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- How Electric Vehicles Are Targeted by the Republican Policy Bill
The measure, passed by the House, would roll back incentives for people to buy electric vehicles and for automakers to make them in the U.S. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago - Adidas says customer data stolen in cyber attack
The sportswear giant says criminals accessed its systems through a "third-party customer service provider." ...[TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago - What Are People Still Doing on X?
This has been a banner month for X. Last week, the social network’s built-in chatbot, Grok, became strangely obsessed with false claims about “white genocide” in South Africa—allegedly because someone made an “unauthorized modification” to its code at 3:15 in the morning. The week prior, Ye (formerly Kanye West) released a single called “Heil Hitler” on the platform. The chorus includes the line “Heil Hitler, they don’t understand the things I say on Twitter.” West has frequently posted anti-Semitic rants on the platform and, at one point back in February, said he identified as a Nazi. (Yesterday on X, West said he was “done with antisemitism,” though he has made such apologies before; in any case, the single has already been viewed tens of millions of times on X.)These incidents feel all too natural for Elon Musk’s social network. Even without knowing the precise technical reason Grok decided to do… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.7 days ago - Google’s New AI Puts Breasts on Minors—And J. D. VanceSorry to tell you this, but Google’s new AI shopping tool appears eager to give J. D. Vance breasts. Allow us to explain.This week, at its annual software conference, Google released an AI tool called Try It On, which acts as a virtual dressing room: Upload images of yourself while shopping for clothes online, and Google will show you what you might look like in a selected garment. Curious to play around with the tool, we began uploading images of famous men—Vance, Sam Altman, Abraham Lincoln, Michelangelo’s David, Pope Leo XIV—and dressed them in linen shirts and three-piece suits. Some looked almost dapper. But when we tested a number of articles designed for women on these famous men, the tool quickly adapted: Whether it was a mesh shirt, a low-cut top, or even just a T-shirt, Google’s AI rapidly spun up images of the vice president, the CEO of OpenAI,… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- How to Disappear
You could easily mistake Alec Harris for a spy or an escaped prisoner, given all of the tradecraft he devotes to being unfindable. Mail addressed to him goes to a UPS Store. To buy things online, he uses a YubiKey, a small piece of hardware resembling a thumb drive, to open Bitwarden, a password manager that stores his hundreds of unique, long, random passwords. Then he logs in to Privacy.com, a subscription service that lets him open virtual debit cards under as many different names as he wishes; Harris has 191 cards at this point, each specific to a single vendor but all linked to the same bank account. This isolates risk: If any vendor is breached, whatever information it has about him won’t be exploitable anywhere else.Harris has likewise strictly limited access to his work and personal phone numbers by associating his main phone with up to 10 different… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - OpenAI’s Ambitions Just Became Crystal ClearSam Altman is done with keyboards and screens. All that swiping and typing and scrolling—too much potential friction between you and ChatGPT.Earlier today, OpenAI announced its intentions to solve this apparent problem. The company is partnering with Jony Ive, the longtime head of design at Apple, who did pioneering work on products such as the iMac G3, the iPod, and, most famously, the iPhone. Together, Altman and Ive say they want to create hardware built specifically for AI software. Everyone, Altman suggested in a highly produced announcement video, could soon have access to a “team of geniuses”—presumably, ChatGPT-style assistants—on a “family of devices.” Such technology “deserves something much better” than today’s laptops, he argued. What that will look like, exactly, he didn’t say, and OpenAI declined my request for comment. But the firm will pay roughly $5 billion to acquire Io, Ive’s start-up, to figure that “something much better” out… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
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