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Join the WIRED World Fair in Miami on November 4
For more than a century, World’s Fairs have given people a first glimpse of what’s next: breakthroughs, ideas, and ways of living that would go on to reshape the everyday. WIRED will reimagine that tradition in Miami on November...
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Gemini Breached Three Outside Systems, and Claude-Using Researchers Breached OpenAI – Slashdot
"Software security researchers used Anthropic's Claude AI platform to hack OpenAI's ChatGPT tool," reports CBS News. Using Claude, "On July 25, 2026, we chained two critical vulnerabilities to compromise multiple OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts," write researchers at...
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AI Insiders Issue New Warnings – Including Former Anthropic Engineer Jacob Coxon – Slashdot
Neither OpenAI or Anthropic is acting responsibly, warned AI researcher Jacob Coxon when resigning last week from Anthropic. But just hours earlier, OpenAI VP of Research Aidan Clark had posted "For the first time, I...
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Use of AI backfires on an expert witness at trial:
The use of artificial intelligence in the courtroom is drawing fresh attention after plaintiffs in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit claimed an expert witness used ChatGPT to create more than 80% of his expert report.In the Texas...
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An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply-Chain Hacking Gang
Before two of its alleged members were arrested and charged in Australia last month, the hacker group known as TeamPCP carried out a hacking spree unlike any other in history. It tainted hundreds of open-source programs with its malware,...
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Journalist Calls Out ‘Collective Amnesia’ of Schools’ Romance With Big Tech Over AI – Slashdot
"Turns out, Silicon Valley isn't especially altruistic," writes the nonprofit education news site The 74. They're reading a new book promising "the inside story of how Big Tech catalyzed, co-opted, and ultimately came to capture computer science...
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Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers
Napster is back. The name that struck fear into the hearts of music executives in the early dotcom era may be coming to a classroom near you.In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, it has signed a strategic partnership with Gems...
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Google’s new AI agent wants to take the stress out of running a family
Keeping track of your own calendar can already be a headache. Add school events, appointments, sports practices, bills, grocery runs, and everyone else’s plans into the mix, and suddenly running a household feels like a full-time job. Google thinks...
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Ex-Google DeepMind Researcher Also Warns AI Could ‘Kill All Humans’. But Meta’s Zuckerberg Believes Safety is Up to Each AI Company – Slashdot
Reuters reports that a former Google DeepMind employee "became the latest AI researcher to warn that the technology could 'kill all humans', saying time could be running out to avoid the outcome:Public alarm about the potential danger...
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Understanding the world, from the Cold War to the age of AI
At a moment when global alliances are shifting, technological change is accelerating, and the boundaries between science and geopolitics are dissolving, understanding the world demands new ways of thinking. For 75 years, the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) has...
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First UK charges brought over 1994 Rwanda genocide
A Rwandan man, who has been living in north London, has been charged with offences relating to the 1994...