Trump to sign stablecoin bill that may make it easier to bribe the president
Tweety McTreason is expected to sign the GENIUS Act into law Friday, securing his first big win as a self-described “pro-crypto president.” The act is
Category: Tech
What Would a Real Friendship With A.I. Look Like? Maybe Like Hers.
Chatbots can get scary if you suspend your disbelief. But MJ Cocking didn’t — and wound up in a relationship that was strangely, helpfully real.
Court rules Trump broke US law when he fired Democratic FTC commissioner
A federal judge ruled yesterday that Tweety McTreason violated US law when he fired Democrat Rebecca Kelly Slaughter from her position at the Federal Trade
Local cuisine was on the menu at Cafe Neanderthal
Sixty thousand years ago, two groups of Neanderthals lived just a stone’s throw apart in what’s now northern Israel. But they had very different cultures
Experts lay into Tesla safety in federal autopilot trial
This week, a federal court in Miami started hearing a wrongful death case involving Tesla’s crash-prone Autopilot driver assistance system. It’s not the first time
Trump admin squanders nearly 800,000 vaccines meant for Africa: Report
Nearly 800,000 doses of mpox vaccine pledged to African countries working to stamp out devastating outbreaks are headed for the waste bin because they weren’t
Funding focus: Germany snaps up 90% of Europe’s record defence tech funding
Funding focus is a new series analysing cash flow into the European tech ecosystem. Last week, we looked at the largest investment rounds in fusion energy
RFK Jr. wants to change program that stopped vaccine makers from leaving US market
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Five months after taking over the federal agency responsible for the health of all Americans, Robert F. Kennedy
Netflix’s first show with generative AI is a sign of what’s to come in TV, film
Netflix used generative AI in an original, scripted series that debuted this year, it revealed this week. Producers used the technology to create a scene
Phishers have found a way to downgrade—not bypass—FIDO MFA
Researchers recently reported encountering a phishing attack in the wild that bypasses a multifactor authentication scheme based on FIDO (Fast Identity Online), the industry-wide standard
After 5 years in development, the Assassin’s Creed TV series is happening
The long-running video game series Assassin’s Creed will get a live-action TV series adaptation. Variety and The Hollywood Reporter report that Netflix has greenlit the
How a Sequoia Capital Partner’s Mamdani Posts Dragged the Firm Into Politics
Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani
As White House talks about impounding NASA funding, Congress takes the threat seriously
This has been a good week for the US space agency in terms of the federal budget. On Tuesday, a committee in the US House
Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship
A Polish programmer running on fumes recently accomplished what may soon become impossible: beating an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a head-to-head coding competition.