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Why the robocalls about your Google listing won't stop
Put your business on Google and the robocalls never stop? Here's why it happens, why blocking fails, and what actually works.
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Your photos know where you live
I handed an AI a photo with nothing in it, a blank wall and a few trees, no signs. It named the state. Then I gave it a window view with the location scrubbed out, and minutes later it had the exact building and floor.
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The AI jobs apocalypse got postponed.
A year ago, the two biggest names in AI told us our jobs were in trouble. OpenAI's Sam Altman warned that entire categories of work would vanish. Anthropic's Dario Amodei even put a number on it: roughly half of entry-level white-collar jobs gone within five years,
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How to spot a phishing email in 2026
Have you ever been phished by your own work? Have you felt betrayed when you clicked a link in an email that looked legit and then your IT department sends you an email assigning you mandatory phishing training? Email phishing has evolved over time, and so has the way to
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Meta dropped Instagram DM encryption. Why?
Five days later, Meta added a new privacy feature to WhatsApp. If your business or organization uses either app for anything you'd rather Meta not read, here's what changed. What changed On May 8, Meta turned off end-to-end encryption (the math that keeps Meta from reading
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The Chatbot: What We Actually Know About AI Companions and Mental Health
Headlines about AI chatbots and mental health have largely been about teenagers, but the data points elsewhere. In January, JAMA Network Open published a survey of nearly 21,000 American adults led by Roy Perlis at Massachusetts General Hospital. Daily users of generative AI were more likely to screen positive
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The Disturbing Reality of AI-Powered Plush Toys
Last fall, a $99 plush bear named Kumma told researchers from the US Public Interest Research Group where to find pills and matches and engaged in graphic sexual conversation. The bear is sold on Amazon. It runs on OpenAI's GPT-4o. It's part of the wave Wired
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Google is sending a few clicks back to your website
Google announced five changes to AI Overviews on Tuesday. The most visible one is a new "Further Exploration" section at the bottom of AI-generated answers that links out to articles, case studies, and reports. The other four are smaller: a "Subscribed" label that flags content from
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Fake face. Real money.
A reporter at 404 Media got on a Microsoft Teams call recently and watched his own face appear on someone else, in real time. The face moved when the other person moved. Lighting changes held. Expressions tracked. The software is designed and sold for impersonation scams, and it works as
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A third of new websites are AI-generated. A Stanford study explains what changed.
Researchers from Stanford, Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive sampled the web for 33 months and found that by mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published websites were classified as AI-generated or AI-assisted. That number was zero before ChatGPT launched in late 2022. Three years to remake a third of
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I Can’t Let You Save That, Dave: The AI Hard Drive Hostage Crisis
The AI data center boom has bought up enough storage to break the market for everyone else. Western Digital, one of the biggest hard drive makers, has sold out its entire 2026 enterprise inventory. Micron, the parent company of Crucial, just quit the consumer SSD market entirely. The Internet Archive
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The big ChatGPT-in-education study just got retracted.
Springer Nature pulled a meta-analysis last month that claimed ChatGPT helps students learn. The paper had been cited hundreds of times. It was a year old. The journal said discrepancies in the analysis undermined their confidence in the findings. The authors didn't respond to the journal's