Your window to save up to $200 is closing fast. Current ticket pricing ends Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, prices go up. At Disrupt, getting ahead means more than sitting in on great sessions. It means meeting the people you need to know, seeing what’s coming before it hits the mainstream, and … Read more
Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly “killing all humans,” our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack — and the risk is growing. “We were always prey. We were just kind of surviving at the appetite of our predators,” Joshua Corman, executive in residence for public safety and resilience at … Read more
After the success of Backrooms, it looks like A24 is trying to cash in on yet another internet horror craze with a new installment in the V/H/S horror anthology series set in the SCP Foundation universe. But as soon as it was announced, the backlash started, and V/H/S: SCP already appears to be on shaky … Read more
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on streaming platforms, FAST channels, and the future of entertainment, follow Charles Pulliam-Moore. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. Before Netflix fully committed to becoming a streaming … Read more
“You guys should understand that we pulled off the biggest supplychain [sic] maybe ever recorded in modern history,” one TeamPCP member wrote in the leaked chats. Michael Fletcher, a former AFP analyst who now works in the threat research division of an Australian telecom firm, says he approached Larsen around that time about methods for … Read more
Standard versus watermarked text generation. Credit: Lasso Security Standard versus watermarked text generation. Credit: Lasso Security A key feature of SynthID is something known as tournament sampling. Similar to a sports game, SynthID evaluates large numbers of next-word token candidates. It uses a secret key to assign them probability scores. A pair of tokens competes … Read more
For most of the last century, T. rex was pictured as a sluggish, tail-dragging reptile that had to warm up in the sun before it could go anywhere. Then, further research changed that view, replacing it with the active, bird-like animal shown in the movie Jurassic Park. But whether T. rex used warm blood to … Read more
Judicial blocking orders Issa’s bill was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Issa is the chair of a subcommittee on courts, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, and the Internet. The text of Issa’s “American Copyright Protection Act of 2026” is not on the congressional website yet, but it has been circulating, and Public Knowledge … Read more
News groups are also upset that instead of listening to insiders warning that scraping news was theft, Microsoft and OpenAI never chose to license content, allegedly usurping them in another market in ways they couldn’t anticipate. Specifically, their motion accused Microsoft of violating “industry norms” by selling a dataset purchased for Bing as training data … Read more
Google’s AI models may not be in the lead by most measures right now, but the company does have one key advantage: your data. If you’re deep in the Google ecosystem, Gemini models have a lot of context on you already. Google’s latest Google Labs experiment, known as CC, aims to expand that kind of … Read more