Variety: Amazon MGM Studios drops Luca Guadagnino’s mostly finished movie on Sam Altman; Amazon struck a major deal with OpenAI in February, including a $50B investment — The film, starring Andrew Garfield as the controversial OpenAI CEO, will be shopped to other studios.
Read MoreVariety: Amazon MGM Studios drops Luca Guadagnino’s mostly finished movie on Sam Altman; Amazon struck a major deal with OpenAI in February, including a $50B investment — The film, starring Andrew Garfield as the controversial OpenAI CEO, will be shopped to other studios.
Read MoreA new security bypass has users installing AI agent OpenClaw — whether they intended to or not. Researchers have discovered that a compromised npm publish token pushed an update for the widely-used Cline command line interface (CLI) containing a malicious postinstall script. That script installs the wildly popular, but increasingly condemned, agentic application OpenClaw on
Read MoreMeta is pivoting Horizon Worlds away from its original VR-centric metaverse vision and toward a mobile-first strategy, “explicitly separating” its Quest VR platform from the virtual world. TechCrunch reports: By going mobile-first, Horizon Worlds is positioning itself to compete with popular platforms like Roblox and Fortnite. “We’re in a strong position to deliver synchronous social
Read MoreMeta is pivoting Horizon Worlds away from its original VR-centric metaverse vision and toward a mobile-first strategy, “explicitly separating” its Quest VR platform from the virtual world. TechCrunch reports: By going mobile-first, Horizon Worlds is positioning itself to compete with popular platforms like Roblox and Fortnite. “We’re in a strong position to deliver synchronous social
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the
Read MoreTen months after Trump imposed sweeping tariffs that hurt US businesses and consumers, and hit Apple to the tune of $3.2 billion, the Supreme Court has ruled that it was done illegally. Refunds will be messy. Trump launching his tariffs in April 2205 Trump was always expected to introduce tariffs, but the extent of his
Read MoreTL;DR Samsung Galaxy phones offer granular connectivity options for multiple SIM cards internationally, but not in the US. With One UI 8.5, Samsung appears to finally be bringing these same settings to America. Users will be able to choose their SIM preference for phone calls, text messages, and cellular data. We are just days away
Read MoreKingston Fossil Plant, a 1.4-gigawatt coal-fired power plant located in Roane County, just outside Kingston, Tennessee on the shore of Watts Bar Lake. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration just tossed out Biden-era restrictions on mercury and other toxic pollutants from power plants. It’s repealing Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) just as electricity
Read MoreKingston Fossil Plant, a 1.4-gigawatt coal-fired power plant located in Roane County, just outside Kingston, Tennessee on the shore of Watts Bar Lake. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration just tossed out Biden-era restrictions on mercury and other toxic pollutants from power plants. It’s repealing Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) just as electricity
Read MoreCredit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Researchers have identified the first known Android malware to use generative AI during execution. The malware queries Google’s Gemini model to adapt its behavior across different Android devices. It may be a proof-of-concept version, but it signals a shift toward more dynamic AI-assisted attacks. It’s been a worrying
Read MoreCredit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Researchers have identified the first known Android malware to use generative AI during execution. The malware queries Google’s Gemini model to adapt its behavior across different Android devices. It may be a proof-of-concept version, but it signals a shift toward more dynamic AI-assisted attacks. It’s been a worrying
Read MoreAmazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour outage to one system in December as a result of its AI coding assistant Kiro’s actions, according to the Financial Times. Numerous unnamed Amazon employees told the FT that AI agent Kiro was responsible for the December incident affecting an AWS service in parts of mainland China. People familiar
Read MoreTen months after Trump imposed sweeping tariffs that hurt US businesses and consumers, and hit Apple to the tune of $2 billion, the Supreme Court has ruled that it was done illegally. Refunds will be messy. Trump launching his tariffs in April 2205 Trump was always expected to introduce tariffs, but the extent of his
Read MoreWe take a look back at the official launch last week of Ireland’s first European Space Agency ‘Phi-Lab’ – a big step in Ireland’s ambitions in space-tech development. Read more: ESA Phi-Lab at Mullingar’s IMR reflects Ireland’s growing space-tech ambitions
Read MoreFacial recognition has been a requested feature for smart glasses, but the risks are high. Whenever I write about Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, I already know the comments I’m going to get. Cool hardware, but hard pass on anything Meta makes; will wait for someone else to come along. It’s hard to imagine that sentiment
Read MoreFacial recognition has been a requested feature for smart glasses, but the risks are high. Whenever I write about Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, I already know the comments I’m going to get. Cool hardware, but hard pass on anything Meta makes; will wait for someone else to come along. It’s hard to imagine that sentiment
Read MoreCredit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working to bring Calling Cards support to Wear OS, enabling personalized, full-screen call backgrounds on smartwatches. Evidence found in the latest Google Phone beta suggests that Calling Card metadata and images will soon sync from Android phones to paired Wear OS smartwatches. While the full-screen image
Read MoreCredit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working to bring Calling Cards support to Wear OS, enabling personalized, full-screen call backgrounds on smartwatches. Evidence found in the latest Google Phone beta suggests that Calling Card metadata and images will soon sync from Android phones to paired Wear OS smartwatches. While the full-screen image
Read MorePodcast listeners seem to prefer YouTube and Spotify over Apple. Apple wants to change that. Read more: Apple takes aim at YouTube, Spotify, launches video podcasting
Read MoreA modern computer can be a great productivity tool. It can also be a great source of distractions. To solve that issue, [Quackieduckie] built the e-typer—a device for writing without distraction. [Quackieduckie] refers to the device as a “low-cost e-ink typewriter” which lays out the basic mode of operation. It consists of a 4.2 inch
Read MoreNASA has officially classified Boeing Starliner’s 2024 crewed flight as a “Type A” mishap, acknowledging serious technical failures and leadership shortcomings that nearly left astronauts unable to safely return. Administrator Jared Isaacman released (PDF) a 311-page internal report citing flawed decision-making and cultural issues, with the next Starliner flight now planned as uncrewed pending major
Read MoreAs anyone who’s made a thing knows, a lot of work goes into bringing something from idea to completion. But there’s also considerable satisfaction in the process. [Willian] recently did exactly that, and shares the joyful experience of creating a homebrew handheld game gadget from scratch. It runs a homebrewed Tetris clone (as well as
Read MoreUS President Donald Trump says he will direct US agencies, including the defence department, to “begin the process of identifying and releasing” government files on aliens and extraterrestrial life. From a report: Trump made the declaration in a post on Truth Social, after he accused Barack Obama earlier in the day of revealing classified information
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