Paris Marx’s new book couldn’t have landed at a better time. The longtime critic of Big Tech and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us…
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The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To…
Meet Mori, a Cute Robot Mushroom That Doesn’t Really Say (or Do) Anything
You’ve had a long day. You finally get home, fling the door open, plonk on the couch, and let out a big sigh. In the…
Hugging Face’s New AI Biology Model Lets You Chat With DNA
The AI platform Hugging Face on Thursday released a new open-source model for understanding DNA that can run locally on a laptop. Developed in collaboration…
Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched
The internet’s mad scramble on Wednesday to patch a pair of critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a widely used web scripting language, was already too late…
Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Stay in California Despite Billionaires’ Tax Ballot Measure
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to keep living in Silicon Valley for eight years, potentially exposing himself to billions of dollars in one-time taxes…
This Startup Is All In on Recursive Self-Improvement. Its Latest Model Is Scary Good
For the past few days I’ve been testing an impressive open-weight AI coding model called Flint. It suggests that fully recursive self-improvement, or RSI—an exciting…
Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers
Jensen Huang outlined his vision of Europe’s future at Nvidia’s global conference in Berlin on Wednesday. It consists of robotics, AI agents, and modular data…
‘This Is Not A Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire
Internet security and web administration teams around the world are scrambling to prevent widespread disaster. On Wednesday, the developers behind the much-used PHP programming language…