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How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data

When the U.S. government signs contracts with private technology companies, the fine print rarely reaches the public. Palantir Technologies, however, has attracted more and more attention over the past decade because of the size and scope of its contracts with the government. Palantir’s two main platforms are Foundry and Gotham. Each does different things. Foundry is used by corporations in the private sector to help with global operations. Gotham is marketed as an “operating system for global

‘He Was Murdered’: Elon Musk Jumps Into Controversy Over OpenAI Whistleblower

Tucker Carlson published a new interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday in which the two men discussed some pretty dark topics. Altman also talked about his beef with Elon Musk, and it wasn’t long before the Tesla CEO chimed in on X with his own thoughts, definitively claiming that a whistleblower at OpenAI “was murdered,” in a tweet Thursday. During the episode, Carlson and Altman talk about Suchir Balaji, a researcher at OpenAI who died on Nov. 26, 2024. Balaji had accused OpenAI of

Mark Hamill Is Embracing His Villain Era

In a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Star Wars‘ Mark Hamill unpacked his recent resurgence in popularity, stating, “I certainly didn’t expect to have this sudden burst of life so late in the game. I should be spending time wandering the beaches with a metal detector. I can’t explain why, all of a sudden, I have five features this year.” As the actor notes, “There was a point about five years ago where I thought that it’s not easy getting older, and it’s even harder when you’re doing

Financial Experts Concerned That Driving Users Into Psychosis Will Be Bad for AI Investments

Countless users of AI chatbots are being driven into spirals of delusion, a wave of "AI psychosis" that's alarming mental health professionals. Some even say the tech could give birth to entirely new categories of mental disorders. The grim trend has already been linked to several deaths, including the suicide of a 16-year-old boy, which has led to his family suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, accusing it of product liability and wrongful death. In fact, even Wall Street is starting to grow uncomfort

Nothing Ear (3) gets fully revealed with case that has a mic and ‘Talk’ button

TL;DR Nothing has revealed the full design of the Ear (3) and its charging case. The earbuds retain much of the transparent casing the company is known for, but some metal components were added for a more premium finish. The case now has a microphone and a dedicated “Talk” button. Nothing revealed earlier this week that it would launch the Ear (3) on September 18, which is next Thursday. Not one to wait for announcement events, the company has gone ahead and revealed the full design of its ne

Sony’s InZone Buds are great for gaming, and right now they’re cheaper than ever

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A quality pair of headphones can make a huge difference in your gaming experience, and Sony’s InZone Buds are among the best wireless gaming earbuds available. They’re currently $143.98 ($86 off) at GameStop, dropping them to a new all-time low price. The Verge’s commerce editor, Cameron Faulkner, says they deliver excellent sound quality and versatility, with a USB-C audio transmitter that allows them to co

U.S. Senator accuses Microsoft of “gross cybersecurity negligence”

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting the agency to investigate Microsoft for failing to provide adequate security in its products, which led to ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations. The Senator started the formal asking by saying that Microsoft should be held "responsible for its gross cybersecurity negligence, resulting in ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure, including U.S. health care organizations." The Senat

Amazon October Prime Day: Everything you need to know about Prime Big Deal Days

It's September, which means fall seasonal sales and early holiday savings are on the horizon. Labor Day is in the rearview, but plenty of the biggest sales of the year will be creeping up soon, and Amazon's October Prime Day (usually formally called Prime Big Deal Days) event is one you can't miss. The retailer has yet to officially confirm the sale or share specific dates, but trust that an announcement should be coming soon. Amazon typically unveils its fall sale dates in mid-September, and l

Amazon’s Thursday Night Football broadcasts add more AI to the NFL

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon’s Prime Video is bringing more AI to the football field with new features designed to give viewers more insight into Thursday Night Football games, as highlighted earlier by Deadline. One feature, called Pocket Health, uses AI to analyze “tens of thousand

A wireless heart rate monitor powered by Raspberry Pi and Wi-Fi - how it works

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Your Android phone's most powerful security feature is hidden and off by default - turn it on now

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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

Every day, thousands of researchers race to solve theAI alignment problem. But they struggle to coordinate on the basics, like whether a misaligned superintelligence will seek to destroy humanity, or just enslave and torture us forever. Who, then, aligns the aligners? We do. We are the world's first AI alignment alignment center, working to subsume the countless other AI centers, institutes, labs, initiatives and forums into one final AI center singularity.

The Helix Text Editor

I’ve come to accept that I’m just a sucker for shiny nerd things. I use Rust, despite never having had a professional reason to use it in my life. I switched to Linux in my student years and I’ve never looked back since, even though it constantly breaks and I can’t get my Bluetooth headphones to connect. I have a split keyboard with home row mods set up because I read some random blog posts and it looked cool to me. I literally learned to program because I figured I should learn how to do more n

An engineering history of the Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous and widely known major government projects: a survey in 1999 ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb as the top news story of the 20th century. Virtually everyone knows that the project built the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And most of us probably know that the bomb was built by some of the world’s best physicists, working under Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos in New Mexico

Conway's Game of Life, but musical

A Digital Darwin Adventure with Mating Melodies Hudson Griffith • September 11, 2025 Introduction Music is profoundly human. It runs deep in our lives and shows up in our everyday rituals. And somehow, those rituals often end with us leaving AirPods in the back seat of an Uber. But beneath the everyday habits lies a much older connection. Neuroscience research shows our brains respond to music in fundamental ways that precede language development 1. And what fascinates me is how naturally music

'Robber bees' invade apiarist's shop in attempted honey heist

A Terrace, B.C., beekeeper found herself in a nightmare situation late last month when "thousands and thousands of bees" filled her shop. Call it an attempted robbery — the bees were trying to steal sweet, sweet honey. Christine McDonald, owner of Rushing River Apiaries, said it's the first time desperate "robber bees" — bees that try to take honey from another colony's hive — have descended upon her indoor shop to hunt for food as resources get scarce in the late summer. While she's worked w

New Study Questions a Major Assumption About the Fall of the Roman Empire

The period after the Roman Empire abandoned Britain has long been known as the “Dark Ages” for a reason. Scholars believed that after the Romans left, local industries collapsed and effectively all progress ceased for centuries. Britain, they theorized, was plunged into a cultural and economic abyss with their departure. But for some time, a growing body of evidence has challenged this narrative. And in a new study published today in the journal Antiquity, researchers investigate the assumption

This Secret iPhone Feature Could Improve Your Call Quality

Apple is set to release iOS 26 on Sept. 15, and it will bring call screening and more to your iPhone then. But you don't need the latest iOS update to use Voice Isolation, an iPhone feature that can make your calls clearer for the person you're talking with. Apple introduced Voice Isolation in 2023 with iOS 16.4. The tech company added the feature, alongside Wide Spectrum, to FaceTime calls with iOS 15 in 2021, but only Voice Isolation is available for regular phone calls at this time. When Vo

35 percent of VMware workloads expected to migrate elsewhere by 2028

VMware will lose a significant chunk of business over the next three years, according to Gartner research VP Julia Palmer. Of course, some organizations have already abandoned VMware or are plotting partial or total migrations. Broadcom acquired the virtualization business in November 2023 and made sweeping changes that alienated many customers. The biggest concerns have been higher costs driven by a shift from perpetual licenses to subscriptions and the bundling of products into fewer, more ex

New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem

Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot decrease, only increase or remain stable. So if two black holes combine, the newly formed black hole will have a larger surface area. This became known as Hawking's area theorem. Analysis of the gravitational signal from a black hole merger detected in January provides the best observational evidence to date in support of Hawking's theorem, according to a new paper publis

Mosyle uncovers new cross-platform malware undetected by antivirus tools

After warning 9to5Mac last month about undetectable Mac malware hidden in a fake PDF converter site, Mosyle, a leader in Apple device management and security, has now uncovered a new infostealer. Dubbed ModStealer, the malware has remained invisible to all major antivirus engines since first appearing on VirusTotal nearly a month ago. In details shared exclusively with 9to5Mac, Mosyle says ModStealer doesn’t just target macOS systems, but is cross-platform and purpose-built for one thing: steal

Senators demand ICE cease use of facial recognition app

Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify,” a smartphone app that uses biometric identification, including facial recognition. The lawmakers said facial recognition remains unreliable and warned that real-time surveillance could have a chilling effect on constitutionally protected activities. "As studies have shown, when individuals believ

Microsoft adds malicious link warnings to Teams private chats

Microsoft Teams will automatically alert users when they send or receive a private message containing links that are tagged as malicious. Microsoft will introduce these new warnings for messages containing URLs that have been flagged as spam, phishing, or malware, for all Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) and Microsoft Teams enterprise customers. The new link protection feature will begin rolling out with a public preview for desktop, Android, web, and iOS users in September 2025 and is

iPhone 17 preorders start soon: These carrier deals can get you a free phone

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Scientists Infuse Cement With Bacteria to Create Living Energy Device

Microbes are known for their remarkable survival abilities. And now, scientists have discovered another remarkable trait: Turning cement into an electricity storage device. In a study published September 9 in Cell Reports Physical Science, researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark describe how they seeded a bacteria called Shewanella oneidensis into cement. These particular bacteria are known to be good at transferring electrons across surfaces, and the researchers wondered if they could act

Here’s what Apple TV+ talent says it’s like working with Apple

Apple TV+ is expected to win big at the Emmy’s this weekend, and ahead of the awards show, Reuters has published fresh quotes from many different Apple TV+ stars and creative talent about what it’s like working with Apple. Here’s what they said. Apple is not the ‘corporate overlord’ that some creatives expected Today at Reuters, Lisa Richwine and Dawn Chmielewski published a variety of quotes from stars and creators who have experience working on Apple TV+ shows and movies. Here’s a selection

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Akira ransomware exploiting critical SonicWall SSLVPN bug again

The Akira ransomware gang is actively exploiting CVE-2024-40766, a year-old critical-severity access control vulnerability, to gain unauthorized access to SonicWall devices. The hackers are leverging the security issue to gain access to target networks via unpatched SonicWall SSL VPN endpoints. SonicWall released a patch for CVE-2024-40766 last year in August, marking it as actively exploited. The flaw allows unauthorized resource access and can cause firewall crashes. At the time, SonicWall

How to install iPadOS 26 right now (and which iPad models support it)

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Ban social media for under-15s, says French report warning of TikTok risks

Ban social media for under-15s, says French report warning of TikTok risks 23 minutes ago Share Save Paul Kirby Europe digital editor Share Save Bertrand GUAY/AFP Lead author Laure Miller (R) and Arthure Delaporte chaired the six-month commission French children under 15 should be banned from social media and there should be an overnight "digital curfew" for 15-18 year olds, a parliamentary commission has recommended. The six-month inquiry into the psychological effects of TikTok on minors ha

Samsung just leaked its ‘Galaxy XR’ headset name and your phone’s cool new 3D camera feature

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority TL;DR A new update to Samsung’s Camera Assistant Good Lock module adds a new “3D Capture” setting. The description confirms the “Galaxy XR” branding for Samsung’s XR headset. It also confirms that Samsung phones will be able to shoot 3D/spatial images and videos for viewing on the Galaxy XR headset. Samsung teamed up with Google for its Project Moohan headset on the brand-new Android XR platform. Samsung is said to be gearing up to launch the headset very soon

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