The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess
It’s been less than a week since the launch of OpenAI’s new GPT-5 AI model, and the rollout hasn’t been a smooth one. So far, the release sparked one of…
High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups
A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups. The attacks backdoor computers that open malicious archives attached to phishing…
Why False Equivalence Is One Of Democracy’s Most Dangerous Lies
There’s a trick at the center of American political discourse—so deeply embedded that even well-meaning people don’t realize they’re performing it. It goes like this: if you’re a fair-minded individual,…
Reddit blocks Internet Archive to end sneaky AI scraping
Reddit is now blocking the Internet Archive (IA) from indexing popular Reddit threads after allegedly catching sneaky AI firms—restricted from scraping Reddit—instead simply scraping data from IA’s archived content. Where…
AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years
After 34 years of connecting Americans to the Internet through phone lines, AOL recently announced it is shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025. The announcement marks…
Boar’s Head to reopen plant as mold and funky meat problems pop up elsewhere
Boar’s Head plans to reopen the Jarratt, Virginia, facility at the center of a deadly Listeria outbreak last year despite federal inspections continuing to find sanitation violations at three of…
RFK Jr. posted fishing pics as CDC reeled from shooting linked to vaccine disinfo
Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta are reeling from a deadly shooting that unfolded Friday evening. The shooting left one local police officer dead,…
LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find
In recent months, the AI industry has started moving toward so-called simulated reasoning models that use a “chain of thought” process to work through tricky problems in multiple logical steps.…
Why does Jeff Bezos keep buying launches from Elon Musk?
Early Monday morning, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from its original launch site in Florida. Remarkably, it was SpaceX’s 100th launch of the year. Perhaps even more notable was…
Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs
Wikipedia’s parent organization lost a challenge to the UK Online Safety Act but can bring another case if the government tries to force it to verify the identity of Wikipedia…