Grindr’s new Right Now feature brings a spicy live feed to the hookup app
Grindr has always excelled at helping its users find folks looking to spend some quality time together, but the hookup app is looking to speed up the “looking?” process even…
Spy-catcher saw “stupid” tech errors others made. FBI says he then made his own.
Twenty-eight-year-old Nathan Laatsch was, until yesterday, a cybersecurity employee at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He had a Top Secret clearance and worked in the Insider Threat Division. Laatsch spent…
CDC updates COVID vaccine recommendations, but not how RFK Jr. wanted
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday updated its immunization schedules for children and adults to partially reflect the abrupt changes announced by health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate…
Elon Musk departs DC with a black eye and a tattered reputation
Elon Musk appeared in the White House with a black eye he said he got from rough-housing with his young son. Elon Musk appeared alongside President Trump for a press…
Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care
The online incel (“involuntary celibate”) subculture is mostly known for its extreme rhetoric, primarily against women, sometimes erupting into violence. But a growing number of self-identified incels are using their…
Texas AG loses appeal to seize evidence for Elon Musk’s ad boycott fight
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has failed to reverse a preliminary injunction currently blocking him from probing Media Matters for America (MMFA) in defense of Elon Musk’s social media platform…
Want a humanoid, open source robot for just $3,000? Hugging Face is on it.
Hugging Face is best known as a platform for machine learning and AI development, but it has also been dabbling in the world of robotics. This week, the company revealed…
Nebraska to adopt law aimed at curbing kids’ time online
Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen has signed a bill that cracks down on social platforms’ features that could keep kids online for longer. Under the Age-Appropriate Online Design Code Act (LB504),…
Microsoft releases a bold new update for Notepad
Microsoft is adding text formatting to its Windows Notepad app. The significant Notepad update is available for Canary and Dev Channel testers on Windows 11, and introduces bold and italic…
Meta Losing and Restructuring AI Team While AI Chief Disses LLMs
Meta is ranked 23rd on the LLM leaderboards and is also behind several Chinese open source LLM models. Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun explains why bigger models and more…