A senior Justice Department prosecutor in Virginia has been fired over unwillingness to take on the prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, sources said....
"Will there be uncertainty? Will there be economic challenges? Of course," said Sen. Ted Cruz. AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr. The debate over whether we're in an AI bubble continues to rage. That de...
Germany still leans on fax machines and paperwork for basic public services. How can a nation of tech pioneers be so slow to adopt digital government?...
Magic: The Gathering had some great sets in 2025, but it also showed Wizards of the Coast perhaps straying a little too far from what makes the long-running card game special. That’s not to say Univer...
The Senate Banking Committee will vote on its crypto market structure bill next week, even as Democrats and Republicans still appear far apart on major sticking points....
Only three CBDCs have been successfully launched around the world so far, in Nigeria, the Bahamas, and Jamaica, although many jurisdictions are considering it as an option....
A ratings board leak has detailed Life is Strange: Reunion, a new game in the narrative adventure series that focuses on the return of fan-favorite character Chloe. Details of Life is Strange: Reunion...
Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi predicts Big Tech and Fortune 100 companies will start building in crypto in 2026, but that corporate L1s will fail to challenge Ethereum and Solana....
These next few months of winter are a great time to settle in with big games until spring arrives. Recently, Amazon's been offering some great discounts on a variety of options to help you stock up yo...
Afghanistan's female footballers have been fighting in exile to get back to playing internationally for years. Earlier this year, their moment arrived, but their mission is far from complete....
Got me all twisted up. At CES 2026, Lenovo is announcing a new ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist laptop. Once a concept , the 14-inch thin-and-light sports a motorized pivoting hinge, allowing it to twi...
a16z raised over 18% of all venture capital in 2025 with a goal of "giving everybody a shot." What does that mean exactly?...
Google turned up the heat in the AI shopping wars this weekend, announcing plans to turn Gemini into a merchant and launching an open-source standard built together with major retailers including Shop...
The move comes after the bot was found to be generating explicit images of women and children, without consent, on Elon Musk's X....
A fun game for playing moral dilemmas with friends. I gave 12 AI agents zodiac personalities (not that I believe in them) using the same LLM with different personality prompts. Comments URL: https://n...
Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560445 Points: 14 # Comments: 0...
The launch of an AI image editing feature on xAI’s Grok has caused chaos on X after it was used to generate a flood of non-consensual sexualized deepfakes. As Hayden Field wrote , “screenshots s...
Google is announcing a new AI Inbox view for Gmail that, instead of presenting your emails in a traditional list, uses AI to offer personalized to-dos and summaries of topics you might want to follow ...
Claude maker Anthropic is aiming to nearly double its valuation to $350 billion, with The Wall Street Journal reporting a planned $10 billion raise....
The personal computer has remained surprisingly resilient to change over the past 15 years. Apple promised a "post-PC" era with the iPad in 2010 and failed to deliver one. Smartphones even overtook la...