In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT
Health officials in Illinois turned to an AI chatbot to try to solve a puzzling outbreak linked to a county fair. But whether it was
Category: Tech
Trump administration bans Anthropic, seemingly embraces OpenAI
The Trump administration on Friday moved to ban the use of products from artificial intelligence company Anthropic by federal businesses, escalating a high-stakes clash over
AI doesn’t think like a human. Stop talking to it as if it does
Autonomous agents take the first part of their names very seriously and don’t necessarily do what their humans tell them to do — or not
I'm Low-key Hyped for This Data Center Sim (Though It Has No Official Linux Support)
There’s a free demo up on Steam right now, and I took it for a spin.
Your Linux LTS Kernel Will Be Supported Longer Than You Thought
More breathing room for distros and enterprise Linux users as LTS kernels get extended EOL dates.
Whoops: US military laser strike takes down CBP drone near Mexican border
The US military mistakenly shot down a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) drone near the Mexican border in a strike that reportedly used a laser-based
The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
We haven’t had a new film from Gore Verbinski for nine years. But the director who brought us the first three Pirates of the Caribbean
Anthropic to Department of Defense: Drop dead
In recent weeks, AI giant Anthropic has been locked in a high‑stakes confrontation with the Trump administration’s Department of Defense (DoD) over new standard terms
Jack Dorsey shrinks Block to ‘intelligence‑native’ model, cutting 4,000 jobs
Block, the payments and financial services company led by Jack Dorsey, is cutting more than 4,000 jobs, nearly half its workforce, because AI tools have
The British Watch Brand Apiar Goes Beyond Traditional Constraints
The tech-focused leaders of the British brand Apiar aim to stretch beyond watchmaking’s traditional material and manufacturing constraints.
Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 2.5kB of data into 64-byte space
Google on Friday unveiled its plan for its Chrome browser to secure HTTPS certificates against quantum computer attacks without breaking the Internet. The objective is
Photons that aren’t actually there influence superconductivity
Despite the headline, this isn’t really a story about superconductivity—at least not the superconductivity that people care about, the stuff that doesn’t require exotic refrigeration
Trump administration bans Anthropic, escalating clash over military use of AI
The Trump administration on Friday moved to ban the use of products from artificial intelligence company Anthropic by federal businesses, escalating a high-stakes clash over
OpenAI launches stateful AI on AWS, signaling a control plane power shift
Stateless AI, in which a model offers one-off answers without context from previous sessions, can be helpful in the short-term but lacking for more complex