A new survey found that kids find it easy to bypass age checks, despite a rise in age verification laws around the world.

I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit’s High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my …

Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died peacefully Wednesday, surrounded by his family, according to a news release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87.

Modders, start your engines.

Run AI agents and pipelines on real production data. Every run is a transaction you can roll back, with every network call audited.

RAM prices are forcing companies to choose between higher prices and worse specs. Some have decided on doing both.

Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

We’ve raised Claude's usage limits and agreed a new compute partnership with SpaceX that will substantially increase our capacity in the near term.

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A gathering in Colombia reflects mounting impatience with the slow pace of global climate negotiations. Countries first agreed at COP28 in Dubai in 2023 to “transition away from fossil fuels,” but made little progress on it.

With over 7% market share, BYD is now the top-selling EV brand in the UK so far in 2026, surpassing...

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A deep dive on flow maps.

Today at Next ‘26, we’re launching Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the trust platform for the agentic web and the next evolution of reCAPTCHA.

Protect the conversations that matter with a secure, end-to-end encrypted video conferencing from Proton.

Computational model lets users tweak parameters to hear effect on the sound in early design process.