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A lawsuit over the Trump administration’s infamous Houthi Signal group chat has revealed what steps departments took to preserve the messages—and how little they actually saved. Read more

At TED 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced tough questions on AI ethics, artist compensation, and the risks of autonomous agents in a tense interview with TED’s Chris Anderson, revealing new details about OpenAI’s explosive growth and future plans.Read More Read more

Companies today are trying to do more with their data than ever before. However, companies’ existing data architectures aren’t necessarily constructed in a manner that’s conducive to getting it all done. According to IT analyst Howard Dresner, an emerging pattern dubbed the active data architecture will give companies the freedom to realize their big data… Read more

Funding is about to run out for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program – a system used by major companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Intel, and AMD to identify and track publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The program helps engineers identify how bad an exploit is and how to prioritize applying patches or other mitigations.… Read more

Natural language interface to databases is a growing focus within artificial intelligence, particularly because it allows users to interact with structured databases using plain human language. This area, often known as NL2SQL (Natural Language to SQL), is centered on transforming user-friendly queries into SQL commands that can be directly executed on databases. The objective is… Read more

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a “potentially crazy idea” in 2022 to get people using Facebook more: deleting everyone’s friends’ lists. The possibility was discussed on Monday via internal emails shown by the FTC as Zuckerberg testified during Meta’s antitrust trial. Zuckerberg floated the idea of considering “wiping everyone’s graphs” — their friends lists —… Read more

Tariffs are dissuading, not motivating, some companies to move their production to the US. Blackmagic Design, an Australia-based digital cinematography camera company, was gearing up to start making products in the United States before the Trump administration blew a tariff-shaped hole in its plans. Now, not only is Blackmagic having to increase prices in the… Read more

A PDF of Meta’s opening statement slides in its FTC antitrust hearing yesterday contains easy-to-remove redactions that make it possible to see everything the company didn’t want made public, The Verge has discovered.  Thanks to the poor redactions, we can see sections comparing the use of Apple’s Messages app to Meta apps like Instagram and… Read more

Though the exact details of the situation have not been confirmed, community infighting seems to have spilled out in a breach of the notorious image board. Read more

About a year before the Federal Trade Commission first opened its antitrust investigation into Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, CEO Mark Zuckerberg internally suggested “the extreme step of spinning Instagram out as a separate company.” In a 2018 email to his executives, Zuckerberg wrote that, ​​”while most companies resist break-ups, the corporate history is… Read more