AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years
…Notably, Nebula found the bug with VEGA, its AI-driven bug-hunting tool, part of a 2026 run of Linux privilege-escalation flaws surfaced by automated tools combing old kernel code few…
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Trump Administration Won’t Rule Out Further Action Against Anthropic
…The months-long dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic began when the AI startup refused to sign off on its current technologies being used by the military for any lawful purpose, which…
Pickup Artist Mystery Has an AI Girlfriend
So says an AI-animated female character in a black turtleneck, with dark, purple-streaked hair. The video was posted to Instagram on June 17 by one Erik von Markovik, the infamous…
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated…
7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran
…In other news, more details have emerged about OpenAI’s “rogue” AI agent breach of Hugging Face’s platform. OpenAI disclosed that the AI agent hacked multiple third-party accounts and services…
Siri AI Is Becoming Apple’s Everything Tool
…Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI. Your iPhone essentially builds a searchable, on-device database during the indexing process. It’s labeled as “Optimizing Search and Siri” in more recent iOS 27 developer…
The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days
…And the ACLU is equipping lawyers in Massachusetts with a new toolkit to expose state surveillance technologies used for building criminal cases—shedding light on everything from face recognition tools to AI…
Gamers’ Worst Nightmares About AI Are Coming True
…AI's proliferation in the gaming industry is already accelerating job loss and cheapening the work of developers at studios now scrutinized by anti-AI gamers. Data centers have siphoned RAM from…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs
…He sounds exactly like us when we're explaining why AI could never replace a human editor. We're like, "There's a taste aspect. AI could never." Brian Barrett: So we…
Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’
…Thing in AI, host Nicholas Thompson—CEO of The Atlantic and a former WIRED editor in chief—asked who NameTag would identify during a part of the discussion labeled “What’s true…