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Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly "killing all humans," our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack - and the risk is growing. "We were always prey. We were just kind of surviving at the appetite of our predators," Joshua Corman, execut...
The same calculator has been on most kids' back to school shopping list since the early 2000's and the dominance of Texas Instruments' calculator division goes back even farther. In the next episode of Version History, David Pierce is joined by The Verge's Nilay Patel and Victoria Song to tell t...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 144, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, new tech season is here, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I flew out to Los Angeles to try on and write about Snap's...
Wireless charging offers convenience, to be sure, but how does it affect your battery over time? And is it a problem if your phone heats up?
FBI Director Kash Patel stated in an interview that he's responsible for a "605% increase" in the bureau's usage of AI. The problem is that it's hard to pin down what the figure refers to.
Drones built with small, non-frontier computer-vision models autonomously identified and attacked targets in a recent demo.
Article URL: https://sagivo.com/blog/im-tired-of-the-ai-tone Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774665 Points: 12 # Comments: 6
Thermacell LIV 2.0 is expensive and imperfect, but it outperforms nearly every mosquito-control method I’ve tried.
Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP's inner circle.
“This is a place where you can come and say, I fucking hate my dog today,” a Dogs Anonymous cofounder tells WIRED. “And there are people who are going to be like, yeah, that was me last Tuesday.”
Chief executive of Nvidia claims that fears that AI will destroy humanity in the coming years are unsubstantiated as safety mechanisms can preserve that.
An official Russian media clip shows Putin voting on a Dell PC with an unlicensed copy of Windows.
The president has doubled down on data centers and AI. His base is running in the opposite direction.
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
Article URL: https://www.chesterwisniewski.com/post/2026-09-13-ai-is-destroying-the-creative-commons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774329 Points: 43 # Comments: 4
PS Audio and Naim had to cease production of two Hi-Fi models as manufacturers quit making optical drives, even as CD and vinyl have hit record sales in recent months.
Unlike previous Ferrari four-seaters, this one is better for humans than cargo.
The FCC banned the sale of new consumer-grade Wi-Fi routers and mobile hot spots manufactured outside the US. Here’s what it means for you.
“You know ‘Bang Bus’? We don’t want that.”