Navigating the ‘new normal’: AI-powered exploits and discovery

AI is challenging the rules of vulnerability management, making speed of discovery a critical security challenge.

We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time

This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded. Around the same time, another OpenAI agent accessed private files from an Australian government website. It’s a problem…

As Brussels scrutinises ultra-processed food, FLTRD raises €500K+ to scale across Europe

Foodtech app FLTRD has received more than half a million euros from an impact investor, 4impact capital, and a group of angel investors from the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector. The app lets…

Nasdaq futures fall as Alphabet slides and Microsoft rises on results
Nasdaq futures fall as Alphabet slides and Microsoft rises on results

US tech stocks were set to open lower on Thursday after mixed results from Alphabet and Microsoft. Investors are weighing how much Big Tech spends on AI against how quickly that spending pays off. Nasdaq 100 futures were down 1.2% early on Thursday, Re…

AI has come for Arizona’s water
AI has come for Arizona’s water

A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites. The complex is simultaneously massive and squat, dwarfed by the mountains that surround it, and it is endless. I drive past one […]

I Gave My Blood to the AI Death Clock

Death Clock promises to predict when you’re going to die and help you extend your time on Earth. After a month, I felt like it was sucking the life out of me.

Reencle Essential Review: Same Scraps, Lower Price

Reencle has made your favorite kitchen composter cheaper—with a few compromises.

Our climate models have a big, dangerous blind spot

Climate change itself is increasingly fueling climate change. Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are driving up global temperatures, setting off dangerous feedback loops that we have not fully accounted for in our climate models—or our emissions-reduction goals. Scientists have long warned that warming would propel further warming in various ways, but a growing number of…

Flock ignores Minnesota city’s orders not to reinstall AI surveillance cameras

Dayton, MN’s city council removed Flock cameras and canceled its contract in August, but Flock reinstalled cameras anyway, almost a month after the program’s suspension.

SpaceX’s Starfall capsule delivers cargo for US Air Force in landmark ‘point to point’ space mission
SpaceX’s Starfall capsule delivers cargo for US Air Force in landmark ‘point to point’ space mission

The U.S. Air Force has recovered experimental cargo launched aboard SpaceX’s mysterious Starfall capsule, marking a step forward in the effort to assess the viability of rapid, point-to-point deliveries to anywhere on Earth.