Author: Tool Tech Team
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta’s “AI support assistant” bot into resetting account passwords.
TikTok has introduced a new way for creators and brands to improve how their content is discovered.
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.
It has already reassigned some members of the DeepMind project, while others have already left the company.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that it may be time to “pace” AI development so the world will be ready for it.
FrontierCode v1.1 has surfaced a counterintuitive finding that contradicts what many developers assume about AI coding assistants: Claude Opus 5 at medium reasoning effort delivers nearly the same accuracy as the highest-scoring configurations tested, at ~1.5x baseline compute versus ~3x for high effort. For teams evaluating AI coding benchmarks to optimize their workflows and budgets,…
For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut, a “residential proxy” provider operated by the…
Having a website that doesn’t convert is a little like having a bucket with a hole in it. Do you keep filling it up while the water’s pouring out — or do you fix the hole then add water? In other words, do you channel your budget into attracting people who are “pouring” through without…
Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, was the first time I got genuine chills about what large language models are now able to do. But this is a case of human hubris, not rogue AI.
xAI — now officially known as SpaceXAI after the merging of Elon Musk’s two companies – has filed a lawsuit against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to challenge the state’s new law that would ban apps and websites that can generate nonconsensual intimate images. It would also impose fines on their developers every time people use them…