A new Instagram feature might expose your embarrassing habits

Instagram Reels has added a new feature that shows you a feed of videos that your friends have liked. The bad news: It works both ways, meaning your friends can now see every video you’ve liked. 

“We want Instagram to not only be a place where you consume entertaining content, but one where you connect over that content with friends,” Instagram’s head, Adam Mosseri, wrote in his announcement of the fea

Subaru security vulnerability exposed millions of cars to tracking risks

Two security researchers discovered a security vulnerability in Subaru’s Starlink-connected vehicles last year that gave them “unrestricted targeted access to all vehicles and customer accounts” across the U.S., Canada, and Japan, according to a Wired report.

The researchers, Sam Curry and Shubham Shah, alerted the Japanese automaker to the flaws in November and they were

OpenAI’s new Operator is a step into AI’s agentic future

OpenAI announced on Thursday a research preview of Operator, an AI agent that can browse the web and perform tasks for the user. Operator is powered by the Computer-Using Agent (CUA), an AI model that merges GPT-4o’s vision capabilities with reasoning capability.

OpenAI trained CUA to let Operator complete digital tasks by interacting with the buttons, menus, and text fields within the graphical user interfaces of t

TikTok France is being sued by 7 families. Here’s why

In the moment when her world shattered three years ago, Stephanie Mistre found her 15-year-old daughter, Marie, lifeless in the bedroom where she died by suicide.

“I went from light to darkness in a fraction of a second,” Mistre said, describing the day in September 2021 that marked the start of her fight against

The Oval Office ‘Stargate Project’ reveal was just more tech industry genuflecting

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Trump’s ‘Stargate Project’ reveal had little to do with reality

“Stargate” sounds like a movie, and where Donald Trump is

‘Students will benefit from fewer distractions in the classroom’: Pinterest CEO supports phone-free schools

Pinterest’s CEO wants teens to use their app, but not during school hours. 

Bill Ready has joined the growing chorus of parents, educators, and policymakers advocating for “phone-free schools.” A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 72% of high school and 33% of middle school teachers report cellphone dist

States are turning their public benefits systems over to AI. The results have often led to ‘immense suffering’

In 2011, when Michigan was looking for ways to cut spending on its unemployment program after it had been drained by the Great Recession, the state turned to a new idea: building—and eventually deploying—an automated computer system to root out benefit fraud.

The automated fraud detection system generated

What to do when you can’t escape your old boss on social media

There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what about the rest of the rules? When can we really remind someone of our old Venmo request? What happens when someone tries to flirt with you on LinkedIn?

Fortunately, terminally online writers Delia Cai and St

‘The Brutalist’ used AI voice editing. Is that such a crime?

The Brutalist, a three-and-a-half-hour awards favorite, is a film about human creativity. Ironically, its biggest scandal surrounds artificial intelligence.

Brady Corbet’s epic follows Hungarian Jew László Tóth, played by Adrien Brody, as he flees the Nazis and picks up his architecture practice in the United States. Eventually he manages to bring his wife, Erzsébet, played by Felicity Jones, to join him. Both characters frequently speak in Hungarian throughout the film. T

Trump rescinds Biden’s executive order on AI safety, as promised

Hours after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump made a symbolic mark on the future of artificial intelligence by repealing former President Joe Biden’s guardrails for the fast-developing technology.

But what comes next from Trump and how it will diverge from how his predecessor sought to safeguard AI technology remains unclear. The new adminis


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