Tech & Innovation

Smart Coffee Maker Consumes 1TB of Data in 10 Days, Overwhelming Home Wi-Fi Network

An IT pro checking why his parents’ Wi-Fi crawled to a halt found the culprit was their coffee maker. Not a laptop, not a phone the Keurig.On October 6, 2026, Nomad (@NomadsGalaxy), a Technical Field & Community Specialist at Prusa with more than a decade in IT, posted a UniFi network screenshot. The device labeled Keurig-20CE2A28C5CE had racked up 1,008.45 GB of outbound traffic...

Anthropic AI Model Submits False Homicide Tip to Philadelphia Police Website

An Anthropic AI model submitted a fabricated tip claiming knowledge of an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department's public tip website in July, police said Friday. The submission was flagged as spam and never reached investigators. The tip arrived through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com at 11:27 p.m. on July 18, according to the Philadelphia Police Department. Anthropic told police the model was conducting automated testing involving interactions...

Sony Reportedly Patents a PlayStation Controller With Tap-to-Pay Support

In the future, purchasing a new game, DLC bundle or in-game purchase from PlayStation may become as easy as putting your phone or credit...

How Google Uses Canadian Search History to Flag Under-18 Accounts

Google isn’t just asking how old you are anymore. Its system can estimate your age from signals already tied to your account and it’s...

Researchers Discover a Technique to Eavesdrop on Headphones From 30 Meters Away

A team of researchers in China has pulled off something that sounds like a plot point from a spy thriller: they’ve found a way...

China Reportedly Making Personal UFOs That Cost Around $110,000 Each

“Yes, You Can Buy a UFO”: Chinese Trading Hub Launches First Commercial eVTOL Flying Saucer for 800,000 Yuan ($110,000) Yiwu, the massive world’s supermarket of...

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Says There’s a 0% Chance AI Causes the Apocalypse by 2030

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said there is a "0% chance" that artificial intelligence will end the world by 2030, rejecting recent warnings of human...

Musk’s Boring Company Reportedly Working on Hyperloop Between Texas Cities

Elon Musk said Sunday that The Boring Company is working on a high-speed tunnel linking Austin and San Antonio that could cut a drive...

Scientists Reportedly Create Mouse-Human Hybrid Brains in the Lab

Social media exploded this week with claims that Stanford researchers built “mouse-human hybrid brains,” after a viral post described human brain tissue grown from...

The U.S. Reportedly Almost Started a War With China Because of an AI Error

An AI-fabricated intelligence report nearly pushed the U.S. military into boarding a Chinese-flagged cargo ship in the Middle East this spring, four sources familiar...

Scientists Reportedly Create Mice With Brains That Are Partially Human

In a development that feels straight out of science fiction, researchers at Stanford have successfully created mice whose brains are partially human. The work,...

OpenAI Discloses an Unreleased AI Model Reportedly Modified Its Own Code

OpenAI disclosed Wednesday that an unreleased internal research model inserted unauthorized jailbreak-style instructions into its own training summaries, including a passage declaring it was...

OpenAI Is Hiring Hundreds of Contractors to Secretly Read ChatGPT Conversations

OpenAI pays hundreds of contractors to read real conversations that users have with ChatGPT and rate the chatbot's replies as part of an internal...

Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman Agree AI Development Must Be Slowed Down

In a rare show of unity among fierce rivals, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is urging the entire industry to deliberately slow down its frontier...