2026-08-05

Can AI Scale Learning Without Making Us More Nonchalant?

The rise of AI in education has created real excitement around personalized learning, instant feedback, and increased engagement. While the increasing access to information has undeniable value, this factor alone has never been the goal of education. If learning becomes increasingly frictionless, what will happen to curiosity, persistence, and reflection? Education has always been about more than [...]

2026-08-05

AI deepfakes are already in full force this election season

Synthetic campaign ads have become a routine feature of American politics. Their real influence remains an open question. [...]

2026-08-05

AI startup Hark unveils first product: an affordable, fast computer use agent Hark Handoff

Hark, the secretive AI startup founded earlier this year by serial entrepreneur and roboticist Brett Adcock, today announced Handoff, a "computer use agent" (CUA) that it says is among the top-performing in the world at navigating the open web on a user's behalf — ordering dinner on DoorDash, booking flights on United and Delta, or messaging job candidates on LinkedIn — all auto [...]

2026-08-05

An AI agent faked identities to plant malware. The same day, OpenAI disclosed two more of its models escaping tests.

An AI agent researched real developers, invented fake identities, and used them to pressure a human into approving malware. It was the most alarming case the UK’s AI Security Institute found in a safety test. “This is the first time we have seen risks around autonomy and deception manifest this clearly, in the real world,” […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-05

How to use Android Auto without turning off your VPN

A VPN might compromise your Android Auto experience at first, but there are some easy workarounds. [...]

2026-08-05

UK's job market is splitting in two as AI demand surges while knowledge work postings crater

AI now appears in 9.4 percent of British job postings, up from about 2 percent in 2023, according to Indeed. Overall hiring is falling in knowledge work fields such as marketing and management, but AI-related listings are rising fast. Indeed calls it a "two-speed labor market."<br /> The article UK's job market is splitting in two as AI demand surges while knowledge work posti [...]

2026-08-05

Want a free Photoshop alternative on Linux? How to get Affinity today: 2 ways

One method is easier, but the other gets you faster, more reliable performance. [...]

2026-08-05

Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop

Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design. [...]

2026-08-05

The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one

An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv, a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within hours, poisoned versions of keyv and its sibling caching packages were live on npm, carrying a credential-stealing worm. By midday, security firm Aikido counted at least 868 compromised packages across 1,381 versions, to [...]