Taiwan’s interior ministry has announced a one-year ban on the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, citing over 1,700 fraud cases since 2024. In a separate move, Meta has hired Apple’s former VP of Human Interface Design, Alan Dye, and top designer Billy Sorrentino to lead design for its AI and har
Stablecoins are hitting a wall as they try to go mainstream with enterprises. The very complexity they were meant to solve is back, but now it’s scattered across a maze of crypto rails. The industry’s answer? A new kind of clearinghouse.
Apple is reportedly refusing a new Indian government order that would force it to preload the state-run Sanchar Saathi app on all iPhones sold in the country. The app, which can track lost phones via IMEI, is sparking major surveillance concerns from privacy advocates and political opponents.
The MuddyWater hacking group has deployed new custom malware, including the “MuddyViper” backdoor, in a campaign from late 2024 to mid-2025. This represents a significant evolution towards more advanced, stealth-focused tradecraft for the historically noisy threat actor.
The U.S. Department of Energy is reorganizing, launching new offices for AI/quantum and fusion. Scientists worry this comes at the expense of the agency’s foundational $8.2 billion Office of Science, which funds broad basic research.
Just when you thought polling couldn’t get any less reliable, AI enters the chat. Large language models can now convincingly impersonate human respondents, undetected, threatening the very foundation of public opinion research.
Researchers are trying to build AI consciousness from the bottom up, starting with micro-emotions and basic needs. It’s a radical departure from large language models, but skeptics say we’re just building clever feedback loops, not true feeling.
According to 9to5Mac, ChatGPT is having issues today. The web version is unresponsive for many, though the Mac app appears functional.
The role of a product manager is fundamentally shifting thanks to AI. Instead of just coordinating, they can now directly build prototypes, automate systems, and engineer feedback loops using large language models.
Amazon is launching autonomous “frontier agents” for software development, promising to handle complex, multi-day tasks. The move is part of a massive AI push at its re:Invent conference, featuring new chips and private cloud infrastructure.
