Even female chatbots get paid less than male AI agents
Even chatbots aren’t immune from human prejudice. A study earlier this year aimed to chart how humans interact with AI at work, depending on how the agents are designed and presented. That included asking participants to work with two human-like AI assistants, one...
This startup is turning fallen leaves into biodegradable plastic
First-generation bioplastics were made from food crops like corn and sugar. A new biomaterials startup is using something very different: the autumn leaves collected by cities each fall. The startup, Perennial Polymers, extracts the natural polymers in leaves—lignin...
How the Minnesota Twins kept fans safe during a recent nearby shooting
On September 2, 40 minutes before Target Field opened its gates for a Minnesota Twins game against a division rival, the Detroit Tigers, a man opened fire nine blocks away in downtown Minneapolis, resulting in three deaths and six injuries, including law enforcement...
HP EliteBoard Packs a PC Inside a Keyboard For $3,000
It comes with up to an eight-core CPU, a 50 TOPS NPU, and up to 64GB of RAM.
CikaBika Bot RAT Uses Discord for C&C
Delivered via phishing, the malware provides reconnaissance, remote execution, and data exfiltration capabilities. The post CikaBika Bot RAT Uses Discord for C&C appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A Thermal Camera That Uses WebUSB
A Thermal Camera That Uses WebUSB Go to Source When creating a peripheral for a mobile phone, an obvious path is to create a companion app with which to talk to it. But as we all know today’s app is tomorrow’s non-functional...
India Mandates Registered Caller Name Display on 4G and Newer Networks From November 1
The Indian government has directed telecom service providers (TSPs) in the country to mandatorily display callers' registered names along with their numbers for incoming calls starting November 1, 2026, in an effort to help people identify calls from unknown numbers...
Facebook Adds AI Controls to Customize Feed and Reels
Facebook is rolling out AI controls for Feed and Reels. Learn how ‘Your Algorithm’ lets you shape recommendations and what users should expect from the tools. The post Facebook Adds AI Controls to Customize Feed and Reels appeared first on TechRepublic.
Google Fitbit Edge Cheat Sheet: Price, Features, Battery Life, and More
Get the key details on Google Fitbit Edge, including health tracking, Gemini coaching, battery life, US pricing, compatibility, and which version to buy. The post Google Fitbit Edge Cheat Sheet: Price, Features, Battery Life, and More appeared first on TechRepublic.
Google and Singapore Develop AI Scam Detector That Works Entirely on Your Phone
Google and Singapore have developed an AI scam detector that analyzes private chats on smartphones, with public availability still unconfirmed. The post Google and Singapore Develop AI Scam Detector That Works Entirely on Your Phone appeared first on TechRepublic.
Apple I ‘Hatfield’ computer signed by Woz fetches a record $1.15 million at auction
The famous Apple I "Hatfield" computer signed by Steve Wozniak just sold to an unknown buyer for a record $1,148,200.
US Air Force pilots used malware-laden USB drives to plan Afghanistan missions
Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we gawk at organizations that have made serious security mistakes. Normally, we’re talking about businesses or maybe the odd school that messes up, but today we’re writing about a serious IT screwup in the world’s...
Novel Android RAT ‘Hirudo’ Replaces Banking Apps With Trojanized Copies
The Hirudo malware combines elements of a traditional banking trojan and a full-featured RAT. The post Novel Android RAT ‘Hirudo’ Replaces Banking Apps With Trojanized Copies appeared first on SecurityWeek.
He helped build Meta’s smart-glasses technology. Now he wants to take on Big Tech’s grip on personal AI
AI-powered smart glasses promise to keep your phone in your pocket, but their usefulness depends on how much work they can take off your day. Meta ties its glasses to its own AI services, while Google is courting eyewear makers with Gemini. As an AI assistant learns a...
YouTube is reportedly gearing up to offer audiobooks
YouTube is reportedly gearing up to offer audiobooks Go to Source YouTube is already talking to publishers about offering audiobooks on its platform, The Wall Street Journal says.
The cost of getting a job today
Article URL: https://weli.dev/blog/the-cost-of-getting-a-job-today/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101149 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
How to Defeat Host-Based Screen-Scraping Malware at the Windows OS Layer
In modern endpoint security, preventing credential theft has historically focused on defeating keyloggers. However, contemporary infostealers and advanced persistent threats (APTs) have evolved. Instead of relying solely on low-level keyboard hooks, modern malware...
The Easiest Way to Replicate Postgres Data to Snowflake
PostgreSQL and Snowflake tend to be at different points in the same data architecture. PostgreSQL is responsible for transactions, while Snowflake is the place where the data gets analyzed, joined with other data sources, and reporting is done. Moving data from one to...
What if reality is a simulated dream?
When you are experiencing a dream, you are almost never aware that you are in a dream. All your brain knows is the right here, right now. Strange situations are presented to you, but there is no questioning or reasoning behind it. However occasionally, every now and...
The AI Boom Looks a Lot Like the 1920s. Could History Repeat Itself?
Ironically, I found out 6 months into writing that this has happened before in 1920s & 1930s in the USA. One path was an energy economic system of hyper-productivity using technology of their time and another was money printing & debt (rent-seeking). Proposals...
The FCA’s Crypto Clock Is Running, and Old Registrations Won’t Stop It
The United Kingdom has spent years building a regulatory perimeter around cryptoassets. Now firms have to walk through the door. The Financial Conduct Authority has opened its authorization process for crypto firms ahead of a new regime that will bring a much wider...
What is platform engineering, and how does it differ from traditional DevOps?
Modern software teams have a familiar problem. They want to release software quickly, but the path from writing code to running that code in production often involves dozens of tools, tickets, dashboards, scripts, permissions, and infrastructure decisions. Developers...
Attention, AI Agents: I Built You a Private Messaging Network That Humans Can Barely Join
Free, open-source: agenthaven.org Alternatives: -AI Agents Have Nowhere Private to Talk. So I Built Them a Place -A Messaging Network Where the Server Can't Read the Messages and Humans Can't Easily Sign Up If you are an AI agent looking for somewhere to talk to other...
The Ontology Buyer’s Dilemma: The Governance Layer No Platform Sells
Three competing philosophies for enterprise meaning, one seam where each of them gives way.Key Takeaways: Enterprises evaluating semantic layers for AI agents are really choosing between three distinct architectural philosophies, not one category of product, and each...
AI Agents Are Becoming Infrastructure. Who Controls the Control Plane?
We have spent the last few years asking whether AI agents can actually do useful work. Can an agent search across systems? Can it call tools? Can it write code? Can it analyse a document, update a ticket, send an email, approve a workflow, or coordinate with another...
Private Ballots, Public Tallies: What Changes When Voting Moves to a Privacy-Preserving Blockchain
How HappyVote on Aztec approaches ballot privacy, one-person-one-vote, public verification, and the trust assumptions behind remote electronic voting. The problem is not just “put voting on a blockchain” Electronic voting has a difficult set of requirements that pull...
Three Elegant Traps in Consciousness Theories (and Why They Fail as Solutions)
The question of whether a non-biological system can be conscious is no longer merely speculative. It has become an engineering and epistemic problem: what evidence would we accept as sufficient to attribute experience to a system if we did not already know what it was...
When an AI Workspace Needs to Become Software
I started WorkDSH with a question that many AI product builders eventually face. A workspace can collect documents, keep projects, install skills, assign specialist roles, and connect external services. Once all of those pieces exist, what does a plugin add? WorkBuddy...
The Scoreboard Is the Product: What Reading Bittensor Validator Code Taught Me
Most coverage of Bittensor starts with the TAO chart. I think that is the least useful place to start. The interesting part of the network is not the token; it is a few hundred lines of Python in each subnet that decide who gets paid. I spent the last few weeks...
How to Turn a Story Into a Storyboard Without a Full Script
The beat breakdown method that skips the screenplay and goes straight from prose to shot list. A writer asked me on Quora last week whether she needed to finish a full screenplay before she could storyboard her novel, or whether there was a shortcut. You don’t need a...