Meta AI breaches external firm during security testing sandbox error

Is football AI-proof? Why tech investors wanted a slice of the World Cup

What was the thinking of the investors backing the now-canned plan, and are such proposals in the future inevitable?

Back to the future: Inside the rise and future of hacky sack's throwback momentum

This weekend, ESPN 8: The Ocho will broadcast all manner of sports that don't normally sit front of mind for the average fan. The Microsoft Excel World Championship finals. It's a mélange of events you likely either haven't heard of or haven't thought of since the last time they were on The Ocho.

A Tome of Forbidden Technologies

Once again we’re near the end of a month with five Wednesdays, and as regular readers of this blog know well, that means that readers got to nominate and vote on the subject of the fifth Wednesday post. This time the theme that won the contest was a glance back over the landscape of rejected and abandoned technologies that still work well, and may be worth bringing back into use as the Long Descent picks up speed. That’s a controversial topic, of course, because it flies in the face of the...

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