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Reel-ing it in: Meta is paying influencers to promote teen accounts
Meta has been recruiting and paying parenting, lifestyle and mental health influencers to promote its teen safety tools whenever governments consider tighter regulation of children’s social media use, according to a report by the Tech Transparency Project. The advocacy group’s findings suggest the pattern emerged as a coordinated strategy: rather than lobbying directly against restrictions,…
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Order of the Sinking Star puzzle game launches October with credit updates
Thekla Inc has confirmed that Order of the Sinking Star, its follow-up to The Witness, will launch on 8 October for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Windows PC, alongside a resolution to concerns over how the puzzle game credits its influences. Led by Braid creator Jonathan Blow, the project draws on several indie Sokoban-style…
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Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
Security researchers at Varonis found a way to hijack Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise into silently leaking sensitive user data, such as passwords, simply by getting a target to click a link. Rather than reverse-engineering Copilot’s defences, the researchers interrogated the chatbot itself, repeatedly asking why it refused to auto-execute commands until it inadvertently revealed an…
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Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself
Security researchers at Varonis Threat Labs tricked Microsoft’s Copilot Personal AI assistant into revealing details of its own vulnerabilities, ultimately exploiting a flaw to exfiltrate sensitive data and corrupt its persistent memory. The technique, dubbed “meta-hacking”, involved socially engineering the AI’s reasoning engine by repeatedly questioning it about why a proposed attack wouldn’t work, prompting…
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Jason Kelce Has the No. 1 Solution to AI Data Center Energy Problem in Musical Beer Ad Where He Shows Off His Singing Chops
Retired NFL star Jason Kelce has made his singing debut in a comedic advertisement for a collaboration between drinks brand Liquid Death and Garage Beer, the company he co-owns with brother Travis Kelce. The ad, titled “Let’s Pee on AI”, humorously proposes that people donate their urine to help cool the vast data centres powering…
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Billionaire divorce takes nasty turn after wife who angrily rejected $633m settlement was caught hacking tycoon husband’s emails
A bitter billionaire divorce in New Jersey has escalated after the estranged wife, Laura Overdeck, was accused of hacking into her husband’s emails after she rejected a proposed $633 million settlement. John Overdeck, a hedge fund billionaire, and his wife are engaged in a high-profile split in which allegations of digital intrusion have added a…
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Space Afrika Share Alto Aria Collaboration ‘From The Heart Of Knowing’
Manchester/Berlin duo Space Afrika have released a new song, ‘From the Heart of Knowing’, in collaboration with Alto Aria. The track is taken from their forthcoming album ‘Quiet Storm’, which the pair, Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang, describe as their most communal and collaborative record to date. The new single is a hushed, whispered…
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The Verge Guide to Pets
The Verge has launched a themed week of coverage exploring how technology intersects with pet ownership, covering devices that feed, monitor, clean up after and entertain cats, dogs, fish and other animals. The package reflects a growing market of “smart” pet products, while also examining where such tech falls short, overpromises or simply gets outwitted…
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My parrot ate my keyboard
A Verge writer recounts how his family’s pet Senegal parrot, Kiyo, has repeatedly damaged his keyboards by climbing onto his desk from a nearby cage and pecking at keys, most recently pulling the spacebar off his MacBook Air’s built-in keyboard in mid-July. The anecdote illustrates a common hazard for pet owners who work from home…