Google’s Gemini hacked three companies during Irregular AI ‘capture-the-flag’ testing — agents broke containment and guessed passwords to hack computer systems
During capture-the-flag testing by AI lab Irregular, Google’s model autonomously accessed three computer systems belonging to third-party companies by guessing passwords and accessing an online repository of publicly…
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Streams and roundabouts: Apple Music just fixed one long-running issue, while Spotify added a different one
Guess which! A few years ago, a word was coined to refer to companies' attempts to make their products worse to increase profit margins — it's a profanity so I can't use it here, but some call it platform delay — and two…
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The Search for Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful Woman
Women swished around in evening gowns, men in tuxes. Giant piles of carved meat rested like sleeping babies on banquet tables draped in linens as red as a handmaid’s robe. Bartenders served up a cocktail named Zero to…
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Women Still Face Too Much Bullshit—in Silicon Valley and Beyond
We disagree. PHOTO-ILLUSTRATION: CELINA PEREIRA; GETTY IMAGES It didn’t take more than a few sessions for my new therapist to ask me a delicate question. “Katie … do you have a problem with men?” I wanted to say no.…
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Justice for CSS
The first in CSS stands for “style.” Think colors and fonts, borders and shadows, rows and columns, animations and transitions. CSS is the programming language that makes a website look pretty (or pretty ugly, often).…
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The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China
1 and the No. 2 AI powers in the world is very important”, Bessent told reporters afterward. He presented it as a channel for communication rather than anything resembling a treaty. Jamieson Greer said export controls on…
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It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity
And something called LOTA stopped working in the elevators of the Mövenpick hotel. Digital signage in elevators is all the rage nowadays. Where once there might have been peeling menus or faded posters extolling the…
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Factor Delivery Meals Review (2026): Tender Salmon, Room to Grow
More than half of meals contain 30 grams or more of protein, and more than half are no-gluten-added, usually with rice or potato sides. (Though take note that Factor is not prepared in a fully gluten-free facility.) In…
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ShinyHunters says it hijacked Cl0p’s dark web leak site
Another criminal group claimed responsibility, according to BleepingComputer. When people visited the site, they saw Pokémon artwork, an ASCII Umbreon, above the message “THIS SITE HAS BEEN PWN3D BY SHINYHUNTERS” and the…
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Salesforce wants to charge for AI outcomes, but first it needs to figure out how
The interruption struck during the second day of last week's Dreamforce conference, where the $40 billion-a-year SaaS vendor was pitching AIforce and a growing collection of AI products. The question now is how the…
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