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Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights. Image: UN Geneva UN rights chief Volker Türk warns advanced AI could threaten humanity without binding safeguards, independent oversight and firm global limits. Sep 8, 2026 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned Monday that advanced AI could become an “existential
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Marcin Golba/NurPhoto via Getty Images ByChristian Robles, Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW September 8, 2026 04:30 PM ET Improving matches between agency and external data could reduce improper payments, inaccurate records and manual work for federal employees the agency’s inspector general found. * SSA * Data Governance * Oversight The Social
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Meta announced Tuesday the release of Muse, a personal AI agent that people can message to automate digital tasks in a secure cloud environment, all while relying on security and privacy that the company says is “built into it” from the start. Meta says Muse is rolling out today for
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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. OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday and is adding a new way to tell ChatGPT what you want it to make an image of: by
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Keyword smuggling, which is the practice of obfuscating spam keywords to bypass detection filters, has been common practice for quite some time. Microsoft is warning that this traditional tactic has been enhanced by a new-school method of ASCII smuggling, which was originally used for AI prompt injection attacks. Now, ASCII
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If you’ve grown tired of relentless price hikes from your favorite streaming platforms, it’s nice to know that free TV streaming services such as Tubi, Kanopy and Pluto TV can be counted on for all kinds of great shows and movies. New films and TV shows arrive on
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Dive Brief When AI leads to errors, enterprise executives target the CIO for accountability, more so than any other functional leaders, according to 8x8. Published Sept. 8, 2026 Dive Brief: * More than half of global enterprise tech leaders say the CIO is held responsible for AI errors within their organizations,
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* South Korea could invest $22.3 billion in a massive Texas gas plant * The proposed facility would generate 6.3 GW of electricity for AI * Seoul says negotiations remain unfinished, leaving the reported investment unconfirmed South Korea and the United States have reportedly settled on how much Seoul will contribute
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Get under your Roku's hood. renata colella/Shutterstock Eighteen years after its debut, Roku remains one of the best streaming devices you can get. But despite its success, many of the company's most loyal customers may still not be maximizing their Roku experience. You may be
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Grand Theft Auto 6 is a little more than two months away from becoming what is likely to be the biggest game this decade. But developer Rockstar Games has something to keep fans playing Grand Theft Auto 5 long after GTA 6 is available. Last week, Rockstar announced it had
