Dispatches from the bleeding edge of future tech — AI, neurotech, robotics, biohacking, and the machines rewriting reality.
Power & Surveillance◆ FeaturedA leak called Icepick lists names, offices and team memberships for DHS staff, down to who sits in groups tied to undercover work and face recognition. DHS wants it gone.
Power & Surveillance◆ Featured90,835 of 118,756 responses were machine-made, and nearly all said the same thing. The government caught this one. The next will be harder.
Power & SurveillanceSince October 2, both companies have been listed as 'organizers of information dissemination.' In Russia that means storing users' messages for the security services. Nobody noticed for weeks.
Artificial IntelligenceCustoms in Kuala Lumpur found $12 million in AI hardware labeled as ordinary electronics. The same day, a report said two Chinese labs trained on GPT-6 Astra's output instead.
Energy & CitiesNeighbors of Musk's gas turbine plant in Southaven, Mississippi, say the noise keeps them awake. A company subsidiary is now buying their homes, on one condition.
Power & SurveillanceThe Dutch cabinet has fixed the number of posts to lose. What AI will actually do to make that possible won't be explained until 2027.
Artificial IntelligenceGPT-6.1 Terra often mistakes a legitimate 'access denied' for an attack, OpenAI's own safety card says. Then it finds another way in.
Artificial IntelligenceFor 13 days, very long prompts sent to GLM-5.3 on Workers AI could come back carrying pieces of someone else's session. The cause was a known config mismatch and an open-source bug reported weeks before launch.