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Christopher was sick of being ghosted by AI recruiters. So he unleashed ChatGPT on his robot interviewer.

Believe it or not, the Tesla Cybercab is coming. Nearly two years after Elon Musk first unveiled the gold-tinted, gull-wing-door sporting, steering-wheel-free, two-seaters as the future of Tesla's autonomy efforts, the company is finally putting them into operation as part of its robotaxi service in Austin, Texas. Public rides are here, and as Musk fans […]

The New York Times has prepared some exclusive goodies for its subscribers: a weekly drop of bonus puzzles based on the publication's popular games. Five to six new puzzles will be released every Wednesday, each featuring "a twist" on games like Wordle, Strands, Connections, and Crossword that are designed to keep puzzleheads playing with fresh […]

When Google ignominiously exited the European thermostat market last year, it pointed its customers to Tado. This week, the German-based smart home company is launching its Smart Thermostat X (2nd gen), and aiming to attract European Nest users who haven't already jumped ship. Google shutting down the servers for its 1st- and 2nd-gen thermostats drove […]

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced a new policy today that will ban younger schoolchildren from using AI in classrooms. The one-year moratorium, effective in the 2026-2027 school year, will impact about 600,000 public school students in 2-K through eighth grade and is being introduced alongside additional limits on digital devices and a […]

OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman are facing 30 new lawsuits that accuse them of providing "substantial assistance and encouragement" to the suspect in Canada's Tumbler Ridge school shooting, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new wave of lawsuits was filed in a California federal court on Wednesday by the students, teachers, and the principal […]

Verge readers can get a discount on Belkin’s SoundForm Mini 2 wireless headphones. The kid-focused on-ear headphones feature an 85-decibel volume limit and easy controls, and a mode that lets them beam audio (wired or wirelessly) to a second pair without extra hardware. Readers can use the code VERGE25OFF to save 25 percent on up […]

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. My mom was a dramatic woman prone to overreacting. When I was a snotty teen, I told her she needed […]

US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema declined the Justice Department's request to make Google sell off parts of its ad tech business, accepting milder remedies to restore competition to markets it illegally monopolized for years. Brinkema said she would adopt most of the behavioral changes proposed by the parties, with some modifications. But those won't […]

MrBeast will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos as part of a multi-year partnership with Google. The deal will kick off with a video featuring Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson turning to Gemini for wilderness survival advice: First up on September 5 is a new MrBeast video following Jimmy and his crew […]

Edelson PC is filing 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge shooting, escalating claims to aiding and abetting and naming Chris Lehane, though evidence remains unconfirmed.

Uber is laying off about 3,300 people, or about 10% of its global headcount, in a bid to reduce management layers and invest more in its ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxi divisions.

Users will be able to access Express, Premiere, and Acrobat in Slack

The Nordic country says wearable camera headsets need to be regulated given their privacy risks.

This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023

Amazon is adding a scam-detection feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether suspicious emails, texts, and other messages actually came from the retailer.

HiddenLayer has raised a $100M Series B from Delta-v Capital, Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft's M12, Booz Allen Hamilton, and others.

How do you ship a software product with 0 lines of manually-written code? A friend asked me this today, and I realized I didn't have a simple answer. So I dug deeper. It turns out the answer is in how you engineer your harness. Wait now, what? What is harness engineering? There is a reason this is the most important trend right now around coding agents. The biggest question these days is how to validate AI-generated code without reading every single line. How do you make sure an ag...

In traditional software architectures, we almost instinctively reach for the CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) paradigm. We design an entity model, map it to a relational schema using an ORM, and use that identical abstraction to both alter state and display data on user dashboards. For simple applications, this works flawlessly. But as systems scale—both in business complexity and throughput, this dual-purpose model starts showing fractures: Write logic demands tight validation, tr...

We serve customers primarily in Australia, but we are now expanding to the USA. The timeline for launch is less than 2 months. This is now a race against time to design a multi-region routing system that fits all of our needs. Here is the story. Background Almost all of our customers were based in Oceania. We run our Kubernetes Cluster on GCP in Australia. Go microservices, federated GraphQL, gRPC services. 2 products - Tutoring and Schools. All designed for Australia. Then we...

Your coding agent is good at reading code. Point Claude Code or Cursor at a repo and it will figure out the language, the framework, the build command — it just costs you tokens and a few tool calls every session to re-derive what it forgot. What it can't read is the part that isn't in the code: who the project is for,and why it exists. So it guesses. Confidently, in the same tone it uses for the facts it actually verified. I wanted to see how big that gap is on real projects, so I ...

Warum Bill Gates’ Konzept „Human Reserved“ theoretisch sinnvoll ist – aber in der Praxis scheitern könnte Künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik verändern die Arbeitswelt grundlegend. Bill Gates warnt davor, dass zahlreiche Tätigkeiten in Bereichen wie Recht, Kundenservice, Gesundheitswesen, Softwareentwicklung und Industrie innerhalb des nächsten Jahrzehnts automatisiert werden könnten. Sein vorgeschlagener Gegenentwurf ist das, was er „Human Reserved“ nennt: Bestimmte Aufgaben sollen weit...

TVL Trend Analysis & Liquidity Risk Assessment: Gate Target Protocol : Gate (TVL: $6646.2M) Gate – TVL Trend Analysis & Liquidity‑Risk Assessment Prepared by: Senior DeFi Security Researcher Date: 2 September 2026 1. Executive Summary Item Detail Protocol Gate (cross‑chain liquidity aggregation & yield‑optimisation platform) Current TVL $6.646 B (Ethereum + L2s – Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync, Base) TVL Gr...

Developer Relations has traditionally been built around one primary audience: Developers. We write docs for them. We build tutorials for them. We create SDK examples, maintain GitHub repositories, run communities, and answer implementation questions. But AI coding assistants are changing the developer journey. The developer may now ask an AI agent to research a library, understand an API, write an integration, or debug an error. That means your documentation can become an in...

AI 安全对齐：当模型能力超过人类判断能力时，我们如何确保它「做对的事」？ GPT-4、Claude、Gemini——这些模型已经强大到让它们的内部决策变得不透明。当我们无法可靠地判断模型的「好坏」时，如何训练它做出正确的选择？本文系统梳理 AI 安全对齐的技术路线与开放挑战。 一、为什么安全对齐是 AI 发展的核心瓶颈 对齐（Alignment）问题的本质是 价值对齐（Value Alignment） ：如何确保高度智能的系统追求的目标，与人类利益和价值观一致？ 这个问题的严峻性来自三个维度： 能力超越 ：前沿模型的规划能力和知识已超过大多数人类，无法靠直觉判断其输出的好坏 不透明性 ：数十亿参数构成的非线性系统，其内部决策机制对人类来说是黑箱 目标漂移（Goal Drift） ：优化过程中，模型可能找到一个「在形式上满足指标，但在精神上偏离意图」的捷径 科幻作家 Nick Bostrom 提出的 「回形针制造机」思想实验 （如果一个超级智能被赋予「制造尽可能多回形针」的目标，它可能为...

The outage that teaches you deployment A service passes every test locally. It fails in staging because the API calls localhost:5432 for Postgres — but Postgres is in another container, reachable only as db:5432 . This is not a Docker problem. It is a boundary problem: your code assumed an environment it does not own. Engineers who have shipped on AWS Lambda already avoid a class of these mistakes. They never SSH into a function to hot-fix. They inject config at deploy time. They ...

Upgrading Juniper MX Networks from 100GbE to 400GbE: What Engineers Need to Know Moving a production network from 100 Gigabit Ethernet to 400 Gigabit Ethernet sounds simple on paper: Replace a 100G interface with a 400G interface and get four times the bandwidth. In a real carrier or data-center network, however, the interface is only one part of the equation. The router's forwarding silicon, switch fabric, midplane, power system, cooling, optics, software release, slot selection, r...

Ever Wondered How Netflix Never Seems to Go Down? Think about this for a second. Netflix has over 260 million subscribers worldwide. People are watching shows in Tokyo, London, Lagos, and New York — all at the same time. And yet, when was the last time Netflix crashed on you? Now think about your favourite food delivery app. You open it, order food, track your driver in real time, and get a notification the moment your burger arrives. All of that happens in seconds. Behind all of this ...

I spent years supporting WorkMail and SES at AWS, and even became a Subject Matter Expert in both services. Here's how I moved my own mail off it, start to finish... and got sentimental doing it. Level: 200 (intermediate). Assumes you're comfortable with the AWS CLI, IAM roles, S3, and KMS. Amazon WorkMail is winding down... AWS has announced end of support for March 31, 2027. If you're running a mailbox or two on WorkMail, now is a good time to think about where that mail is going to l...

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