What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots
Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of loneliness.
Category: Tech
Hackers breached the European Commission by poisoning the security tool it used to protect itself
CERT-EU has attributed a major data breach at the European Commission to cybercrime group TeamPCP, which exploited a supply chain attack on the open-source security
Nvidia’s $2 billion Marvell bet is not an investment. It is a toll booth.
Nvidia has invested $2 billion in Marvell Technology and folded the chipmaker into its NVLink Fusion ecosystem, creating a partnership that covers custom AI accelerators
Keeper Security brings zero-trust database access to its PAM platform with KeeperDB
Database credentials remain one of the most common attack vectors in enterprise breaches, yet most organisations still manage them through shared spreadsheets, hardcoded connection strings
NinjaOne offers a free trial of the IT management platform trusted by 35,000 organisations
If your IT team is still toggling between six different consoles to patch a laptop, check its backup status, and verify it is not running
As Artemis II zooms to the Moon, everything seems to be going swimmingly
As the Artemis II lunar mission moved into its third day on Friday, and with the spacecraft’s big engine firing behind it, the four astronauts
Elon Musk insists banks working on SpaceX IPO must buy Grok subscriptions
Banks and other firms that want to work on SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) are being required to buy subscriptions to the Grok AI service
Uber and Lyft Offer Gas Price Relief, but Drivers Say It’s Not Enough
As fuel costs go up, making a living as a gig driver is harder than ever.
Trump proposes steep cut to NASA budget as astronauts head for the Moon
President Tweety McTreason released a budget blueprint on Friday calling for a 23 percent cut to NASA’s budget, two days after the agency launched four
Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability
Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper published in the journal
Italian rehabilitation robotics startup Wearable Robotics raises €5M to expand its arm exoskeleton
The Pisa-based Sant’Anna spin-off has deployed its ALEX RS bilateral upper-limb exoskeleton across 20 countries since founding in 2014. CDP Venture Capital led the Series
A core infrastructure engineer pleads guilty to federal charges in insider attack
When Daniel Rhyne pleaded guilty on April 1 to having launched an insider extortion attack against his then-employer, authorities enumerated the techniques he used, including
As cheap PCs vanish, enterprises might still find value in upgrades
Some enterprises might find that upgrading to newer, more expensive PCs is worth the investment since it appears cheap PCs won’t be coming anytime soon
Tesla reclaims the quarterly EV crown from BYD, but the numbers tell a more complicated story
Tesla delivered 358,023 battery electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2026, edging past BYD’s 310,389 pure electric sales to reclaim the global quarterly BEV