Wired
The research could do more than help unlock the mystery of caterpillar hearing. It could also help make microphones better.
Wired
The main action took place at Geneva Watch Days, but others dialed in remotely to make sure it wasn't just a Swiss party.
NY Times Tech
Now that there’s rarely any mystery to who’s calling, Gen Z has adopted a range of custom phone greetings — including no greeting at all.
Wired
The studio released an official catch-up list ahead of December’s release. We have easy links to watch every one of the movies so you can get up to speed.
NY Times Tech
Filings made Friday in The New York Times’s closely watched lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft included a range of copyright law and cultural references.
TechCrunch
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
TechCrunch
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
Ars Technica
"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
Ars Technica
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
TechCrunch
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
NY Times Tech
The blog Krebs on Security reported on an identity theft service trying to sell scans of licenses and other documents belonging to people in Canada and the United States.
Ars Technica
"It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
Ars Technica
FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.
Ars Technica
Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
Wired
The Home Depot Labor Day sale goes hard on grills and tools. Here are our recommendations on what to buy—and what to ignore.
Wired
In what appears to be a follow-up to the mighty “CasiOak,” the rugged Japanese watch brand is expected to release an all-new luxury homage.
TechCrunch
A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.
Ars Technica
Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
NY Times Tech
The survivors contend that the company should have notified the police when it shut down the shooter’s disturbing ChatGPT account eight months before the February attack in British Columbia.
Ars Technica
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.