Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code
The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open…
May 2026
‘A Paradigm Shift’: Supermassive Black Hole Without a Galaxy Changes What We Thought Came First
A recent Webb discovery defies the classic scenario of how black holes form and grow.
LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they’re false
If you tell an 8-year-old a lie, then immediately tell them you were just kidding, that kid probably won’t end…
Researchers Put AI Models in Charge of a Simulated Society. Grok Oversaw a Crime Spree
If Elon Musk’s bot ruled the world, total societal collapse would apparently follow.
Researchers develop a new process to get lithium out of rocks
While we make batteries based on many different chemistries, nothing has approached the massive scale at which we can produce…
FBI says Google engineer used internal search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket
The US charged a Google software engineer with insider trading after he allegedly made a profit of $1.2 million on…
A respectable port of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition invades macOS
Despite all the graphics capabilities of modern Macs, being a Mac gamer is generally a thankless existence. Every once in…
Apple working to cram massive Gemini model into iPhone to power new Siri
It’s impossible to totally avoid generative AI when interacting with technology anymore, but Apple has a bit less of it.…
Amazon turns to Jeff Bezos’ other company to do some heavy lifting
It was less than two months ago that the third flight of Blue Origin’s heavy-lift New Glenn rocket left a…
How pigeons exploit magnetic fields for navigation
Scientists have long known that migrating birds and homing pigeons navigate in part by sensing the Earth’s magnetic fields, especially…