The 'Dark Enlightenment' pundit published a transcript he says shows how easily a chatbot can be steered into echoing a user’s ideology....
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath , a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Elon Musk first sued OpenAI in February 2024. Despite ...
Last year, Nova Launcher founder and sole developer Kevin Barry announced he had left Branch Metrics, Nova's parent company at the time - which followed an announcement from 2024 that nearly everyone ...
The most interesting story at this year's CES was just a little tiny bundle of technology. One way to look at Lego's new Smart Brick is as something like a Raspberry Pi, an endlessly remixable gizmo w...
PlayStation is no stranger to releasing unique colors for its accessories throughout its over 30-year history. Since the PS5 launched in November 2020, PlayStation has expanded the DualSense controlle...
The Tesla board has proposed a pay package for Elon Musk that could be worth up to $1 trillion. ALLISON ROBBERT/Getty Images; Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI This post originally appeared in the Business In...
Hi HN, In most codebases I’ve worked on, temporary hacks (“TODO: remove later”, “just for this release”) slowly become permanent. Nobody remembers why they exist, but they keep shipping to production....
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images Polymarket partnered with the Golden Globes, showing viewers betting odds for each award category. Ultimately, Poly...
Hi HN, When working with BGP data, I kept running into the same friction: it’s easy to get raw data, but surprisingly hard to browse networks over time — especially by when they appeared, where they o...
This week, Nintendo finally removed an infamous, adults only-themed island from Animal Crossing: New Horizons . Existing since 2020, the suggestive fan creation was almost as old as the game, and gain...
Hey HN! We’re Will and Jorge, and we’ve built LAD (Language-Aided Design), a SolidWorks add-in that uses LLMs to create sketches, features, assemblies, and macros from conversational inputs ( https://...
Two open letters are directed at Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. | Photo: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images X is awash with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes that blatantly violate Apple's ...
Verizon was down for tens of thousands of customers for most of the day on January 14, 2026. Paul Squire/Business Insider Over 170,000 Verizon customers reported a service outage on Wednesday. The out...
The chief developer behind the saving of Hytale has celebrated the game’s early access launch, declaring: “I have no regrets.” Hypixel Studios founder Simon Collins-Laflamme issued an update a week on...
The Federal Trade Commission will appeal its loss in a landmark antitrust case against Meta, the agency announced Tuesday. US District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled in November that the government ...
Mercedes-Benz is pausing the roll-out of Drive Pilot, an "eyes off" conditionally automated driving feature that was available in Europe and the US . As first reported by German publication Handelsbla...
The Acura RDX will be the automaker’s first two-motor hybrid. | Image: Honda Honda announced that the next-generation Acura RDX will be the brand's first SUV to feature a two-motor hybrid system. Whil...
OpenAI is expanding a low-cost subscription tier called ChatGPT Go to the US and the rest of the world. Go was released in India in August and later became available in another 170 countries prior to ...
The United Kingdom has walked back plans to make its upcoming digital ID scheme a mandatory requirement for working adults. While the UK government remains "committed to mandatory digital right-to-wor...
Sid Meier's Civilization VII is headed to the Apple Arcade on February 5th, allowing you to play the strategy game across your iPhone, iPad, or Mac through the company's $6.99 / month subscription. Th...