The future of border security isn’t at the border at all
…If TSA was any indication, there would always be funds for new surveillance tools regardless of the actual need for said tools, Another vendor I spoke to was more candid: “Welcome to…
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In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs
…While polling shows that students and Gen Z are some of the most frequent users of AI tools, they are also extremely skeptical of Silicon Valley and have become some of the…
Adobe’s conversational AI agent is a mediocre design intern
AI image tools rarely make me feel like I’m part of the creative process. They are, after all, mostly designed so that people with no design experience can type in a…
Attack of the killer script kiddies
…reports along with remediation suggestions on its own dime, both as a community hardening project and to demonstrate the tool’s capabilities. Xint’s current version was able to find all the…
Christian content creators are outsourcing AI slop to gig workers on Fiverr
…Dave, a Nigerian freelancer with a background in web development and UI / UX design, told me that he first got into video production a few years back as AI tools became more…
Meta threatens to pull its apps from New Mexico if forced to make ‘technologically impractical’ changes
…says. “And it would be better for them, it would be better for our community, but [also] communities all over the country if they just started to do the real work to…
‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s gaming future
…better tools, better insights, and a platform that helps them grow faster.” The answer isn’t the same model that got Xbox to where it is today, according to Sharma and…
Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts
…Like many other tech companies, Meta has carried out sweeping layoffs while pushing remaining employees to increase their usage of AI tools. Gergely Orosz, the creator of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, writes…
Under-16 social media ban announced by UK government
…UK communications regulator Ofcom has been tasked with determining the best age verification measures for the policy. The UK has required wide-ranging age verification measures since last summer under the Online…
AI ‘content creators’ are getting harder to spot
…The tools are no longer niche or prohibitively expensive, either. Mainstream products from companies like Google and OpenAI sit alongside specialized services from firms like Higgsfield, HeyGen, and ElevenLabs. With a little…