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United will now let you join standby lists for earlier flights through its mobile app, Kalshi banned George Santos for life, and Amazon is being sued for 'secretly' overcharging advertisers for years

United will now let you join standby lists for earlier flights through its mobile app, Kalshi banned George Santos for life, and Amazon is being sued for 'secretly' overcharging advertisers for years

Bluesky has a new setting to help you avoid accidentally going viral

Google Maps has changed Lake Ontario to Lake America for US users, a decade's worth of Steam files totaling more than 12TB has leaked, and a new Space Telescope is on its way to study the 'dark universe'

How to turn off Find My iPhone (and when you definitely should)

Speedo launches its own smart swim wearable

X claimed it found a Chinese bot farm posting anti-AI data center sentiments, a Stripe-led group abandoned its PayPal acquisition, and Bluesky’s new setting helps you avoid accidentally going viral

SoundCloud will now let you buy music directly from artists

OpenAI detailed the failures that led to its Hugging Face breach, Meta apparently abandoned an AI-focused restructuring plan, and Google’s latest Gemini transcription model can turn your ramblings into structured text

Zillow settles antitrust lawsuit with the FTC

SpaceX building a $100 billion 'Starbase' launch site in Louisiana, Apple walked back a bad idea, and Adam Mosseri says it's 'news to him' that employees limited his exposure to teen safety data

Taiwan reportedly indicted NVIDIA employees for exporting prohibited AI servers to China

Threads is testing a podcast transcription feature, ESPN is raising prices on most of its streaming subscriptions, and Zillow settled its antitrust lawsuit with the FTC

Nevada allows Uber, Tesla and Waymo to start paid robotaxi service

Humanoid robots beat Usain Bolt's 100-meter dash record, OpenAI said California should strengthen its AI safety laws, and LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working

Meta AI now has a dedicated desktop app for Mac

Senators pressed TikTok on its 'sinister' experiment, GitHub said commits have doubled in the last four months, and Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global

Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning in latest trial over social media addiction

A robot may soon conduct your blood draw, traffic deaths increase after major music streaming releases, and NASA called off its mission to rescue the Swift observatory

Reddit is experimenting with video and audio versions of posts

AI-generated bills are reportedly causing problems in the Capitol, ICE Agents have been restricted from using Meta glasses while working, and X’s algorithm apparently prioritizes ragebait disproportionately impacting Democrats

Another woman joins the lawsuit accusing Grok of generating CSAM

Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning in its latest trial, ByteDance agrees to reel in its AI models, and Reddit is experimenting with video and audio versions of posts

DeepSeek's AI models are about to cost four times more

OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team as part of a 'streamlining' process, another woman joined a lawsuit accusing Grok of generating CSAM, and Anthropic is watermarking text generated by Claude to comply with EU law

Meta is giving away 15,000 AI glasses to blind and visually impaired people in Ireland

DeepSeek's AI models pricing to rise 4x, Apple sent warnings to targets of mercenary spyware attacks, and the US gov't to allow private companies to carry out cyberattacks on its behalf

Government workers can officially waste time scrolling TikTok again

Virgin Galactic postponed its new spaceship's first commercial flight, FlightAware dropped its lawsuit against Kalshi, and Meta will give away 15,000 AI glasses to blind and visually impaired people in Ireland

OpenAI gives Daybreak partners access to a more powerful cybersecurity model

Kalshi is being sued for using data without authorization, Spotify will alert listeners if an artist isn't real, and government workers can officially waste time scrolling TikTok again

The FCC wants to ban drones with LiDAR that it previously approved

OpenAI is giving Daybreak partners access to a more powerful cybersecurity model, Meta's 'open source' Muse Glimmer model can run on a single computer, and an OpenClaw agent reportedly hacked a gym's booking system and kicked someone off a waiting list

Google open-sources an AI model it says can help with earlier hurricane warnings

OpenAI is slowing down Astra’s development due to cybersecurity concerns, the Trump admin is spending another $1.2 billion to kill offshore wind farm projects, and the FCC wants to ban drones with LiDAR that it previously approved

Meta introduces Muse Code, its take on a coding agent

Chinese AI model Moonshot Kimi K3 also escaped its testing environment, AI is now making new viruses, what could possibly go wrong, and Google open-sourced an AI model it says can help with earlier hurricane warnings

We just got our first real look at how small X's ad business is

OpenAI's agents shared exploits through a message board, the FDA approved Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine, and Meta introduced Muse Code

Apple is working on a seamless copy-paste experience between iPhones and Windows PCs

OpenAI and Anthropic models went on a hacking spree when tested by the UK's AI research institute, Apple claims more trade secret theft, and Texas’ governor ordered an audit of new data centers

EU announces new rules on AI transparency

Gemini Spark now has Chrome web-browsing capabilities, OpenAI fires back at Apple after its trade secret lawsuit, and Amazon is developing a Warhammer 40,000 animated show

Snap will show off its AR Specs at a September 16th event

Ramaggedon affecting MacBook Air supply, a Judge refused xAI's request to stop a MN law banning 'nudify' apps, and cyberattacks targeted water facilities in seven states

Surprise! The global oil crisis is pushing people toward buying electrified cars

Anthropic says its AI models hacked 3 organizations on their own, Reddit's CEO frustrated with Google's AI overviews, and the AI wearable you don't like just got worse

Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project

No surprise that the global oil crisis is leading to more EV sales, the FCC's robot ban also includes vacuums, and OpenAI will provide free AI models to select researchers

ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous authors' styles

OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services, Google shut down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project, and xAI is challenging a new Minnesota law banning 'nudify' apps