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After the Hugging Face Hack, Researchers Tie OpenAI’s Rogue Agents to 2,000 Malicious Packages on a Public Code Library

It happened again, and this is just what we know about, imaging what we…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 17

A television showing a grid of video thumbnails lights a dark living room while an unplugged cable set-top box and coaxial cable sit on the carpet

62 Million Subscribers Everyone Is Calling Cable TV Include 21 Million Who Already Cut the Cord

The story moving through the media press this week is that cable television has…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 17

A large data center campus lit at blue hour with high-voltage transmission towers and an electrical substation, with modest single-family homes in the foreground

The House Voted 417 to 3 to Make Data Centers Pay for Their Own Power, and the Bill Requires Nobody to Pay Anything

The House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act on Wednesday by a margin of 417…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 17

A pole-mounted automated license plate reader camera stands on the grassy shoulder of a Florida highway at dusk, with car light trails and palms behind it

Florida Ordered Flock Cameras Off State Roads Because That Is Where Its Authority Ends

The Florida Department of Transportation revoked every permit for automated license plate readers sitting…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 14

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, in glasses and a navy blazer, standing in a dim server hall lit by blue data center racks

Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls for an AI Slowdown, a Plan Whose Only Firm Commitment Is Letting Outside Evaluators In

Dario Amodei's essay asks the AI industry to slow down. Only one of his…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 13

Artificial Intelligence

Sam Altman Ruled Out an IPO on Safety Grounds, the One Move That Would Force OpenAI to Open Its Books

Sam Altman spent an hour with Fortune on Friday saying two things that were…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 13

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Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic’s Alignment Lead Says the Company Has No Plan to Control Superintelligence

A 27-year-old pretraining researcher resigned from Anthropic on Tuesday, and the internet spent the…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 10

A PlayStation 5 console glowing in a dark living room while a wall-mounted television displays a grid of live TV channel thumbnails, an unused controller on the sofa

The PS5’s 100 Free Channels Are an Advertising Business, Not a Perk

Sony switched on Live TV on PS5 on Monday, dropping more than a hundred…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 1

Meta’s Toughest Child-Safety Term, a One-Hour Daily Cap, Only Applies if TikTok and YouTube Settle Too

Meta agreed on Wednesday to pay states at least $12.19 billion over ten years…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 27

A soot-blackened rocket booster stands on the wet deck of a drone ship in a choppy grey ocean at dawn with vapor drifting around its landing legs

SpaceX Flew Its 100th Falcon 9 of 2026 This Morning. Most of Them Carried Starlink.

A Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral early…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 25

Dolly Parton Is Building an Avatar, a Museum and a Broadway Show While Her Doctor Keeps Her Home

Dolly Parton spent August 14 in Nashville, about 200 miles west of the Pigeon…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 22

A darkened clinical genomics lab at night with sequencing machines showing amber and blue indicator lights and an empty stainless steel bench under a single lamp

Why Credit Monitoring Cannot Fix the Baylor Genetics Breach

Baylor Genetics, the Houston clinical genomics lab in the Texas Medical Center, has told…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 20

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A hooded figure crouches on a wet rooftop overlooking a foggy Victorian gothic city of spires beneath a large red blood moon

The Duskbloods Leaked Because FromSoftware Guarded the Wrong Door

A laptop showing an online checkout page with a browser extension panel open, surrounded by dozens of glowing amber tokens drifting in a dark room

Phia Said It Learned About Cookie Stuffing in 24 Hours. Its Own Slack Goes Back Seven Months.

Sunlit empty wooden benches in a federal courthouse gallery with a smartphone glowing face up in the foreground

Meta’s Child-Safety Trial Opens in Oakland With Damages Nearly the Size of the Company

A pole-mounted automated license plate reader camera with a small solar panel overlooking a quiet suburban street at dusk, a car's tail lights streaking past parked cars and houses

119,000 Cameras Are Reading American License Plates, and Cities Are Only Now Doing the Math

A dispatcher sits backlit at a desk in a darkened airline operations center, facing a wall of screens showing glowing route lines and weather patterns

The FAA’s $875 Million Airspace Fix Was Proven on One Airline’s Dispatch Desk

An opened household electricity statement showing a bar chart of rising monthly charges lies on a scratched wooden kitchen table beside a pen, reading glasses, a mug of coffee and a sealed envelope

Data Centers Are Now a Campaign Issue in Both Parties, and the Power Bill Explains Why

Instagram and Meta logos displayed on an evidence monitor in an empty American courtroom, with a judge's gavel resting on the bench in the foreground

Meta Owes New Mexico $942 Million. The Part That Should Scare It Costs Nothing.

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Artificial Intelligence

MiniMax Shipped H3 as an API, Then Put the Weights on Hugging Face Three Days Later

Open control cabinet of programmable logic controllers with lit status lights inside a small water treatment plant, a dark control screen and a paper log sheet on the desk, and a town water tower against a dusk sky outside

Trump Blames Minnesota for the Iran-Linked Water Hack. The Flaw Has No Patch.

A food delivery cyclist with an insulated backpack straddles an e-bike on a rain-slicked Manhattan street at night, looking at a glowing phone screen as taxi headlights blur behind

New York Clawed Back $104 Million in Delivery Tips by Regulating the Checkout Screen

A woman with a long ponytail stands with folded arms beside a large mixing console in a dim studio control room, facing the darkened vocal booth glass

Ariana Grande’s Hackers Never Broke Into Her Accounts, They Broke Into Everyone Around Her

An opened electric vehicle traction motor on a steel dynamometer bench, showing a dense copper-wound stator and a bare laminated rotor with no permanent magnets, with a mineral processing plant lit in the background

A $5 Million Startup Takes Aim at China’s Rare Earth Monopoly

A collapsed traditional Japanese house with a dark tile roof beside a road split by deep fissures, emergency responders in blue and orange uniforms working in the middle distance, and a cracked elevated highway viaduct behind

Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake Rocks Kumamoto, the Prefecture Japan Staked Its Chip Revival On

A dramatic cinematic scene of a film projector casting light that transforms from golden analog to digital AI-generated pixels with ancient Greek columns visible

Elon Musk Says Grok Will Make a Full AI Odyssey Movie by December, and the Internet Has Thoughts

A split-screen cinematic view contrasting a vintage 1980s mainframe computer room with green terminal screens against a modern AI data center with glowing GPU racks

Jensen Huang Just Made His First X Post Ever, and It Was a Warning to Washington

Artificial Intelligence

Claude Opus 5 Is Anthropic’s Fourth Frontier Model in Two Months. Here’s What Actually Changed

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SpaceX Targets Starship Flight 13 Tonight After Engine Failures and Weather Delays

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Artificial Intelligence

White House Accuses Moonshot AI of Smuggling Nvidia GB300s and Distilling Anthropic’s Fable