The tech giant’s claim that it has not seen any successful spyware attacks targeting Apple devices with Lockdown Mode enabled comes amid a leak of hacking tools targeting users running devices with older software.
Can You Become an Engineer Without Starting in Engineering? A Guide for Students
[[{“value”:” You don’t need to grow up building machines or solving equations every day to step into engineering. If you’re curious, motivated and willing to learn, you can absolutely carve your way into this field, even if your starting point looks completely different. Your path doesn’t have to follow the traditional “high school → engineering degree → job” route. In…
OpenAI shuts down Sora while Meta gets shut out in court
When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman was offered $26 million from an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure, that same company can try to rezone 2,000 acres nearby anyway, but as AI infrastructure stretches further into the real world, the real world is starting to push back. That tension is everywhere […]
Flight Crew Alum Neha Shukla, Now a Leading AI Ethicist, On What’s Missing from AI Education
[[{“value”:” When Neha Shukla first started in computer science, she wasn’t in a traditional classroom setting. She was 15, in a small town in Pennsylvania, teaching herself to code during the COVID-19 pandemic and trying to solve a problem she saw all around her community. “I wanted to channel that sense of hopelessness [about COVID-19] into action,” she says. “I…
David Sacks is done as AI czar — here’s what he’s doing instead
Sacks will be much further from power center in Washington than since the outset of this second Trump administration.
Anthropic wins injunction against Trump administration over Defense Department saga
A federal judge has ordered that the Trump administration rescind recent restrictions it placed on the AI company.
You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini
Google is launching “switching tools” that, just as it sounds, will make it easier for users of other chatbots to switch to Gemini.
Wikipedia cracks down on the use of AI in article writing
The site, whose policies are subject to change, has struggled with the issue of AI-generated writing.
Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp
Mastodon is redesigning user profiles to simplify the experience and better appeal to mainstream users and organizations.
Netflix confirms it’s raising prices again
The standard plan without ads now costs $19.99 per month, a $2 increase from the previous $17.99 subscription fee, while the premium plan is also going up by $2 and will now cost $26.99 per month.