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Guerilla bus stop ads are taking aim at Meta’s AI glasses, and the latest stunt involves a horrifying They Live-style transforming image of Kylie Jenner
A new guerrilla advertising campaign has appeared at bus stops criticising Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses, with the latest instalment featuring a poster of Kylie Jenner designed to visually “transform” in a manner reminiscent of John Carpenter’s cult film They Live. The stunt is part of a wider, ongoing series of unofficial street ads targeting Meta’s…
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AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting
Cybersecurity firm Barracuda has found that a decades-old email trick called “text salting” is successfully fooling some AI-powered spam filters, allowing large volumes of phishing messages to reach inboxes undetected. The technique, long used to defeat traditional secure email gateways, works by hiding harmless-looking filler words within a malicious email in ways invisible to human…
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Lorde Slams ‘Inaccurate’ Spotify AI Song Descriptions of ‘Current Affairs’: ‘We Don’t Want This’
Lorde has publicly criticised Spotify’s new AI-generated “About the Song” feature after it produced an inaccurate description of her track “Current Affairs” from her 2025 album Virgin. In an Instagram Story, the singer argued that reducing songs to AI-generated interpretations at the point of listening restricts fans’ freedom to form their own meaning, and she…
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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them
Patreon has moved from politely asking AI companies not to scrape its content to actively blocking AI training bots, working with Cloudflare to enforce the crackdown. The shift matters because it marks a hardening of stance among content platforms towards generative AI firms, reflecting growing frustration that voluntary opt-out signals are being ignored while newer…
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No, Modern Warfare 4’s Gunny loadout assistant isn’t a chatbot, but its developer is using AI elsewhere
PC Gamer reports that Modern Warfare 4’s Gunny loadout assistant is not a chatbot, despite possible assumptions that it uses conversational AI. The distinction matters because it clarifies how the game’s support feature works while highlighting wider concerns about AI’s growing role in game development. The article says Gunny is intended to help players choose…
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Apple dethrones Nvidia to regain title of world’s most valuable company
Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to reclaim the title of world’s most valuable company, marking a notable shift in investor sentiment towards artificial intelligence stocks. Nvidia had held the top spot for nearly a year after becoming the first company to pass a $5tn valuation in October, but its shares fell 3.5% while Apple’s held…
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OpenAI’s collab mini keeb has optional ‘yeet’ and ‘yolo’ buttons, which is totally lit my fellow rizz lords, no cap
The article text supplied for this piece consists almost entirely of PC Gamer’s website navigation, membership and newsletter sign-up boilerplate, with no actual article body about the product. Based on the headline, the piece appears to cover a compact (“mini”) mechanical keyboard produced in collaboration with OpenAI, which includes optional novelty keys programmed with internet…
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No product? No problem. This Disrupt 2026 session shows how to get pre-seed funding with conviction, storytelling
It’s not just you: AI startups are taking in a huge amount of seed funding, and in the process making things harder for anyone looking for funding even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders now being held to seed-stage…
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Free tool helps families save money by using food already in their kitchens
A 17-year-old from Virginia, Smit Kothari, has launched Grocery Genius, a free AI-powered website designed to reduce household food waste and cut grocery spending by helping people use ingredients they already have. The tool matters at a time when many families are looking for ways to stretch food budgets and minimise waste, offering a simple,…
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Engadget Podcast: Is Siri AI actually useful in iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate?
Apple has released public betas for iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate and its other upcoming software, prompting the latest Engadget Podcast to weigh in on whether the new Siri AI features actually deliver useful functionality. Hosts Devindra Hardawar and Nathan Ingraham conclude that Siri AI feels genuinely helpful and less intrusive than rivals such as…