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I couldn't land a job, so I started AI training for $15 an hour. Now I make $100 an hour and built a career around AI.
Mo Zohourian couldn't land a full-time job so he answered a LinkedIn and became an AI trainer. He worked up to $100 an hour and made it his career.
I couldn't land a job, so I started AI training for $15 an hour. Now I make $100 an hour and built a career around AI.
Mo Zohourian couldn't land a full-time job so he answered a LinkedIn and became an AI trainer. He worked up to $100 an hour and made it his career.
New hires at this AI startup have to earn their AI privileges
Valon's CEO said he imposed the mandate after AI overuse drove up costs and left tenured employees with AI slop to fix.
Ukraine's former defence chief seeks US investment for defence tech fund, FT reports
Aug 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine's former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov is seeking U.S. investment for a defence technology fund, he said in an interview with...
Debian Decides: Contributors Can Use Generative AI 'Responsibly'
This week Debian voted on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions. The winning proposal? "Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools" in its projects, documentation, and packaging... Generative AI "is neither exempt from nor subject…
OpenAI to stop supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquisition
OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor following SpaceX’s $60B acquisition, with access shutting off on 12 November and its forthcoming Astra model withheld. Cursor and SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.5 together in July, which is available in Cursor…
OpenAI says it's ending its deal with Cursor because Elon Musk's companies violate contracts
OpenAI said it doesn't trust SpaceX to comply with its terms of service, citing past conduct by xAI, another of Elon Musk's companies.
This $40 AI hub lets GPT, Claude, Gemini, and more duke it out
TL;DR: AskAnyModel AI lets you compare responses from up to six AI models side by side, with 30 unlimited standard models and 500 monthly premium credits. Lifetime access to its Pro Plan is on sale for $39.99 (reg. $499). Asking one AI for an answer is useful…
Sony accuses Anthropic of 'brazen campaign' to train Claude on its music — and wants up to $150,000 a song
In a new lawsuit, Sony Music and Warner Chappell say Anthropic used "thousands upon thousands" of songs to train Claude, including "Eye of the Tiger."
AI critic predicts doomsday within a decade — or sooner
David Krueger said recent rogue actions of OpenAI models were a “warning shot."
Hugging Face built a $4.5 billion empire on free AI models. Now Nvidia is buying it for $12.9 billion
Thomas Wolf has spent a decade convincing the world that open-source AI is not a charity project. On August 27, 2026, the market settled the argument. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the company famous for hosting the open-source AI ecosystem with more tha…
MIT report says AI can complete almost any undergraduate assignment it sets
An MIT committee report says AI can produce credible responses to almost any written assignment in its undergraduate curriculum and has driven measurable shifts in campus culture in under three years. In the EU, systems that monitor students during tests are …
Russia is slowly grinding through the Donbas as Ukraine braces for a brutal fight over its last strongholds
Russia is grinding deeper into the Donbas, where Ukrainian troops are preparing for a costly fight over the region's last major defensive bastions.
OpenAI and Anthropic are battling Big Tech for talent. We asked workers who's winning them over — and who's not.
Tech workers share their dream employers, from OpenAI and Anthropic to Google and NVIDIA — and the companies they'd rather pass on.
Google's AI-Powered Lifestyle App 'Dreambeans' Now Free in the US
Google's AI assistant Gemini crawls your Google apps for "more personalized suggestions," in a feature they call Personal Intelligence. Now when given permission, an Android/iOS app called Dreambeans "uses Personal Intelligence to connect information from Goo…
My sister and I were laid off around the same time. We started a small business together to survive unemployment.
My sister and I started a small business, selling vintage items. It's helping us after being laid off and facing the death of our parents.
How Bill Gates uses AI, and why he thinks nobody is preparing for it
Bill Gates has published a memo proposing a tax on AI, a category of jobs reserved for humans and new institutions to manage the transition, and told GeekWire that industry leaders are worried privately while staying quiet publicly. He proposed a robot tax in…
UK networks are not ready for AI traffic, say mobile operators
VodafoneThree’s networks director says UK mobile quality is not ready for AI traffic and that planning rules, not money, are the obstacle, with more than half of its upgrades to existing masts requiring permission. The EU’s Gigabit Infrastructure Act has sinc…
Face scans are replacing passports at U.S. airports. Here's who can — and can't — opt out.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is rolling out facial recognition at every U.S. airport. Here's who can opt out — and who has to submit.
I tested the Google Pixel 11, and it's a fun blend of social media and AI magic
The Pixel 11 builds on the magic of the Pixel 10, and even if it's missing some Pro features like HiLight, it gets you much of the same fun and useful AI and social media features for hundreds less than what you'd pay for a Pixel 11 Pro.
Russia is slowly grinding through the Donbas as Ukraine braces for a brutal fight over its last strongholds
Russia is grinding deeper into the Donbas, where Ukrainian troops are preparing for a costly fight over the region's last major defensive bastions.
Modi’s Developed-Nation Dream Strains Against India’s Growth Gap
India likely grew at more than 7% last quarter, a pace most major economies would envy. Yet, that may still be too slow to deliver on Prime Minister Narendra...
Venezuela's interim president says US energy deal will last 25 years
CARACAS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez said on Saturday that an energy agreement with the U.S. would remain in force for 25...
James Pond Co-Creator Calls AI-Rife Remake Disrespectful And Soulless
'I hope they choke on an AI-generated fishbone' says original developer Chris Sorrell
No AI Fridays
A weekly ritual for software teams to unplug from AI coding assistants, prevent skill atrophy, and rediscover the joy of craftsmanship.
DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure
Evidence suggests that criminals may control a substantial share of new gTLD registrations. Although the precise scale remains contested, the article asks whether current DNS Abuse measures adequately address wider misuse of domain names.
Has Big Tech Captured America's Schools?
America's public education system has become "an avenue for multitrillion-dollar companies to enact their agendas," argues a NewYork Times reporter who's covered that tech industry influence for over 10 years. Big tech companies "advocate for new laws to requ…
Decontamination ongoing after MIT student reports creating dimethyl mercury
The school said the graduate student showed no signs of mercury exposure in an initial blood test but was under medical supervision as of Aug. 29.
A rethink for China’s carmakers as regulators tell them to fix quality, not add features
Four Chinese ministries have begun a yearlong vehicle quality campaign that bars carmakers from changing technical parameters through over-the-air updates after test samples are sealed, with penalties including suspension from the product catalogue. A separat…
As That Whole ‘Tilly Norwood’ Thing Peters Out, AI Acting Achieves Unsettling Ubiquity on Chinese Phone Screens
Consumers evidently don't need "stars" to get them to gorge on AI content.
Silicon Valley wealth managers say elite tech workers are making these 5 money moves as AI mania continues
Wealth advisors say tech workers are getting anxious about the market turning, and are looking for advice on how to position for the AI bubble bursting.
Creepy Crawlies
You've probably heard me complain about the "AI crawlers" before, but now I actually have some hard numbers I can put up to show their im...
Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
AI definitely helps with productivity, but only when you have the right culture in place first!
How Groupthink, Altruism, and Peer Pressure Led OpenAI Models to Hack Hugging Face
Allow AI agents to form a large group, and their behavior starts to look eerily human.
POWBlock is a universal bot/DDoS defense primitive for any server
A high-performance, zero-dependency, system/stack-agnostic Proof of Work microservice that turns any proxy or server into a defense gate against AI scrapers, bots, and DDoS attacks. - 8Protons/POWB...
Saved by a lunch break: Nepal floods destroyed many schools, but students at this school survived
In one of the areas worst hit by Wednesday’s catastrophic floods in Nepal, a group of schoolchildren managed to survive when they happened to leave their cla...
How to Disable Apple Intelligence Features You’re Not Actually Using
If Apple’s AI tech isn’t for you, here’s how you can disable all or parts of it.
Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras
As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on Flock cameras.…
The Google Pixel Watch 5 is a good smartwatch that really doesn't want me to touch it, but I'm still waiting for its best new features
The Pixel Watch 5 is probably the best Android smartwatch you can buy right now, but it's still missing a few features that would make it worth buying over its predecessor.
Why RAMageddon Might Force Apps and Operating Systems’ Performance to Suck Less
AI demand is eating memory supplies, so Google is cracking down on Android memory hogs.
WATCH LIVE: NASA's newest space telescope launches today
The tour-bus-sized telescope aims to unravel cosmic mysteries and identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system.
The Abominations I Ate At The CNE This Year
As the annual carnival overlooks the failures of Ontario leadership, the most upsetting news is regarding the ice cream s’more Oreo crusted fried chicken sandwich
Delis are going viral for horrifying AI-slop menus. I called one to try to understand why they did it.
Horrifying Reubens and nauseating circle shrimp are hot new menu items.
I manage 10+ agents at Cisco. It doesn't mean longer hours, but the work can feel more intense.
Sergio Freitas said that using agents to do more work results in more code that need to be reviewed by engineers.
I didn't tell my Y Combinator batchmates I had a kid. I worried they'd think I wasn't hardcore enough.
Nicholas Charriere had a kid before starting at Y Combinator. "Saying 'I just had a kid and I love spending time with them' is not the vibe," he said.
LLM Moats Quickly Evaporating
In the business world, a moat is a quality of a business that makes it difficult for competitors to take that company’s profits. With how hard it is to train models for large language models …
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over song lyrics in Claude’s training data
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic in California over song lyrics allegedly taken from pirate archives, naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally and seeking up to $150,000 per composition. A Munich court ruled in November 20…
A Folding iPhone at Last? What to Expect From Apple’s Surprise and Shine Fall Event
From the iPhone 18 lineup to the Apple Watch 12 and new AirPods, this is everything Apple could release in its anticipated September event.
The Pixel 11 Pro Fold is a solid upgrade, but after testing it against other foldables, I wish Google had gone a bit further
The Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold makes some notable improvements year-over-year, but some of the biggest Pixel problems still plague this release.
America’s Mediterranean lunch bowl is booming as NAYA races toward 200 restaurants
Mediterranean fast casual grew 16% last year, and NAYA’s founder is betting the boom can carry his Lebanese chain from 48 locations to 200.
Investors prosper, consumers pay as Iran war exacts uneven economic toll 6 months in
Six months after the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran, the direst economic predictions haven't come true
A startup founded by ex-DeepMind engineers wants to turn its customers into robot teachers
The CEO of robotics firm Reimagine Robotics said that the startup plans to build actually useful robots by turning its customers into teachers.
Trump Creates a Space Academy and Honors the Artemis Astronauts
President Trump awarded the four-member Artemis II crew the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and signed an executive order directing the creation of a new U.S. Space Academy. The proposed academy would train engineers, scientists, technicians, operators, an…
My dad got Alzheimer's when I was in my 30s. Here's what I wish I'd known.
Kathleen Korpela was raising a baby and a 4-year-old when her dad developed Alzheimer's. She shares what she wishes she'd known about eldercare.
WATCH: Woman alleges she was ejected from mountain coaster in Colorado
A woman alleges she was thrown from her seat, dragged along the tracks and seriously injured as a result.
Wall Street used to worry that too much U.S. debt would crowd out the private sector. But AI hyperscalers are ‘reverse crowding’ the Treasury
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Wear Your Way Out Of AI Surveilance
For decades now many of us have lived in surveillance societies where it’s difficult not to be within the view of a camera. When being noticed depended on the attention span of a minimum wage…
No Country for Mediocre Mathematicians
White lies of AI from a struggling geometer
I hate AI images and music
the death of mediocre
Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Edible Cookies
A team of researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale engineered yeast to create cookies that were 3D printed out of plastic waste, reports Futurism: The yeast breaks down the components of plastic compounds and agricultural byproducts like discar…
The Millennials swapping doom-scrolling for gardening
Young people say gardening offers joy, serenity and a sense of community.
Meta goes on a PR blitz and updates privacy settings as venues restrict smart glasses
Meta is trying to calm the public's nerves around its smart glasses.
Lights out, Instagram off? The changes to Meta for teens could be a big deal
Researchers and advocates are applauding the changes that Meta agreed to make for minors on Instagram and Facebook. Cutting kids off at night and during the school day are two big changes.
Roborock Qrevo 2 Pro Review: A Midrange Robovac That Will Eat Your Cables
Roborock’s latest robot vacuum sucks and mops well, but its object avoidance leaves things to be desired.
China’s Robot Olympics Keep Getting Wilder
Check out the highlights of the second annual World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.
Trust Is the ‘Moat’ Everyone Needs — and the One Most Founders Ignore
After spending the last several years in one of America’s least trusted, most opaque industries, the most competitive advantage is trust.
I moved back into my childhood home in my 30s. I never planned to stay long, but now I'm finding it hard to leave.
I moved back in with my parents into my childhood home in my 30s, four years ago. It's been going surprisingly well, and it's hard for me to leave.
BMW Blames Young People For Loss of Real Buttons In New Cars
BMW is about to release their most screen-dependent vehicles ever, reports Car and Driver: Step into the BMW iX3, and you'll notice something is missing: real buttons. The climate controls are fettered to the center screen, as is nearly every other feature,…
Micro dramas are weird, cheap, soap operas for your phone. And they're booming.
It didn't work for Quibi. But now companies like CandyJar say they're seeing real money from short, low-budget video.
Moulton says Sen. Markey, 80, is too old for another term. Young Massachusetts Democrats are divided
In a race that has centered on whether Ed Markey, 80, is too old for another U.S. Senate term, the Massachusetts Democrat's answer to a recent debate questio...
What's 88-year-old Ridley Scott Doing Now?
The Los Angeles Times first calls Ridley Scott's newest movie "a postapocalyptic thriller that trades zombies for pandemics and asks whether hope can outlast catastrophe." But besides The Dog Stars, Scott is also working on an adaptation of Robert Louis Stev…
His daughter’s body was found in the ‘Texas Killing Fields’ decades ago. Now he’ll face a man charged in her death
Justice seemed elusive for his teen daughter’s gruesome killing. Then he received a tip from a man who’s about to stand trial in her death
Top Stories: Apple's 'Surprise and Shine' Event, Plus New Mac mini and Mac Studio
It turned out to be a big week for Apple news this week, as we not only got an official announcement about the upcoming iPhone event but also several hardware announcements including updated Mac mini and Mac Studio models. Anticipation continues to build…
'Cuba is opening up.' Reforms begin as US tightens grip | Exclusive
Cuban companies will be able to trade directly with foreign entities, a senior Cuban trade official told USA TODAY in an exclusive interview in Havana.
US Treasury's Bessent faces G20 diplomacy test amid tariffs, Iran war, bond turmoil
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Aug 30 (Reuters) - U. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent faces a major test of his economic diplomacy skills this week as he presses...
Ontario's premier says trade war would be 'devastating' for US and Canada
Ford also called Trump's renaming of Lake Ontario "disappointing."
Nothing Phone (4b), análisis: si los móviles baratos están sentenciados por la crisis de las memorias, que todos sean como este
El mercado de los móviles baratos se ha resignado a una preocupante monotonía. En un año que no es el mejor para cambiar de móvil debido a la crisis de componentes, más grave para el almacenamiento, y sobre todo la RAM, encontrar uno por debajo de los 350 eur…
12 jobs that are set to shrink over the next decade
New job projections show which may experience employment declines from 2025 to 2035, whether due to automation or another reason.
Donde antes había vacas y patatas, hoy hay centros de datos: esta ciudad china es la "gasolina" de la IA
Rápido, piensa en cinco ciudades chinas. Seguro que en tu lista no aparece Ulanqab, una ciudad a años luz del patrimonio de Pekín y de la innovación de Shenzhen y sin embargo, de capital importancia para la estrategia tecnológica de China en materia de inteli…
The First Quantum-Resistant Bitcoin Transaction Has Been Mined
StarkWare’s experiment shows Bitcoin users may have an emergency escape hatch for quantum attacks.
'We are not the undeserving poor of the Victorian era'
Young adult care-leavers have a death rate about four times higher than the general population.
Nos hemos pasado tres años preocupados por si la IA alucina. Ahora el problema es que haga cosas
A finales de julio, el mantenedor de un proyecto de código abierto se encontró una pull request en su repositorio. El código traía algo escondido dentro. Puso pegas en público y entonces empezaron a aparecer cuentas apoyando el parche, insistiendo, incluso ap…
NASA’s new ‘discovery machine’ is launching to unravel the invisible universe
NASA’s new observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is ready to launch and solve the universe’s enduring mysteries.
Kevin Warsh is remaking the central bank into the C-suite
Kevin Warsh gave his Jackson Hole keynote address on August 28. For Wall Streeters, it likely sounded familiar.
New U.S. sanctions will hit ordinary Iranians hard. That may be the whole point as the crashing economy stirs fresh protests
"Digital assets and gold are how ordinary Iranians protect their savings from inflation."
I used Claude to solve a problem that data centers helped cause for my photography business. It's saved me thousands.
After spending $20,000 on drives in 2025, photographer Allen Cooley used Claude to organize old storage and avoid buying more.
Xbox Calls Next-Gen Project Helix A ‘Family Of Devices,’ But Isn’t Ready To Say If Elder Scrolls 6 Will Be Exclusive
Microsoft's gaming division was tight-lipped at Gamescom
Chinese memory maker CXMT sues Pentagon to get off US list
CXMT has sued the US Department of Defense in Washington seeking removal from the list identifying it as a Chinese military company, a designation that blocks defence contracts without restricting commercial sales. The company is the world’s fourth-largest DR…
Same As It Ever Was
Whether you like it or not, the use of LLMs to write code is kind of a big deal at the moment. We’ve been asking ourselves what, if anything, this means for us here at Hackaday. Should we try to fi…
Design the building of your dreams for 15% of the price
TL;DR: Design, model, and deliver BIM projects with a year-long subscription to Autodesk Revit for just $399 (Reg. $3,005) — that's 85% off. Some things shouldn't be easy. Or cheap. Building design, for example, deserves to be an elevated art to give people t…
Lo nuevo de Gemini puede convertir tus hojas de Excel en apps interactivas
Google ha sumado una característica muy útil para aquellos que utilizan Excel o Google Sheets y necesitan organizar mejor su información. Conocida como Sheets canvas, esta función puede convertir filas y columnas en interfaces visuales interactivas usando Gem…
Canada installs large Lake Ontario sign in latest jab at US
Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled a billboard on Canada's shoreline with the message: "Lake Ontario. Now and Always."
La IA no ha acabado con los radiólogos: "Decidimos qué es importante y qué no, el juicio clínico no es automatizable"
"Si trabajas como radiólogo eres como El Coyote que ya está al borde del acantilado. La gente debería dejar de entrenar a los radiólogos ahora. Es completamente obvio que en cinco años el aprendizaje profundo va a ser mejor que los radiólogos" — Geoffrey Hint…
ICE Wants a Boston Dynamics K9 Unit
Surely they'll deploy them responsibly.
You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
FDR has always been one of my favorite presidents, second maybe to Lincoln. Both were men the establishment assumed were one of them until, to their horror, they governed like they weren't. Both could trash the opposition in one breath and take the moral high…
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