Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’
Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting…
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Intel Officials Predict the Pentagon’s Bill for the Iran War Will Exceed $100 Billion
The Trump administration has not disclosed its cost estimates for the Iran war.
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FCC plans to clear the way for more media consolidation
The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month on whether a single company can own broadcast stations that…
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xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’
The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate…
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Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches
HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.
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Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex
OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a…
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AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs
This weekend, cinephiles across the world will march to their local theaters to feast their eyes on Christopher Nolan's…
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Roblox is shutting down its video chat service
Roblox will be shutting down Roblox Connect, its video calling service introduced in 2023. Roblox Connect let you video…
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Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise
Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with…
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Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model
Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio. It could help Thinking…
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SpaceX slips below its $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch
The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises…
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Something’s glowing on the Pixel 11’s camera bar
A new teaser for Google's upcoming Pixel 11 lineup reveals that the phones will feature some kind of glowing orb on the…
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AI Isn’t Smarter Than a Baby—Yet
Babies are tremendous learning machines, and key advances for AI may soon be found in the architecture of their little…
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Lucid’s bankruptcy rumor is a bad sign for the EV future
Lucid Motors found itself in a tough bind this week, fending off bankruptcy rumors and watching its stock price plunge…
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Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer
Suno data obtained in a hacking incident has exposed that the AI music generator was trained by scraping millions of…
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Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of…
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TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915004…
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Netflix tries to recapture Stranger Things magic with nostalgic re-release
Netflix just can't let Stranger Things go. Since the final episode aired on New Year's Eve there's been a…
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Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations
Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time…
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Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data
The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.
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SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/3a023b95-66c3-41e1-b0ce-df752a499541 Comments URL:…
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JBL’s Flip 7 speaker is small, versatile, and 40 percent off
Sure, Bluetooth speakers are awesome to have for picturesque beach trips, camping weekends, and other outdoor…
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Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI
Apple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apple’s AI services through a partnership with Alibaba.…
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Daylight saving time is on track to become permanent in the US
The US is one step closer to observing daylight saving time year-round. On Tuesday, the House advanced the Sunshine…