Media relations, till not very long ago, was what defined the PR process. Clients thought, with much justification, that the success of a PR agency or consultant was in direct proportion to how well acquainted they were with members of the press across the various...

Meta launched Muse: a personal AI agent that browses, fills forms, books travel, pays with a one-time Stripe card, and keeps working after you close the app. Five days later it had roughly 600,000 downloads and the No. 1 spot in the US App Store. Thirteen days after...

A new report out today from bot protection company DataDome SAS finds that malicious automated traffic grew 124% between July 2025 and June 2026, more than nine times the rate of human traffic growth — and most of the popular websites it tested could not stop a single...

Bringing “Selfie Prescriptions” to the Gulf Few modern consumer rituals remain as needlessly frustrating as buying a pair of glasses. As a four-eyed journalist, I should know. In a world where we authenticate banking transactions with facial scans and monitor vital...

SUSE has offered "voluntary separation" to eligible employees as the veteran Linux vendor reshapes its business, The Register can confirm. One source said People, Strategy and Transformation Executive Lisa Sherwell contacted them with the offer after an online company...

Article URL: https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2026/09/young-users-ditch-google-for-ai-with-unknown-consequences/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798451 Points: 8 # Comments: 5

The threat actor known as SideCopy has been observed using spear-phishing lures to target academic institutions in India, expanding their strategic focus beyond government entities. "SideCopy campaign operations typically initiate through spear-phishing campaigns that...

A vintage Unix window manager and an entire vintage UNIX operating system that uses it have received modern updates. Yes, AI helped, but we're here for it. The Commodore Amiga is one of the best-loved computers of the 1980s: The Register celebrated its 30th...

The US, Japan, Germany and Australia have published a joint report detailing the scope of North Korea’s WaterPlum campaign. The post Japan Dismantles First North Korean Laptop Farm as US and Allies Detail Wider Scheme appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Over the past three years, Ford has hired about 350 veteran engineers, some of them former employees, to find the failure points its automated quality systems and AI inspection tools were missing. It needed them because, as its vice president of vehicle hardware...

At Fast Company, we love the crinkle of paper, the feel of texture, and the smell of ink. So we brought all three to a package celebrating the future of design. Take a behind-the-scenes look at how we brought our Fall Issue to life.

Britain risks swapping its dependence on foreign technology suppliers for an even deeper reliance on a handful of AI providers, according to GOV.UK founder Mike Bracken. Bracken, who founded the Government Digital Service (GDS) and served as the UK's first Government...

[Salim Benbouziyane] shows off his TN Deck, a tiny custom cyberdeck built into an Altoids tin. It’s a skillful build that really makes the most of the available space, and includes not only screen and keyboard but also rechargeable power supply and speaker. The TN...

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Malware already running on a Mac can quietly take over Meta's Muse assistant and use the broad access its owner granted the app, security researcher Patrick Wardle has shown in a proof-of-concept released on September 21. It works by changing a hidden setting so that...

A new flaw in WordPress core let an anonymous visitor leave a comment that planted a hidden script on the page. If a logged-in administrator later opened that page, the script could run code on the site's server. WordPress fixed the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-93485 and...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a now-patched security flaw impacting Zyxel GS1900 series switches to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked...

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has outlined an ambition to expand its datacenter fleet to 20GW of capacity, and chip that will help it get there. CEO Eddie Wu announced those ambitions today at Alibaba’s Apsara conference, where he delivered a speech that likened current...

Analyst firm Gartner believes over half of VMware users will start evaluating alternative hybrid cloud platforms yet still rates the Broadcom business unit a leader in two major markets. Gartner predicted increased interest in VMware exits in its Magic Quadrant for...

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Deeptech company Morphotonics raises €40M from investors including 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, BOM, and Invest-NL.

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Here in 2026 if we need a terminal the chances are we fire one up on our computer and continue on our way without a thought. What we are doing of course is emulating the experience of earlier hardware terminals, ones with a serial port on the back, a keyboard, a...

Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/film/news/robin-williams-daughter-ai-videos-1236871568/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49795718 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

Trump has resisted calls to slow down AI development, saying that would help China catch up to U.S. companies. The post US Proposes AI Incident Alert System in Talks With China, Bessent Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.