Economy
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After months of user complaints, Anthropic debuts new $200/month AI plan
On Wednesday, Anthropic introduced a new $100- to $200-per-month subscription tier called Claude Max that offers expanded usage limits for…
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“The girl should be calling men.” Leak exposes Black Basta’s influence tactics.
A leak of 190,000 chat messages traded among members of the Black Basta ransomware group shows that it’s a highly…
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Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting”
On Monday, John Carmack, co-creator of id Software’s Quake franchise, defended Microsoft’s recent AI-generated Quake II demo against criticism from…
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Meta’s surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality
On Saturday, Meta released its newest Llama 4 multimodal AI models in a surprise weekend move that caught some AI…
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NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?
A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their operations poses a threat to…
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Google unveils end-to-end messages for Gmail. Only thing is: It’s not true E2EE.
When Google announced Tuesday that end-to-end encrypted messages were coming to Gmail for business users, some people balked, noting it…
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AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia’s servers. Automated bots seeking AI…
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MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together
What does it take to get OpenAI and Anthropic—two competitors in the AI assistant market—to get along? Despite a fundamental…
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What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s…
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Scientists are storing light we cannot see in formats meant for human eyes
Imagine working with special cameras that capture light your eyes can’t even see—ultraviolet rays that cause sunburn, infrared heat signatures…
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