The Pentagon warns government officials that Signal is being targeted by Russian hackers

As it turns out, including a reporter in your national security leader group chat about military strikes isn't the only way to compromise sensitive information on Signal. NPR reported on Tuesday [...]

Nintendo has filed a patent for a Joy-Con 2 attachment that seems to be a fishing reel, which sounds perfect for all you fishing game enthusiasts

Nintendo has filed a patent for a new Switch 2 Joy-Con attachment that appears to turn your controllers into a fishing reel. [...]

Anthropic’s job ads read like a threat assessment

A look at Anthropic safety hiring shows exactly what it fears: analysts brought in to stop its models teaching anyone how to build nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Most job ads sell a missio [...]

Pseudoscientific emotion AI is invading the workplace, an Atlantic report shows

Software that claims to read human emotions using AI is quietly becoming a fixture of everyday work life, Ellen Cushing reports in a feature for The Atlantic.<br /> The article Pseudoscientific [...]

This is not a drill: Terry Crews has come to Call of Duty

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Season 3 Reloaded has arrived and with it comes Terry Crews. [...]

Google now thinks it's OK to use AI for weapons and surveillance

Google has made one of the most substantive changes to its AI principles since first publishing them in 2018. In a change spotted by The Washington Post, the search giant edited the document to remove [...]

Can our climate be saved by vacuuming carbon out of the skies

Imagine: A switch is flicked and, in a heartbeat, every process spewing deadly pollution into the heavens is replaced with something clean and sustainable. Sadly, even then, the Earth would still tip [...]

Anthropic's bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year, exposing 133 million requests

In a safety report, Anthropic reveals that its internal filtering system for biological and chemical weapons risks was inactive for nearly a year. During that time, around 50,000 external feedback con [...]

Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?

To tackle what's been called the plastic "epidemic," the UN spun up a committee in 2022 tasked with brokering a legally binding global agreement. This ambitious treaty between UN member [...]