You’ve seen the videos: someone wearing Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses walks into a coffee shop, glances at a stranger, and a whispered prompt pulls up that person’s LinkedIn profile, their address, their phone number. The glasses don’t blink. The stranger doesn’t know. Harvard students proved it works. Meta calls it a feature. Privacy advocates call ...
For companies building AI infrastructure, the public clash between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick isn’t Washington theater — it’s a signal that the export control regime meant to keep advanced chips from China has a single point of failure: the Commerce Secretary’s discretion. On Nov. 13, Bessent went on CNBC and ...
Google has released a new AI model called Gemini 4 Hydrogen, and most people can start using it today. It is rolling out to Google Search and to the Gemini app, including the free version. The company says it completes tasks 2.5 times faster than the model it replaces. Google introduced Gemini 4 Hydrogen on ...
SpaceX is preparing to launch its Starship rocket on its 15th test flight on Friday, with a plan to do something no orbital rocket has ever done: bring both stages back to the launch pad and catch them in mid-air. The 124-metre-tall rocket is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas ...
The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a rare nationwide ground stop at every U.S. airport on Friday afternoon, halting all departing flights after a communication failure hit multiple air traffic control centers. The advisory told operators that “all departing traffic should remain ground stopped until further notice.” Inbound international flights would be “managed on a case ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday publicly blamed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s department for failing to place Megaspeed, a China-linked data company, on the export-control blacklist, widening the public split inside the Trump administration over the Nvidia chip scandal. Megaspeed is the Singapore-based firm at the center of the affair that forced Jensen Huang to ...
Millions of people could not open their email or join a Teams meeting on Thursday and Friday after a Microsoft outage swept across at least 74 countries. Outlook, Teams and Copilot went down for offices, schools, hospitals and government departments from the Americas to Europe and Asia. Microsoft said it was working to restore services, ...
In May 2025, NPR and other public radio stations reported on the data center boom threatening rural West Virginia communities. The Tucker County Fundamental Data project has generated substantial local and regional coverage. But here’s the precision gap: Spruce Knob is not officially designated by the International Dark-Sky Association. In October 2021, the International Dark-Sky ...
Expert warns of ‘AI hacking bloodbath’ after major Binance crypto theft AI-generated deepfakes and synthetic LinkedIn personas are now weaponized recruitment tools targeting cryptocurrency developers, turning insider access into exchange breaches worth billions. A bloodbath is coming to crypto exchanges—and the weapon is artificial intelligence. North Korean-linked threat actors are weaponizing AI-generated deepfakes and synthetic ...
Americans who hold tech stocks in their 401(k) watched a brutal Friday as Intel shed nearly a third of its value in a single session. The slide was the chipmaker’s worst day since 1974, and it pulled the wider market down with it. For taxpayers, the loss was personal: the U.S. government is one of ...
