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'Coyote vs. Acme' outperformed several other genre films released this past weekend, drawing the largest audience response among new releases. The film's box office showing stood out despite a crowded field of competing titles.
Walmart has installed 838 EV charging ports across 100 stores since launching its first company-branded charger last year, with construction underway at 100 additional locations. The retailer's network grew faster than any other charging provider except Tesla last month, and Walmart aims to expand to thousands of sites by 2030.
Match Group turned to one of its own directors, Spencer Rascoff, to take over as chief executive and steer a company turnaround. The move highlights a growing trend of boards selecting insiders already familiar with the business rather than launching external searches.
Multiple Reddit users report that Google Messages is inserting old texts from unrelated conversations into new ones, sometimes attaching them to photos or group chats and in some cases actually delivering them to unintended recipients. The bug spans both Pixel and Samsung devices, occurring regardless of whether RCS is enabled, and follows other recent Messages glitches like broken RCS delivery and duplicated threads. Google has acknowledged at least one report and passed it to its engineering team, but no fix has been announced.
The FDA has tracked over 12,800 illnesses linked to foodborne outbreaks in 2026, dwarfing the 895 cases recorded in all of 2025. Recent outbreaks include salmonella tied to jalapeños, eggs, and dog food, plus a combined E. coli and salmonella outbreak from alfalfa sprouts, following what experts call an unprecedented cyclospora outbreak from tainted lettuce that ranks as the largest since the 1990s.
Anthropic released a framework restructuring the software development lifecycle around AI coding agents, arguing that since agents made writing code fast, the bottleneck has shifted to planning, review, and verification. The playbook defines six stages—planning, design, build, deploy, and self-checking—each producing a document like intent.md, spec.md, or plan.md that feeds the next stage, with hooks preventing agents from gaming tests and CI evals treating agent configuration itself as software.
Incident responders at Sygnia say the China-linked group Fire Ant has expanded from compromising VMware hypervisors to hijacking Cisco routers, TACACS authentication servers, and Linux management hosts. Investigators found a hidden GRE tunnel on a Cisco IOS XR router that didn't match its configuration history, leading to discovery of custom malware that hides its activity from administrators and runs only during set hours. The attackers used their router access to capture network traffic and exfiltrate it to external FTP servers, then pivoted through a hidden tunnel into a Linux server to probe further into connected high-value networks, including ones tied to critical infrastructure.
An international research team published a paper in AI & Society introducing the concept of 'robotoid humanness,' arguing that frequent interaction with AI chatbots in customer service settings could push people toward more machine-like patterns of speech and behavior. The researchers describe this as a two-way process where bots increasingly mimic human traits while humans adapt to communicate in ways that are more legible to machines. The framework outlines three stages of this shift but has not yet been tested empirically.
A 22-year veteran of the productivity tools market argues that his 2019 bet on the no-code revolution only partly paid off, and now proposes a new thesis for the AI era. He contends that while AI lets anyone vibe-code small personal apps, building collaborative team software from scratch in tools like Claude Code or Codex still leaves developers stuck handling hosting, authentication, permissions and databases themselves.
Glassdoor research found that insurance claims adjusters criticize AI in their reviews 98 percent of the time, making them the most AI-averse profession tracked on the platform. Adjusters describe being handed misclassified claims and AI-generated errors, or hallucinations, that they must fix, often after passing bad information to policyholders or attorneys. One former adjuster, Ahmad Jackson, said the technology added extra work and led him to leave his company for another insurer.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul publicly responded to Cody Wilson, a leading advocate for 3D-printed firearms, saying she intends to act ahead of his efforts to spread untraceable, unregulated guns. She defended the state's strict gun laws, including background checks and registration requirements, as key to New York's low gun homicide rate.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, writing as chair of the Financial Stability Board, told G20 finance ministers that advanced AI models are gaining autonomy and threat capabilities that could destabilize markets. He flagged cyber risk tied to concentrated third-party tech providers as the most pressing danger, warning many countries lack rules to govern how such models are developed and deployed.