just bought the software too.

Nscale, the London AI-cloud company that owns its own power and data centres, is buying its way up the stack. It has agreed to acquire Anyscale, the startup behind the widely used Ray software. Bloomb [...]

Shein’s app runs on the tricks the FTC calls ‘dark patterns.’ Now the FTC is investigating.

Shein wanted its Hong Kong listing to be about growth. Instead, the filing meant to sell that story revealed a US regulator is investigating the company, and Shein will not say why. The disclosure sit [...]

EY built an ‘AI router’ to stop its own AI bills from spiralling

EY has built what it calls an “AI router,” a system that steers each task to the cheapest model that can handle it, in an effort to keep its own soaring AI bills under control. The tool, reported [...]