AI surveillance startup Flock Safety to cut several hundred jobs amid backlash, sources say

Anthropic now offers a free vulnerability-finding service for open-source software

"Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot

Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad

YouTube, Meta, and Twitch won’t say if they’ll allow the US government to live stream an execution

Researchers sacked by OpenAI accuse tech firm of 'chilling' safety efforts

ChatGPT for Teens has special safeguards. A watchdog group finds most don't work

Seattle Becomes First City to Stop Grocery Stores from Using AI Based Personal Data to Set Prices

Flock offers voluntary separation packages to staff amid camera backlash

Autism diagnoses are 2.2x more common among kids from the poorest neighbourhoods than the richest, and the gap keeps growing, a study of 2.3 million children in Ontario, Canada found

Canada’s bill C-22 threatens encryption, users’ privacy and the security of digital economies

New Report Reveals Walmart’s Patents for Price-Gouging Tech

In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology

Deno is ending official development in a year. The biggest Rust project ever, and maybe proof we never needed another Node, just use Rust

Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B

Unison Cloud is now open source

Why are coding agents so dumb?

Fired OpenAI researchers say they were let go for 'prioritising safety'

Goose programming language

Kotlin keeps up with Rust in DHH's Campfire rewrite

School Bus Diesel Bills Have Doubled in Some Areas. Now Activities Are at Risk

Triple-A Minesweeper

School district makes dramatic U-turn on AI, banning it across all grades weeks after Google Gemini rollout

Netflix Eyes Major Layoffs

The Wild West of polyglot docs sites

Greater eveningness (later chronotype) at age 12-13 causes poorer mental health at age 13-14, shows study of 7,000 U.S. children

Run Windows games (up to D3D9) in the browser

Moms who vacuumed, aired out futons and used anti-mite covers more often while pregnant had toddlers less likely to show signs of developmental delays at 18 months to 3 years, in a Japanese study of over 81,000 mother-child pairs

Beyond learning: when does it actually make sense to write a custom native backend instead of using LLVM/Cranelift?

Anthropic Bans 'Cruel' Behaviour Against Claude

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