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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. xAI’s Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a “massive improvement” over Wikipedia, apparently hasn’t been updated since
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In a talk that was a last-minute addition to the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, employees from OpenAI presented new details about a recent, high-profile incident of rogue AI hacking that has created a maelstrom within the AI and cybersecurity industries. About two weeks ago, OpenAI
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* Michael Dell marked 42 years since PC's Limited by reposting its 31 July 1984 statement, showing ~$135,000 of net income on roughly a million dollars of sales from $1,000 of starting capital * The document, which he also showed in March 2018, served as a baseline for
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If you’re an Android user itching for that iMessage experience, Sunbird Messaging is back and available right now. The company announced its return on Wednesday, three years after it was shut down in 2023 due to privacy concerns. Sunbird’s big selling point is that its messaging app lets
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* Virtual Mac on iPad gets macOS running on compatible iPads * It requires a jailbroken tablet and specific versions of iPadOS * Its many limitations mean I don’t think it’s worth the hassle For years, people have been wondering if Apple is ever going to “merge” iPadOS and macOS into
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The Turtle Beach Command Series KB5 is a large mechanical gaming keyboard with an unimpressive plastic construction. The included wrist rest is a welcome and comfort-increasing addition, though, and the ultra-low profile keycaps are easy to navigate. However, they require a relatively heavy touch to actuate, and the sheer width
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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For years, North Korea’s stealthy hackers and scam IT workers have infiltrated companies, stealing corporate secrets and plundering billions in cryptocurrency to help fund the totalitarian regime and its weapons programs. Now, a security researcher who has spent almost two years inside the systems belonging to a group of
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OpenAI’s Atlas web browser could have security protections bypassed and be tricked into spamming dozens of WhatsApp contacts or making unauthorized purchases on Amazon, according to new research presented today at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. The Atlas findings, from researchers at security firm Zenity, are
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Black Hat USA 2026 – Las Vegas – Using email platforms to target users is nothing new in the world of threat actors. Nor is it revolutionary for defenders who've shored up guardrails when it comes to suspicious attachments, malicious JavaScript, and more. But as these well-known threats take command
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Black Hat USA 2026 – Las Vegas – In bad news for financial institutions, online retailers, cryptocurrency exchanges, and people in the dating pool who rely on identity verification to make sure they're not getting taken for a ride, global fraud gangs are aggressively industrializing their scam efforts. That'
