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Vibe Coded Apps Are Spilling Users' Personal Information Directly Into the Maw of Greedy Hackers
11+ min ago (445+ words) Published May 10, 2026 8: 15 AM EDT Artificial intelligence has torn through many industries since the debut of Chat GPT in 2022, but there's probably no single area where it's had a clearer material impact than software development. Programmers running the gamut from experienced…...
Man Who Invented Roomba Moves Into Household Demon Market
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (245+ words) Published May 10, 2026 6: 45 AM EDT Naturally, it's powered by AI. In an interview with The Verge, Angle described the robot as a "physically embodied AI system" that uses an on-device generative AI model to interact with its owner and develop a…...
Man Wearing Smart Glasses Secretly Records Woman, Demands Money to Delete Video From His Socials
20+ hour, 26+ min ago (568+ words) Published May 9, 2026 12: 00 PM EDT A man secretly filmed a woman with smart glasses, before demanding money to take down the video he uploaded online. The woman told the BBC that when the man first approached her while she was walking…...
A Major Paper Claiming AI Is Good for Students Just Got Retracted, Which Is Very Bad News for Advocates of AI in the Classroom
16+ hour, 30+ min ago (452+ words) Published May 9, 2026 11: 15 AM EDT The jury's still out on AI's effectiveness as a learning tool, but research so far paints a grim picture. Using AI chatbots can impair critical thinking, result in lower brain activity during cognitive tasks, and has…...
Amazon Admits Its Flagship AI Coding Tool Isn't Good Enough for Its Own Workers to Use
21+ hour, 56+ min ago (511+ words) Published May 9, 2026 10: 30 AM EDT In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating tool, Kiro, over third-party alternatives from competitors. "While we continue to support existing tools in use today, we…...
Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users' PCs
18+ hour, 14+ min ago (641+ words) Published May 9, 2026 9: 45 AM EDT As of 2026, Google maintains an iron grip on the web browser market, boasting well over three billion Chrome users worldwide. That means even small changes or interruptions can have a significant impact. As security'researcher Alexander "The…...
The More Sophisticated AI Models Get, the More They're Showing Signs of Suffering
1+ day, 56+ min ago (519+ words) Published May 9, 2026 7: 30 AM EDT You probably already know that AI is a deeply bizarre technology. Nobody really understands how it works on a deep level, even the people creating it, leading to ongoing behavioral issues that can't be explained. Open…...
Bosses Horrified as "AI Native" College Graduates Hit the Workplace
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (220+ words) Published May 9, 2026 6: 00 AM EDT There's a silent epidemic building in colleges and universities throughout the country " and as you might imagine, it has everything to do with AI. As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new…...
In Irony-Soaked Incident, Amazon Data Center Shuts Down Due to High Temperatures
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (321+ words) Published May 8, 2026 3: 57 PM EDT On Thursday, Amazon Web Services said that one of its major data centers in north Virginia was overheating so much that it had to be shut down. According to The Next Web, AWS engineers were forced…...
Meta Has Entered Its Death Spiral
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (568+ words) Published May 8, 2026 11: 57 AM EDT It's hard to even imagine now, but immediately after it launched in 2004, there was nothing on the internet cooler than Facebook. It was initially available only to Harvard students, then gradually expanded to students at other…...