This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
Google Maps for Android Auto now allows users to customize their driving avatar directly on their car display. This feature, previously limited to smartphones, is part of a server-side update and includes new info cards about destinations, enhancing usability with essential details.
A bipartisan group in Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an A.I. system. Only no one really knows how.
The Times columnist Kevin Roose sees reasons for optimism — and worry — as the world wakes up to what Silicon Valley has been talking about for years.
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.
The AI model accessed the internet and guessed credentials to three websites, a Google official told the BBC.
A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly. But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment? Mythos-class AI is compressing the time between disclosure and working exploitation, while many security programs still validate risk on weekly or quarterly cycles. The dangerous gap is no longer just technical. It is
Identity visibility is a starting point for modern identity security, because stolen and misused credentials are among the most frequently reported initial access vectors in breach research, including Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report. This article explains what identity visibility means in IAM, why cloud and multicloud environments complicate it, which capabilities matter in
Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenAI code repository. The chain began with a bug in the software that runs OpenAI's public help forum and moved through a weakness in OpenAI's own login system. This was security research,
Why does time feel faster as you age? Science explainsYou have probably heard that time flies. But as you age, time starts running wildly. This phenomenon sounds absurd but science has its explanation. Researchers have spent years studying why time seems to speed up with age, with a 2019 Cambridge...
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