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* The first full trailer for Lioness season 3 has been released * Taylor Sheridan's series is set to return to Paramount+ on August 2 * Zoe Saldaña, Michael Kelly, Morgan Freeman, and Nicole Kidman will all return We've only spent a few weeks without a new episode of
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The first part of my conversationwith writer, tech consultant, public speaker and avowed humanist Kate O’Neill, centered on the commercial cynicism behind some vendors’ attempts to anthropomorphize AI. By doing so, they absolve themselves of blame for chatbots’ errors, while still, mysteriously, claiming the credit for their successes. It&
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Another thing people forget to do until the internet is already down? Download emergency phone apps. As of October 2025, FEMA has an app. Your local municipal or state government likely also has opt-in emergency push notifications. Consider opting in. WIRED has also cataloged a number of other personal safety
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AI transcription headphones with an open design that delivers clear audio for calls and music while still letting you hear what's going on around you. Like most modern earphones, they can be used for music and making calls, but it's the real-time transcription and meeting summaries
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* Anthropic has a new 'hard questions' ad for Claude and AI * Reactions to the short clip have been mixed * OpenAI boss Sam Altman says the ad feels like satire Anthropic has a new ad out for its Claude AI chatbot, and it ties into its Hard Questions project
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In this exclusive SecurityWeek interview, Brian “SchleiF” Schleifer sits down with Clint Bodungen, Director of AI/ML Engineering at Arcovo, founder of ThreatGen, and one of the industry’s leading voices in industrial cybersecurity. Together they tackle why traditional governance often fails practitioners, how cybersecurity has evolved over the past
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A PC gamer with a love of physical cartridges has built a unique game loading system for their Steam library. Upcycling some old 2.5-inch SATA SSDs, they built game cartridges for individual games, loading the game itself and a boot script onto the internal SSD so it boots as
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AI companies have overwhelming incentives to anthropomorphize their products and persuade users that chatbots are conscious, sentient, and capable of rational thought and feelings. But those incentives are largely commercial, and the debate about AIs’ supposed superintelligence is a deliberate distraction from their real-world human impacts and harms. That’s
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Just after 9am on Thursday, roughly 100 Google workers gathered outside the company’s Mountain View headquarters, placards in hand, to press a demand that would once have sounded quaint: let us keep our jobs. The rally, organised by the Alphabet Workers Union, ended with the delivery of a petition
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Meta will start telling parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot. The company set out the change in a blog post on Thursday. The alerts go to parents who use Instagram supervision tools. They are live now in the US, UK, Australia and Canada,
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The people building the most powerful AI rarely agree on much. This week, three of them agreed on one big thing. The frontier needs regulating, and soon. Over five weeks, the chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic each published a memo on how to police the most capable AI
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The US telecoms regulator wants ID checks before you can buy a phone. Privacy groups say the plan would end anonymous burner phones and tie every American’s identity to a number. Buying a phone without handing over your identity could soon be impossible in the US. A Federal Communications
