Spotify is rolling out some new updates for book lovers, expanding audiobook listening features and allowing users to buy physical publications through the platform. Readers in the US and UK can now purchase printed books via a new integration with Bookshop.org on the Android Spotify app, with support for iOS users expected to arrive next…
In a letter obtained by NBC News, Apple told US senators it “contacted the teams behind both X and Grok after it received complaints and saw news coverage of the scandal” and demanded that the developers “create a plan to improve content moderation.” At the time, xAI’s chatbot Grok was freely accessible on X and…
Britain has spent years wiring its public sector into US Big Tech, and a new report says that dependence could quickly become a national security headache. The warning comes from Open Rights Group, whose latest report, “Tech Giants and Giant Slayers,” argues that the UK has let a small group of American megacorps entrench themselves…
Two rival ransomware gangs have locked horns after 0APT threatened to expose people affiliated with Krybit. Dark web watchers spotted the move on Sunday, though 0APT’s motive for extorting a fellow criminal outfit remains unclear. The notion seems even more bizarre given that 0APT hypocritically described Krybit in its leak blog post as a ransomware…
Brit boffins have a £2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) budget for fusion power research and development, and the government agency leading the effort has published a roadmap of targets to hit before the decade is out. The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) isn’t promising a working commercial fusion reactor by 2030, though it does want key…
Waymo has started letting its software take the wheel on London streets, with trained specialists on standby as it gradually accelerates toward a fully driverless ride-hailing launch. The Alphabet-owned biz began putting vehicles on London streets in October, initially with a human driver in control, as it started teaching its software how to cope with…
Amazon has agreed to pay more than $11.5 billion to expand its satellite constellation by about two dozen units with the acquisition of Globalstar. But it’s more about the underlying technology that Amazon hopes will help it catch Elon Musk’s Starlink. The Bezos behemoth announced its purchase of venerable mobile satellite services (MSS) operator Globalstar…
Exclusive Security researchers hijacked three popular AI agents that integrate with GitHub Actions by using a new type of prompt injection attack to steal API keys and access tokens, and the vendors who run agents didn’t disclose the problem. The researchers targeted Anthropic’s Claude Code Security Review, Google’s Gemini CLI Action, and Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot,…
A startup called Orbital has revealed a plan to build a 10,000-satellite neocloud in space – if Elon Musk delivers on his ambitious plans to increase launch capacity and reduce costs. Speaking with The Register, Orbital CEO Euwyn Poon admitted orbital datacenters aren’t economically feasible today. “The constellation approach to run AI inference makes sense,…
Opinion Could the recent death of Meta’s unloved and unused Horizon Worlds signal the demise of the wider metaverse? Reading Neal Stephenson’s post on the topic, you might think so. After all, if the man who coined the term “metaverse” reckons it’s dead and buried, who are we to argue? As someone who has a…