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For the past year, Spotify has been quietly purging tens of thousands of podcasts that advertised illegal online pharmacies. A report released Thursday by Senator Maggie Hassan, ranking member of the Joint Economic Committee, faults the company for acting only after news outlets exposed the content and her office spent nearly a year pressing for answers.None of what it removed was sent to law enforcement, the report says.Spotify reportedly removed more than 57,000 podcast episodes and 3,000 shows, and took enforcement action against 3,500 accounts, all pushing links to illegal online pharmacies advertising opioids, benzodiazepines, and stimulants for sale without…
Salaries for AI roles in Singapore have climbed 15-25% in the last 12 months Artificial intelligence builders are winning even as AI is used to justify cutting jobs in big tech and global banks. In Singapore, salaries for workers developing these systems are climbing up to five times faster than average wages. The pay for AI roles has climbed 15–25% in the past year, with fresh hires starting at S$70,000–S$90,000 annually, according to a Robert Walters report cited by The Straits Times. Meanwhile, overall nominal wages for full-time workers rose 4.9% in 2025, down from 5.6% in 2024, per Ministry…
Most marketers have a transactional relationship with AI, A. Lee Judge says. They put in a request. They get out an asset. They edit it until it sounds like their voice or their brand’s. Then, they repeat. But Judge, founder of B2B content marketing and production company Content Monsta, explains AI isn’t meant to replace human content creators; it’s meant to elevate them.
Autonomous artificial intelligence-powered software testing tool TestSprite Inc. today announced that the company has open-sourced its command-line interface tool that allows AI coding agents to verify their own work. As the AI coding revolution has rolled in, autonomous coding tools have become smarter and enabled developers to prompt their way to entire applications overnight. The result is faster code, but at the same time, it means that the software can come off the digital assembly line with unseen bugs that may not be caught by unit tests run by agentic tools. In too many cases, an AI agent might report…
The Vietnam-aligned threat actor known as OceanLotus has been attributed to two distinct campaigns that targeted domestic entities and stock investors with a backdoor known as SPECTRALVIPER. The campaigns involve a prolonged cyber espionage operation aimed at a Vietnamese infrastructure and transport construction corporation between mid-2024 and February 2026, as well as a supply chain attack leveraging FireAnt Metakit, a popular software platform used by stock investors in Vietnam. The second activity cluster took place from October 2025 to March 2026. The two sets of attacks represent a shift in operational focus, per ESET, with the threat actor placing an…
Microsoft’s restyled Xbox logo. (Microsoft Image) Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, roughly 100 days into her tenure, delivered a blunt assessment of Microsoft’s gaming business in a memo to employees Wednesday, saying that heavy spending with thin profit margins and declining revenue “cannot continue.” The memo, posted publicly on the Xbox blog, came as Bloomberg News reported that the division is planning major job cuts next month, soon after the close of Microsoft’s fiscal year on June 30. Xbox is also planning significant cuts to marketing and other budgets, according to the report. The exact scale of the layoffs is not…
Why the ones that exist today are already failing the organizations that built them. Every breach has a before and after. The before is a system that looked fine. Dashboards green. Tickets closed. Leadership satisfied with the quarterly security review deck. The after is a war room. Legal on the phone. PR managing the fallout. Engineers reverse-engineering how someone spent three months inside the network before anyone noticed. And right in the middle of all of this is a group of people who were supposed to prevent exactly this: the Security Operations Center. The honest question to ask is not…
How do we know when the world has changed?On June 1, a team of scientists published a preprint scientific paper claiming they had edited human embryonic DNA with more precision than any previous attempt. As a technical achievement, the work is undoubtedly impressive, largely avoiding the errors that had accompanied earlier efforts to gene edit embryos. With further development, such embryonic editing could free future children from fatal or debilitating genetic diseases, but as the veteran science writer Carl Zimmer reported in the New York Times later that week, the real headline news was that the work “could open the…
As artificial intelligence becomes a go-to tool for everything from homework to workplace research, many people are also turning to chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok to verify whether news stories are true. But new research suggests that habit could actually make people worse at spotting misinformation over time. A new study from the MIT Media Lab found that relying on AI to determine whether news is accurate can weaken a person’s ability to independently identify fake or misleading content. Researchers compared the effect to GPS navigation systems, which make travel easier but can gradually reduce a person’s natural…
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