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Four years ago, I moved back to Texas from California. After two weeks of living here, I realized we were going to have to do something about the mosquitoes. In the 25 years I’d been gone, they seemed to have grown larger, more intelligent, and much thirstier. My skin had become a bepoxed nightmare within days.I immediately embarked on a mission to do something, anything, about the problem, quickly resorting to paying a local company to send a guy with a pesticide-blasting cannon strapped to his back to the house once every three weeks. The cannon, used to blast all…
You can now talk with ChatGPT, Claude and more while you’re on the road. PixieMe/Shutterstock If you love using AI chatbots like ChatGPT on your phone, you’ll be pleased to know that accessing them in your car is also easy — if you have a car with Apple CarPlay. That’s thanks to an API that arrived with iOS 26.4 allowing developers to bring AI chatbots into CarPlay, with a few already available. You just need to make sure you have the latest versions of their apps installed. For safety while driving, AI tools compatible with CarPlay only work…
In May 1972, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed the agreements known as SALT I after years of negotiations over weapons capable of destroying both countries. Even with mutual annihilation as an incentive to cooperate, neither side would accept the other’s word alone. Onsite inspections inside the Soviet Union were politically unacceptable, so the agreement relied instead on what it called “national technical means of verification”: Each side watched the other through its own technology, including reconnaissance satellites. Agreement was desirable. Verification was indispensable. That’s the distinction I keep coming back to when reading Dario Amodei’s “We Must Pace the…
There’s a frightening new digital threat that Android users should be aware of. New AI-powered malware called RatHat can automatically gain admin-level control over your Android device, stealing whatever it wants. RatHat was discovered by mobile security firm Zimperium, which notes that the program tricks people into downloading what appears to be a legitimate app, such as Google Chrome, via a fake web page that mimics the Google Play Store. Once opened, the app seemingly innocently asks for accessibility permissions, which it then uses to take over your entire device. RatHat uses the accessibility permissions users grant it to navigate…
Deterministic AI combines AI interpretation with rules-based execution. How does it benefit businesses? Let’s start from the ground up. AI has been offered the front seat. It writes the email. Reads the contract. Scores the lead. Routes the customer complaint. And, increasingly, it is being asked to make the decision too. That is where the excitement begins to lose its shine. AI is remarkably good at understanding messy inputs. But understanding something and knowing what to do next are two separate abilities. The same prompt can produce different answers. When that interpretation flows directly into a refund, a compliance check,…
The Hacker NewsSep 19, 2026Security Operations / Artificial Intelligence A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly. But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment? Mythos-class AI is compressing the time between disclosure and working exploitation, while many security programs still validate risk on weekly or quarterly cycles. The dangerous gap is no longer just technical. It is measured in time. 📅 Save Your Spot Today: How to Prove You’re Ready for Mythos-Class Attacks. Can’t join live? Register anyway. We’ll send the webinar recording after…
It is hiring across finance, sales, applied AI, marketing and research Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic will open an office in Singapore in Oct—its fifth in the Asia-Pacific region, The Business Times reported. This adds to the company’s offices in Tokyo, Bengaluru, Seoul and Sydney. The move comes as Singapore establishes itself as a “standout market” for Claude, with strong enterprise demand for its advanced large language models and AI assistants, Anthropic said in a statement on Wednesday (Sep 16). According to Anthropic’s most recent Economic Index, Singapore ranks second among 121 countries in Claude.ai usage relative to population. Usage…
Pavlo Bazilinskyy still can’t believe he was on PornHub for work. He’s an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, and has spent more than a decade researching AI-driven interactions between humans and robots. But he found himself typing “public transport” into the search bar of a very specific website’s “amateur section.” 297 hits.“People are hard to predict,” Bazilinskyy says. It’s why he researches what he does. So his prurient pursuit had a point. Robotaxis without cabbies behind the wheel have started picking up passengers in a handful of countries, including the US. Meanwhile, there’s a…
Scenes from the live GeekWire Podcast recording at Atmosphere Seattle, with Zillow Senior Vice President of Engineering Toby Roberts, Real Estate At Work host Leka Devatha, and GeekWire co-founders John Cook and Todd Bishop. (GeekWire Photos / Curt Milton) Zillow launched 20 years ago, and we’ve been covering the Seattle-based company since before it had a name. This week, we’re looking ahead to what’s next in real estate and technology. On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, recorded live at Atmosphere Seattle overlooking Lake Union, Zillow Senior Vice President of Engineering Toby Roberts joins us to talk about what AI…
As artificial intelligence agents move from experimental tools into production systems, enterprise governance is being forced to answer a harder question. It is no longer enough to know what an agent did. Organizations increasingly need to prove what the agent was authorized to do, why it was allowed to take a specific action and whether that authority remained intact as tasks moved across multiple agents and systems. That challenge is becoming more urgent as agentic systems spread across regulated enterprises, where security, auditability and sovereignty requirements can limit reliance on external software-as-a-service control planes. In the latest episode of theCUBE…