Tech Critics Declare War On AI
In 2025, columnist Drew Magary and a chorus of critics call to 'declare war on AI', arguing market forces and Big Tech have forced overhyped AI into consumer products and critical systems. They cite hallucinations,…
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In 2025, columnist Drew Magary and a chorus of critics call to 'declare war on AI', arguing market forces and Big Tech have forced overhyped AI into consumer products and critical systems. They cite hallucinations,…
The Stargate Project, announced January 2025, aims to build a US network of AI data centers backed by SoftBank, Oracle, Microsoft and OpenAI, with up to $500 billion planned over four years. Recent funding…
Red Hat, in collaboration with IBM Research, is developing an AI-driven Risk Investigation Agent for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security to deliver deployment-aware risk analysis for Kubernetes. The agent aggregates…
Onlook, an open-source collaborative canvas and YC-backed startup that reached #1 on Hacker News and amassed over 23,000 GitHub stars, is hiring its first Founding Engineers in the U.S. The role seeks autonomous…
TDWI will host an Expert Panel webinar on December 5, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET featuring Fern Halper with guests Dave Mariani, Triveni Gandhi, and Aymen Ben Azouz. The session outlines centralized data,…
A CDC advisory panel voted on Thursday to remove the longstanding universal recommendation to give U.S. infants a hepatitis B vaccine dose at birth, recommending shared clinical decision-making for infants of mothers…
Pathea Games is developing The God Slayer, a mature open-world steampunk action RPG built on Unreal Engine 5, the studio announced in an interview with founder Zifei Wu. Developers say they currently limit generative-AI…
DeepSeek released two open-weight MIT-licensed models, DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, today; both are 685B-parameter, 690GB checkpoints and accompanied by a technical report. V3.2 runs on chat.deepseek.com,…
Bethesda director Todd Howard told Eurogamer at a Fallout season two event this week that he views AI "as a tool" for speeding iterations while insisting human creative intention must be preserved. He spoke as industry…
Dozens of mail and package drivers in Central Florida who voted to unionize with Teamsters Local 385 in September approved their first three-year contract with MBM Logistics, the union said. The agreement includes a…
Block says its open-source AI agent framework goose now serves as an internal orchestration layer, with roughly 60% of employees (about 6,000 people) using it weekly to connect MCP-powered extensions like Slack,…
The article argues that The Chair Company (a TV series) accurately depicts mundane but skilled online investigative work through protagonist Ron Trosper’s forensic web-surfing—especially his use of site footers,…
At AWS re:Invent in San Jose, NetApp announced that Amazon S3 Access Points for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP let AWS AI, analytics services and ISV apps access FSx file data via the S3 API without moving data. NetApp…
Goldman Sachs' top strategist said the real AI bubble is forming in private markets rather than public stocks, and commented that private AI firms are experiencing notable trends. The full article is unavailable and…
Korean audiences are turning away from formulaic genre films and spectacle, gravitating toward human-centered stories that strip away excess spectacle. The trend indicates growing demand for depth and character-driven…
Korean psychologist Suh Eun-kook discusses simple secrets to happiness, noting many people hesitate to answer 'Are you happy?'. The short piece highlights straightforward approaches to well-being and briefly explores…
University of Maine researchers at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center used the world's largest polymer 3D printer to produce precision sinusoidal concrete form liners for Kairos Power's 35-megawatt Hermes…
A historian reports that far-right extremists have exploited computing and internet technologies since the 1980s, using BBSes, websites and servers to disseminate propaganda and evade censorship. The piece traces…
At a recent WIRED event and follow-up interviews, AMD CEO Lisa Su described the company's pivot to data-center AI accelerators and forecasted 35% annual sales growth driven by AI, aiming for double-digit market share…
Tech executives including HPE Networking president Rami Rahim and AMD CEO Lisa Su said this week they do not view current AI investment levels as a bubble, speaking at HPE Discover in Barcelona and the UBS Global…
Cloudflare said Dec. 5 that it resolved a brief network outage after its Web Application Firewall parsing change made the network unavailable for several minutes. The change, deployed to mitigate a React Server…
Google launched Gemini 3 in early November, presenting it as its most advanced model and integrating it directly into Google Search and Workspace. Benchmark results released by Google show Gemini 3 scored 37.5% on the…
State-owned miner NMDC and IIT Kanpur signed a Memorandum of Understanding on December 5, 2025, to strengthen cybersecurity and advance digital technologies across NMDC’s operations. The agreement targets cyber risk…
Usher and Big Sean pledged $1 million to launch the Detroit Entertainment Innovation Incubator inside the new Michigan Central Boys & Girls Club, opening in February 2026. The 13,000-square-foot program, backed by New…
Swiss embedded computing specialist Toradex announced the launch of two compact computer-on-module families, OSM and Lino, for industrial automation and IoT. The 30×30mm modules use NXP i.MX 91 or 93 SoCs (up to dual…
On Dec. 5 Cloudflare experienced an issue early Friday that briefly took down some of the world's most popular websites for a few hours, with its dashboard and APIs failing just after 9:00 a.m. London time. The outage…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise reported fourth-quarter revenue of $9.68 billion on Thursday, up 14% year-over-year but below the $9.94 billion LSEG consensus, and posted adjusted earnings of $0.62 per share. Server revenue…
Researchers conducted an online survey in Wales from December 4, 2024, to March 4, 2025, collecting responses from 309 participants (179 public, 130 health professionals) to identify end-user barriers and facilitators…
On Wednesday the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a temporary restraining order blocking OpenAI from using the 'io' branding for products that may overlap with iyO's offerings. The court cited likelihood of…
Night Watch Investment Management released its Q3 2025 investor letter on December 5, 2025, reporting a 4.28% net gain in the quarter and a 25.88% year-to-date return. The firm attributes performance to continued…
Cristiano Ronaldo has invested in AI startup Perplexity AI, the company and founder Aravind Srinivas announced recently on Instagram and X. Srinivas described the move as an "elite collab," and Ronaldo praised curiosity…
Sberbank's GigaChat neural network reported receiving 102,000 questions ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin's year-end Direct Line Q&A, TASS said on December 5. The system flagged demographics—67% female; age…
Editors at major dictionaries in 2025 selected terms reflecting anxieties about online life, naming Macquarie's “AI slop,” Cambridge's “parasocial,” Oxford's “rage bait,” and Dictionary.com's “6-7.” The choices…
Monster Beverage demonstrates accelerating global growth as its Ultra line grew over 29% in the U.S., with early emerging-market increases above 40% in China and 54% in India. Management cites supply-chain modernization…
Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle, outlines a vision where stablecoins like USDC form an AI-powered "Economic OS" that makes money programmable, based on interviews and public posts through 2024–2025. Circle's June 2025…
Just Security’s editorial board publishes a curated list of books its editors read and recommend in 2025, released as a year-end feature. The compilation includes titles across politics, history, fiction, and…
Linus Torvalds recently criticized using lines of code as a productivity metric, saying anyone who favors it is "simply too stupid to work in a tech company." He did not retract his remarks after learning the approach…
At AWS re:Invent 2025, CEO Matt Garman said AI has shifted Amazon’s primary constraint from hiring developers to generating ideas, citing Bedrock’s billions of daily API calls and tools like Nova Forge and Amazon Q. He…
Moore Threads Technology surged more than fivefold in its Shanghai trading debut as investors vied to buy shares of the Beijing-based semiconductor supplier. Reporting is based on RSS-only metadata; full article…
Reports from 2024–2025 document rapid growth of AI data centers by companies like Microsoft and Google that concentrate in underserved rural areas, sparking local backlash over energy, water, and air impacts. Studies…
Elon Musk's Grok 4.20 outperformed competitors in the Alpha Arena Benchmark, reporting a 12.11% aggregate return over two weeks and peak returns up to 50% under specific conditions. The model combines real-time market…
Shimon Whiteson, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and Senior Staff Research Scientist at Waymo UK, spoke with host Claire on the Robot Talk podcast on December 5, 2025, about machine learning…
Mysuru-based Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) announced on December 5, 2025 it is developing advanced food technologies—space foods, endurance drinks for athletes, and geriatric three-meal…
The UK and Germany announced plans to integrate their science sectors to accelerate commercialisation of quantum supercomputing technologies, unveiled on the final day of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s state…
Anthropic put real money on the line in 2025 to test AI agents against blockchain code, measuring a $4.6 million vulnerability haul in crypto during the exercise. The brief description frames the result as evidence of…
Chicago Tribune sued Perplexity in New York federal court on December 4, 2025, alleging the AI startup systematically scraped and reproduced Tribune articles to power its RAG-based answer engine. The complaint seeks…
In Montreal on Dec. 5, 2025, Quebec Superior Court heard a joint submission that Arthur Galarneau, 22, was not criminally responsible for the March 17, 2023 murders of his parents and grandmother. Crown and defence…
A suspicious off-screen leaked trailer suggests Shenmue 4 will arrive in 2026 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. The four-minute low-resolution clip, uploaded by an unverified YouTube account, shows protagonist…
NVIDIA announced CUDA 13.1 and introduced CUDA Tile, a tile-based programming paradigm that abstracts tensor cores to simplify GPU programming across architectures. The release includes cuTile Python, available on…
Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous vehicle unit, faces an NHTSA probe after school districts documented 19 incidents since the start of the school year in which its driverless vehicles passed stopped school buses; the…