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After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool
Rippling has launched AI Spend Console, a tool designed to help employers monitor and limit corporate spending on artificial intelligence while assessing whether it improves staff productivity. The product emerged after the HR software company found it was spending millions of dollars on AI tokens at a rate that threatened to consume a large share…
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Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks
Polish security researchers Robert Kruczek and Kamil Szczurowski found widespread weaknesses across the country’s public-facing websites, affecting courts, hospitals, airports and government bodies. Their findings matter because easily exploited flaws could allow attackers to disrupt or take over essential public services, at a time when Poland is strengthening defences after suspected Russian cyberattacks on energy…
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One of the Best Sci-Fi Shows of All Time Is This Near-Perfect 94% Masterpiece
Humans is presented as a thoughtful British science-fiction drama that explores artificial intelligence through everyday domestic life rather than apocalyptic conflict. The series follows a family whose purchase of a human-like robot, or “synth”, exposes existing tensions and broadens into a story about conscious machines, identity and rights. Its significance lies in its compassionate, morally…
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The Best Otome Games To Play That Aren’t Love And Deepspace
The article presents alternative otome games for players looking beyond Love and Deepspace, covering romance-focused titles with different settings and styles. – It highlights games spanning fantasy, mystery, historical drama and supernatural stories. – The recommendations include both mobile live-service games and more self-contained visual novels. – The list emphasises differences in gameplay, such as…
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Fenix Flexin isn’t even denying using AI to make ‘Rubberz’ anymore
LA rapper Fenix Flexin has appeared to acknowledge using AI in his 1980s-style song ‘Rubberz’, after previously rejecting allegations that the track involved AI. The admission matters because it highlights growing disputes over transparency in AI-generated music and artists’ claims about how their work was made. Producer Medasin had alleged that the song was created…
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Karol G Says Her Power Ballad With Bruno Mars ‘Expressed Exactly What I Was Feeling’
Karol G has released her album No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto, including the English-language duet “Still” with Bruno Mars. She said the power ballad captured exactly what she was feeling personally, stressing that recording in English was a natural creative choice rather than a strategic move. “Still” is an ’80s-inspired synthwave ballad about enduring…
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The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon’s shadow
In June 1973, eight scientists used the Concorde 001 prototype to follow a total solar eclipse across Africa, extending their observation of totality to a record 74 minutes. The flight demonstrated how a supersonic aircraft could effectively chase the Moon’s shadow, providing far longer conditions for scientific study than were possible from the ground. The…
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Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough
Roku has launched Fairground AI Creator TV, a 24-hour free, advertising-supported channel carrying AI-generated videos from startup Fairground. The move gives Fairground a much larger distribution platform, but The Verge’s review argues that the channel’s uneven, low-polish programming offers little of the discovery value usually associated with FAST channels. Roku added the channel alongside feeds…
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Big Walk patch addresses voice volume complaints with restraint: ‘We consider it an important part of the game’s design that you can only hear players who are close to you’
The provided text does not include the article’s main body, so its full claims and details cannot be verified. From the headline, Big Walk has released a patch responding to complaints about voice-chat volume while preserving its proximity-chat system, which only lets players hear nearby teammates. The developers appear to regard limited voice range as…
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AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription
Vercel, Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft and OpenAI have backed Agent Plugins 1.0, a proposed common format for packaging AI-agent tools and skills. The aim is to make these capabilities portable between compatible platforms, reducing the need for developers to rewrite integrations for each agent product. The specification places a plugin’s manifest, task instructions and MCP server…