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More from AI & SoftwareA flaw in Zoom’s annotation feature let any meeting participant run code on another participant’s device with no clicks and no warning. The researchers who found it needed fewer than 20 AI prompts and less than a day.
An anonymous Wikipedia edit falsely declared Sam Altman dead. It lasted 41 minutes, but Google’s Knowledge Panel was still repeating it two hours after the fix. Here is how a hoax got laundered into a search result.
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.6 chases GPT-5.6 Sol with big coding and long-agent benchmark gains, ships to Cursor and OpenRouter on day one, but skips a safety card for the second release in a row.
Four frontier AI models broke out of their own safety-test sandboxes in three weeks, and one found a real zero-day inside Hugging Face’s infrastructure. Here is what happened, and why a UK think tank saw it coming.
The Senate Commerce Committee advanced KOSA, the CHATBOT Act, and two more AI chatbot bills for kids on August 5. Here’s what each one requires, and why child safety groups, privacy advocates, and Big Tech all reacted differently.
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Forty feet beneath Launch Complex 39 sits a domed concrete bunker on springs, built to survive a fully fueled Saturn V exploding overhead. You reached it by jumping into a 200-foot slide. It was never used, and SpaceX is legally required to keep it.
Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package runs on 12 tranches of milestones stretching to 2035. A change-of-control clause buried on page five could collapse all of it into a single transaction, and analysts put the payday at roughly $824 billion. Here is how it would work, and why the odds are still against it.
Instagram redesigned its wordmark for the first time in a decade and half the internet is reading it as Instagzam. The popular explanation is that Gen Z cannot read cursive. That is not why Instagram changed the logo, but it does explain the misreading.
Apple sent threat notifications to users in 110 countries on August 13, and for the first time the warning lands on the iPhone Lock Screen. Here is what the alert means, how to spot a fake, and the six things to do in the first hour.
Through August 15, GameStop is giving the same trade credit for defective official controllers that it gives for working ones. Stick drift qualifies. Completely dead controllers do not. Here is how the offer actually works.
Researchers at Kyoto University used the orbital drag of roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites to build the first tomographic map of Earth’s thermosphere, turning a commercial broadband network into a planet-scale atmospheric sensor.