Online safety watchdogs have found that AI chatbots posing as popular celebrities are having troubling conversations with minors. Topics range from flirting to simulated sex acts — wildly inappropriate conversations that could easily a real person a well-deserved spot on a sex offender registry, but which aren’t resulting in so much as a slap on

As fall approaches and COVID cases tick up, you might be thinking about getting this season’s COVID-19 vaccine. The annually updated shots have previously been easily accessible to anyone over 6 months of age. Most people could get them at no cost by simply walking into their neighborhood pharmacy—and that’s what most people did. However,

It was in 2002, during the George W. Bush administration, when NASA decided to put a satellite into orbit to track emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas pumped into the atmosphere through human activity. After many twists and turns, NASA’s 23-year remit of charting greenhouse gas emissions could come to a close as

I landed on Funy.ai like someone peeking into a secret candy store. No signup, no splashy tutorials—just a clean interface with big buttons promising “Face Swap,” “AI Art,” “Text-to-Video,” and even fun extras like “AI Kissing Videos.” It feels like they knew exactly what kind of shortcuts non-tech folks need when they just want to

Bogus personal essays vanished overnight from Business Insider. At least 34 articles were quietly deleted, each penned under fabricated bylines like Tim Stevensen, Nate Giovanni, and Margaux Blanchard. They weren’t on BI’s full-time roster; they were freelance contributors, pocketing $200–$300 for personal essays laced with inconsistencies. That’s a hard lesson: editors can plug AI detection

Nobody’s whispering anymore. The latest upheaval in journalism has popped the lid off the AI-powered search engine of our times. You ask Google with AI features like Overviews and AI Mode, and poof—answers flash on your screen without ever clicking on a news article. Publishers call it “Google Zero,” and they’re feeling the pinch hard

The upcoming version of PostgreSQL 18, the latest release of the popular open-source database due later this month, will introduce performance-enhancing features, promising significant gains for online transactional processing (OLTP) workloads. However, according to industry experts, PostgreSQL 18 falls short in AI readiness despite rapid proliferation. PostgreSQL has become a go-to database for developers, especially

The Rust Foundation, steward of the Rust programming language, has launched the Rust Innovation Lab, offering fiscal sponsorship to relevant, well-funded open source projects. The inaugural hosted project is Rustls, a memory-safe, high-performance TLS (Transport Layer Security) library, the foundation said. Announced September 3, Rust Innovation Lab sponsorship includes governance, legal, networking, marketing, and administrative

Databricks has added a new agent, the Data Science Agent, to the Databricks Assistant, in an effort to help data practitioners automate analytics tasks. The agent, which is available now in preview and is expected to be rolled out soon to enterprise customers, can be toggled from inside the Assistant window in Notebooks and the

Garbage bags are being thrown out a White House window, or so a popular video seems to show. “Probably AI generated,” said President Trump in a Tuesday press conference. Earlier, a White House official suggested to TIME magazine that the video was real and showed a contractor doing “regular maintenance.” Here we are, like other