Are iPhones Dialing Up The Birth Dearth?
America’s fertility crisis has many causes, but a new study suggests the device that changed how we communicate may also have changed how we connect.
Chinese Firm To Deploy 100 Humanoid Robots To Households For Daily Chores
A robot doing backflips is impressive. A robot finding your socks, folding them, and putting them away is much harder.
"The Value Didn't Arrive": Bain Finds Cost-Savings From AI Are Falling Far Short Of Projections
“Companies that don’t validate their reinvestment math against what automation actually returned, rather than what it was supposed to return, are compounding risk rather than managing it.”
$150 Humanoid Robot House Cleaning Service Threatens To Undercut Maid Services
Migrant cleaners have been put on notice...
SpaceX Files For Nasdaq IPO Under Symbol SPCX
...If you build it (in space), they will come, right?
Meta Axes 8,000 Workers As Zuckerberg Admits AI Is Watching, Replacing Labor
"Translation: We're watching you, we told you as little as possible, and we did it on purpose."
AI Is Technology, Not a Product
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being treated as a standalone product category, but industry analysts argue that framing misses the bigger picture. AI, they say, is not a product in itself but a foundational technology — similar to electricity, the internet, or cloud computing.
A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it
YellowKey exploit bypasses BitLocker full volume encryption via USB stick and WinRE
“Too Dangerous to Release” — Or Just Too Expensive? The Real Reason Anthropic Is Hiding Its Most Powerful AI
In the first week of April 2026, Anthropic quietly made history — and then deliberately kept most people from accessing it.
Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users (2)
From reclainthenet.org.
Google has tied its next-generation reCAPTCHA system to Google Play Services on Android, meaning anyone running a de-Googled phone will automatically fail verification when the system decides to challenge them.
The requirement forces Android users to run Google’s proprietary app framework version 25.41.30 or higher just to prove they’re human.
How agentic AI works these days:
Figure CEO Says Humanoid Robots Could Soon Enter Homes For $600 A Month
"You can plug it into a wall outlet, and it'll go to its dock and charge. I want it to do the laundry every..."
Improving Performance of PHP Drupal sites - Part I
I have the fortune and the misfortune of having to scale my Drupal site immediately. It's getting more traffic than I can currently accommodate - and so the next scaling steps have to be taken.