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Browser ransomware turns Chrome folder access into an Android photo trap

A random web page should not feel as risky as installing a shady app. That is what makes this browser-only ransomware technique so uncomfortable. It can use Chrome’s own File System Access API to ...

How I set OpenAI API usage limits to stop agent overspending and other AI billing nightmares

OpenAI API costs can spiral when agents run wild. Here's how to set spend limits, enable hard caps, and avoid surprise AI ...
The New York Times

A Scientific Achievement That’s Totally Random

Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can. By Alexander Nazaryan Researchers in Switzerland ...
9to5Mac

OpenAI says ChatGPT’s memory feature is getting smarter and coming to free users

First, OpenAI explains how ChatGPT’s “dreaming” feature that helps fill in the blanks around memories automatically is getting an upgrade. “Today we’re beginning to roll out a more capable and ...
Dexerto

X user tricks Grok into sending them $200,000 in crypto using morse code

An X user managed to trick AI chatbot Grok into sending around $200,000 worth of crypto after exploiting its link with an automated trading bot. The incident involved Grok and ‘Bankrbot’, two AI ...
IEEE

Many-User Multiple Access With Random User Activity: Achievability Bounds and Efficient Schemes

Abstract: We study the Gaussian multiple access channel with random user activity, in the regime where the number of users is proportional to the code length. The receiver may know some statistics ...
Mashable

You can now change your Gmail username. Here’s how to do it.

Google is now letting users in the U.S. change their Gmail address. Here's how. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images Google first unveiled Gmail to the public on April 1, 2004. Now, 22 ...
Harvard Business Review

What the Best AI Users Do Differently—and How to Level Up All of Your Employees

Organizations have moved quickly to put AI tools in the hands of their employees. But for all of this investment, many leaders struggle to assess how it’s going. Is AI measurably improving the quality ...
Total Pro Sports

Johnny Manziel Gives Random ‘X’ User The Secret To Passing a Drug Test

Manziel is known to have dabbled during his playing days and will tell you so himself. He’s in a much better place nowadays, although there’s that ‘College GameDay’ incident… The former Texas A&M ...
TechCrunch

Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users

Google’s AI chatbot Gemini has surpassed 750 million monthly active users (MAUs), according to the company’s fourth-quarter 2025 earnings. This figure illustrates the rapid consumer adoption of Gemini ...
komonews

Video shows random attack on 75-year-old woman in downtown Seattle

SEATTLE — Newly-released videos show the moments a man attacked a woman at random outside the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle earlier this month. Fale Vaigalepa Pea, 42, was armed with a ...