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When commercial pressure meets a voluntary promise, the promise doesn’t always win, writes cybersecurity expert Michael Adjei

Normally, the cavern is one of the darkest places on Earth, but today it is lit up for maintenance, offering us a rare chance to see inside. I peer through the hatch at Depatie as he paddles over to examine the submerged experiment. He’s inspecting a house-sized detector built to catch some of the most…

Now that LLM-generated prose is everywhere, human beings are eager for ways to sniff it out. While early tells like em-dashes and “delve” are long gone, researchers say there are still plenty of telltale habits that AI models fall back on when writing prose.

The Market Hang panel debates whether to let technology companies police themselves on AI or whether government regulation is still needed without pausing development, and what Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazzal had to say on the matter.

Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds.

Last month, Reddit signaled that there would be significant changes coming to “Old Reddit” as it continues to fight AI scraping. Now, the company says that it will soon restrict the 21-year-old desktop version of its website to “recent” users of the classic layout only.

Tired of saying “Can you hear me?” or “Hello?” too many times on calls? Then you’ll be glad to hear that, with a few quick tweaks and not-so-hidden settings, you can significantly improve the sound quality of calls on your Android phone.

In a widely expected move, Volkswagen announced Monday that it will replace the recently retired ID.4 crossover with the upcoming ID.Tiguan. The decision is an acknowledgment by the German automaker that its more recognizable nameplates like Tiguan are likely an easier sell with consumers, especially when it comes to EVs. When it lands in Europe…

You might not have thought much about configuring your router beyond the initial setup, as long as your Wi-Fi isn’t too slow and works properly. But since the router is the gatekeeper between traffic on your network and the entire internet, it’s important to keep it as secure as possible. Some default settings aren’t the…

Big Tech is preparing to spend huge amounts on AI. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle are expected to spend about $800 billion on capital expenditure this year. Capital expenditure, or capex, is money companies spend on things such as data centres, chips and other infrastructure.