Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling
…Since X is “at the center of a family of companies—including xAI—that are at the forefront of America’s AI ambitions,” the FTC risks running afoul of Trump’s decree…
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Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com
…We don’t have a hard timeline right now, but we will work directly with the mods, developers, and communities that depend on our systems and make sure to keep everyone updated…
LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false
…It also could help explain Anthropic’s recent claims that fictional stories about “evil AI” in training data can lead LLMs to display similar “evil” behaviors . Then there’s that Anthropic study…
New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics
…This is the premise of the new campaign, as written on the blog post announcing the update: As the battle-hardened Ranger, players survive a labyrinthine dimension where time folds back onto…
Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Earlier this week, researchers outlined an attack that used a secret input provided by Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise to cause the AI assistant to exfiltrate a password present in the user…
Fairphone's latest repairable phone is finally available in the US for $650
…The new phone runs a standard build of Android 16 with all the usual Google services, and the company promises seven years of update support. The power of the Fairphone is its…
Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
…After a couple of bumpy years during which Linux users who wanted BIOS updates would need to figure out how to temporarily install Windows first, Framework’s BIOS updates are available for…
Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn
…We’ve asked for clarification and will update if Google provides more information. Ryan Whitwam is a senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, covering the ways Google, AI, and mobile technology continue…
Samsung unveils new Galaxy Z8 foldables and Galaxy Watches, available August 7
…The new phones will ship with Android 17 and One UI 9, which Samsung says has been further optimized for the AI era. Now Brief can make more suggestions, including for security…
Iran struck Amazon data centers again amid widening war, satellites show
…The AWS dashboard showing the status of AWS services in the affected cloud region has not been updated since April 30. That last status update had stated the damaged data centers were…