Elon Musk vows to talk to Tim Cook about Apple ‘hidden tax’
Elon Musk vowed to personally approach Apple CEO Tim Cook in hopes of getting the iPhone maker to reduce the 30% “hidden tax” that it levies on app developers who...
What happens to your personal info after a data breach?
Your most sensitive data is online. Sure, you don’t just post your banking details and medical records just anywhere, but hackers still find them — then sell them to anyone...
Mark Zuckerberg reveals he eats 4,000 calories a day, details hefty McDonald’s order
Mark Zuckerberg is onto burger and better things. The Meta CEO has revealed that he’s munching on a whopping 4,000 calories a day on a diet that consists of McDonald’s...
LK-99 superconductor breakthrough could mark ‘new era’
Imagine riding a levitating train at speeds of 14,000 miles per hour — cutting the trip from New York to Los Angeles to just 20 minutes. A team of South...
One of Gaming’s Biggest YouTubers Wants to Replace Himself With AI
“In this industry, it’s like you’re starting this company, but the company solely relies on this one individual to be able to perform,” he says. “And that is absolutely a...
NASA loses contact with probe in deep space for 47 years
Somebody really spaced out on this one. NASA has lost contact with its deep space, Voyager 2 probe after giving the spacecraft an incorrect command two weeks ago. On Tuesday,...
Adobe employees fear its AI products could prompt clients to lay off workers
Adobe employees raised red flags about their company’s new generative AI features, fearing the enhanced design tools could spur clients to fire workers, according to a report. The Silicon Valley-based...
Apple-1 computer signed by Steve Wozniak up for auction
A vintage Apple computer signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak is being sold at auction. The Apple-1 set in motion the company that in June became the first publicly traded...
Fox anchor Bob Kelly sucker punched at Jersey Shore bar
A Philadelphia TV news anchor known as the “Dean of Traffic” sported a visibly swollen eye while on the air Tuesday — the result of being sucker punched in an...
Feds open probe into 280K new Tesla cars over steering issue
US auto safety regulators said Tuesday they have opened an investigation into 280,000 new Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles over reports of loss of steering control and power steering. The...
Instagram boss moves back to US days after Threads loses half its users
The head of Instagram has ditched working from London after a highly-publicized move across the Pond last year to return to the US — as Threads struggles to retain users....
A New Attack Impacts ChatGPT—and No One Knows How to Stop It
“Making models more resistant to prompt injection and other adversarial ‘jailbreaking’ measures is an area of active research,” says Michael Sellitto, interim head of policy and societal impacts at Anthropic....
How AI May Be Used to Create Custom Disinformation Ahead of 2024
“If I want to launch a disinformation campaign, I can fail 99 percent of the time. You fail all the time, but it doesn’t matter,” Farid says. “Every once in...
These new tools could help protect our pictures from AI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Earlier this year, when I realized...
Pulsating ‘X’ sign at San Francisco HQ infuriates neighbors
Elon Musk’s publicity stunt to rebrand Twitter with a strobe-lit “X” atop the company’s San Francisco headquarters has drawn the wrath of neighbors — and the company has pulled the...
