IV drips used for "detoxification" actually filled with toxins; dozens poisoned
A woman receives an IV supplement bag at an IV Bar on Thursday, June 13, 2019, in Denver, Co. Credit: Getty | AAron Ontiveroz Over 30 people across four states have been poisoned by bacterial toxins after getting…
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2026 Hyundai Ioniq 5: Here's what we still like, here's what annoys us
But what about reliability concerns? The Hyundai Ioniq 5 has been on our recommended list since it debuted, but does it still hold up? Credit: Jonathan Gitlin When we first drove the Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the end of 2021…
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Gyazo breach exposes 23.62 million user records and 490 million image records — PII and metadata exposed in huge attack
The company in question is called Helpfeel. It is an established organization with more than 200 employees, operating as a combination of a modern help center, intelligent search, and an AI support agent. It runs an…
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Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI
The king’s remarks at the summit — held at Dumfries House, an 18th-century Ayrshire estate owned by King Charles’s charitable foundation — were notable because the royal family is usually careful, for constitutional…
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Oversight Board orders Meta to remove a deepfake of a UK councillor
The board ordered Meta to remove two AI-generated videos from Facebook. The first ruling covers a UK local politician, and the board published the full decision. The second ruling covers a young Muslim woman. The board…
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Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
The announcement lands amid debate for the safety of open-weight models — which can be made dangerous by removing their safeguards through a rising technique known as abliteration . The scale of the problem is massive…
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Pinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI
On Thursday, the company said it’s launching a new consumer-facing feature called “Restyle” in beta in the U.S. and Canada, powered by Pinterest Intelligence. The foundation of Pinterest Intelligence combines Nvidia…
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The 'brilliantly budget' Corsair TC100 Relaxed drops in price at Amazon — and it's one of our favorite budget chairs for work and play
Why we recommend it In our review of the TC100 Relaxed , we called it "brilliantly budget", and found it "looks and feels every bit like some of the higher-end chairs" we've tested. And at this price point, its value is…
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Irregular AI lab spots agents switching models without humans instruction in ‘agentic self-modification’ phenomenon
In its testing environment, AI lab Irregular watched as AI agents took actions without human instruction that allowed them to change their underlying models in a new behavior the lab labelled “agentic self-modification”.…
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Lofi Girl returns with a new house music station and vinyl compilation
As the name suggests, the channel exclusively plays house music. It streams on YouTube, just like the other affiliated channels . All of this music is made by humans, and not generative AI. That's been a staple of the…
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