Mammotion’s Spino E1 Is Affordable but Doesn’t Quite Deliver
…Good news: The Turbo Cleaning mode available through the app was visibly more effective and bizarrely did not impact battery life at all. The bad news is that this option, still in…
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Taylor Lorenz’s Screen Time Is Almost 17 Hours a Day
…Favorite news source: Terrence O’Connor’s weekly cultural digest videos on TikTok I like the presentation. It’s a lot of news that I'm going to probably see on PopCrave…
The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop
…And social media platforms like TikTok and YouTube are, increasingly, where (real) fans discover new music. “We can drive impressions on anything at this point,” Spelman told Billboard. “We know how to…
It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App
A WIRED investigation this week revealed new details about the private surveillance state instituted by MSG owner Jim Dolan and his head of security, John Eversole. According to court records and WIRED…
Taylor Swift Wants to Trademark Her Likeness. These TikTok Deepfake Ads Show Why
…Any individual stands to have their likeness exploited in the creation of nonconsensual AI-generated material; earlier this month, an Ohio man was the first person convicted under a new federal law…
Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up
…OpenAI’s head of Codex, Thibault Sottiaux, has been tapped to lead the company's core product and platform teams. Sottiaux was a key leader in building Codex into one of the…
Good Luck Getting a Mac Mini for the Next ‘Several Months’
…amazing platforms for AI and agentic tools,” Cook said on the earnings call, in response to analyst questions. “And customer adoption of that is happening faster than we expected.” The news comes…
Foxconn Ransomware Attack Shows Nothing Is Safe Forever
…Ransomware and data extortion is an inveterate digital security problem, and attackers regularly repeat targets and stoop to new lows in carrying out large-scale disruptive attacks. Just last week, thousands of…
That Ex-CIA Agent in All Your Feeds Is After a Pardon From Donald Trump
…Kiriakou later discussed the agency’s torture tactics in a 2007 interview with ABC News, where he went on to serve as a terrorism consultant. Five years later, the Justice Department charged…
Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence
…Where I am disappointed is that I had hoped when I helped set it up that you’d have other platforms buying into it by this stage. You hoped that other platforms…