Pinterest reportedly fired two engineers after they wrote scripts to identify which coworkers were being removed from internal tools during a layoff — and then shared that list more broadly. On the surface, this is a workplace drama story. Underneath, it’s an unusually clear case study in how modern companies actually run: identity systems as […]

Senators grill Waymo and Tesla on robotaxi safety — what’s actually at stake A US Senate hearing this week put two very different visions of “self-driving” on the same stage: Waymo’s tightly geofenced robotaxi service and Tesla’s mass-market driver-assistance stack that’s sold (and updated) to hundreds of thousands of owners. Senators pressed both companies on

Walk into most museums and you’ll get the same deal: glass, labels, quiet lighting, and a strong suggestion that you should look — not touch. But human history didn’t happen in a vacuum of odorless air. Temples burned incense, workshops reeked of resins and oils, bodies were prepared with balms that were engineered to preserve

If you’ve spent the last year using AI chatbots as a kind of all-purpose assistant — to draft emails, debug code, compare products, or think through difficult decisions — you’ve probably internalized an unspoken “deal”: you give the model attention and context, and it gives you help. That deal gets more complicated when ads enter

French investigators raided X’s Paris office this week, while UK regulators escalated their scrutiny of Grok, the generative AI tool that can produce sexualised images and videos. The headlines make it sound like a single “content moderation” story. It’s broader than that. What’s unfolding is a stress test of the modern social platform stack: recommendation

SpaceX buys xAI: what Musk’s ‘super company’ means for AI, Starlink, and space-based data centers Elon Musk says SpaceX has agreed to acquire xAI, folding the Grok chatbot and its AI infrastructure into the same private company that builds rockets and runs Starlink. On paper it’s a corporate reshuffle inside Musk’s orbit; in practice it’s

When a company says “only emails and phone numbers were exposed,” it’s easy to shrug. No passwords, no credit cards — so what’s the harm? In reality, email addresses and phone numbers are two of the most powerful join keys in the modern internet. They’re the identifiers that let attackers connect your presence across services,

Why the yacht industry is trying to quit teak — and what could replace it Teak has been the marine world’s luxury default for decades: honey-brown planks on sun decks, cockpit soles, swim platforms, and the kind of interior trim that signals “superyacht” before you read the name on the stern. It’s not just fashion.

Bing delisted 1.5 million Neocities sites. Here’s why that matters for the open web Neocities is one of those rare internet services that still feels like the old web: hand-built pages, strange little fandom shrines, personal research notebooks, art experiments, and earnest “here’s what I learned” write‑ups. It’s the opposite of the templated, engagement-maximized, AI-summary-driven

From chatbots to co-workers: why the next wave of AI is about managing agents, not talking to them For the last couple of years, most people have experienced AI as a single conversational partner: you type a prompt, the model responds, and you iterate. That interaction pattern is familiar and often useful — but it