"Crypto is dead": Y Combinator's 2025 startup requests spark fears for future of blockchain
"Anyone notice a trend here? "IT’S ALL F***ING OVER."
Jasper Hamill
Robots
Elon Musk shares "dangerous" Optimus plans, reveals "perverse" Telsa self-driving feature
Billionaire has plans to make Tesla robots' working life even more "hardcore" than his own 100-hour weeks.
A few lines of Linux code could cut data centre emissions by 30%, academics claim
"It’s like rearranging the pipeline at a manufacturing plant so you don’t have people running around all the time.”
AI
AI taskers claim "break the model" testing gave them PTSD
Human GenAI trainers expected to "immerse themselves in deeply unsettling, often traumatic, scenarios".
AI
New open weight standard untethers the subconscious of AI
Framework enables the sharing of deep parameters which guide a model's behaviour and shape its responses.
Security
Opengrep vs Semgrep: Rival security firms close ranks to fork open source code analysis tool
Competitors launch "coordinated industry-wide stand against commercialisation and single vendor interest".
Security
Cyber shadows: A new name for an emerging AI ecosystem threat
GenAI is amplifying threats and exposing hidden dangers, increasing organisational and systemic risk.
Existential Risk
OpenAI rumours go nuclear: Trump, p(doom) and the truth about superintelligence
Is the world about to end? Are billions of people going to be fired? Or is OpenAI just planning to release a slightly better LLM?
Crime
Will the Ministry of Justice finally admit computers are unreliable witnesses?
"A blanket ‘no questions asked’ acceptance of the accuracy of digital evidence can have a devastating impact on people’s lives."
AI
Meet the Claude Boys: Could a meme about AI-obsessed teens become reality?
"The newest thing at my school is a flock of self-proclaimed 'Claude Boys' who have Al on hand at all times."
Nvidia upgrades GenAI guardrails to control toxic or disloyal "knowledge robots"
GPU titan releases new tools to help businesses keep their know-bots from going rogue and causing catastrophic brand damage.
Security
Los Angeles wildfire phishing scammers use "cancer-stricken dogs" to defraud good Samaritans
"Natural disasters like the LA fires of 2025 let cybercriminals exploit the vulnerabilities of human psychology"