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An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta product managers are rebranding. Some are now calling themselves “AI builders,” a signal that AI coding tools are changing who gets to build software inside the company. One of them, Jeremie Guedj, announced th… Continue reading Several Meta Employees Have Started Calling Themselves ‘AI Builders’
An anonymous reader shares a report: When will AI movies start showing up in theaters nationwide? It was supposed to be next month. But when word leaked online that an AI short film contest winner was going to start screening before feature presentatio… Continue reading AMC Theatres Will Refuse To Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar
Cable TV providers have spent the past decade losing tens of millions of households to streaming services, but companies like Charter Communications are now slowing that exodus by bundling the very apps that once threatened to replace them.
Charter a… Continue reading How Streaming Became Cable TV’s Unlikely Life Raft
PayPal is notifying customers of a data breach after a software error in a loan application exposed their sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, for nearly 6 months last year. From a report: The incident affected the PayPal … Continue reading PayPal Discloses Data Breach That Exposed User Info For 6 Months
India’s IT services giants have spent decades deploying, customizing, and maintaining the world’s largest enterprise software platforms, putting hundreds of thousands of engineers in daily contact with the business logic and proprietary architectures o… Continue reading HSBC To Investors: If India Couldn’t Build an Enterprise Software Challenger, Neither Can AI
schwit1 writes: An IT blunder has revealed an apparent smuggling ring that has moved at least $90bn of Russian oil and is playing a central role in funding the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine. Financial Times has identified 48 seemingly independent companies … Continue reading Email Blunder Exposes $90 Billion Russian Oil Smuggling Ring
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Friday President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs that he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies, rejecting one of his most contentious assertions of his authority in a ruling with major implicati… Continue reading US Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Global Tariffs
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon’s cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools [non-paywalled source], leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant’s push to roll out these coding a… Continue reading Amazon Service Was Taken Down By AI Coding Bot
US President Donald Trump says he will direct US agencies, including the defence department, to “begin the process of identifying and releasing” government files on aliens and extraterrestrial life. From a report: Trump made the declaration in a post o… Continue reading Trump Directs US Government To Prepare Release of Files on Aliens and UFOs
A bare-bones Chinese app called “Are You Dead?” — whose entire premise is that solo-living users tap daily to confirm they’re still alive, triggering an alert to an emergency contact after two missed check-ins — has rocketed to the top of China’s app… Continue reading China’s Hottest App of 2026 Just Asks If You’re Still Alive