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Andy Cohen Calls Out Paul W. Downs Over ‘Hacks’ Joke At His Expense
Andy Cohen playfully challenged Hacks co-creator Paul W. Downs on Watch What Happens Live over a Season 5 joke that referred to Cohen. The exchange highlighted the show’s irreverent humour as its five-season run has now ended, while also drawing attention to its strong awards recognition. Cohen played a clip in which Jean Smart’s Deborah…
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Claude Cowork can now run in a Chrome sidebar
Anthropic has added Claude Cowork to its Claude for Chrome extension, allowing users to run the AI assistant from Chrome’s sidebar. The update matters because it makes Claude’s browser-based use more continuous: conversations are saved to history, and tasks can move between the Claude app and Chrome. The feature is available immediately to Max and…
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Twitch under fire for new gen AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, says it’s on by default because ‘if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in’
Twitch is facing criticism over a new generative AI training system that uses streamers’ data for Amazon, with the feature reportedly enabled by default. The controversy centres on consent, after Twitch reportedly said an opt-in approach would fail because few creators would choose to participate, raising concerns about control over creators’ content and data. The…
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Trump is being sued for charging for faster access to Truth Social posts
The Freedom of the Press Foundation and The Intercept are suing President Donald Trump over Truth Social’s paid Truth API, which gives subscribers faster access to his posts. They argue that charging for earlier access to presidential announcements breaches the First and Fifth Amendments and disadvantages organisations that do not pay. The case matters because…
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The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
Designers Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio have created ShieldFont, a typeface intended to make webpages readable to people while presenting AI scrapers with misleading text in the underlying HTML. It is designed as a practical opt-out for publishers concerned about unauthorised AI training, potentially reducing the value of data collected by bots that ignore restrictions.…
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Amazon Game Studios Divests MMOs ‘Lost Ark,’ ‘Throne and Liberty’ in Strategy Shift
Amazon Game Studios is handing Western publishing and live-operation responsibilities for the MMOs “Lost Ark” and “Throne and Liberty” back to their original developers, Smilegate and NC respectively. The move reflects Amazon’s shift away from further investment in MMOs towards planned AAA games, including “Tomb Raider”, and expansion of its Luna cloud-gaming service. Amazon says…
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Millions in UK and Europe left wowed by once-in-a-generation solar eclipse
Millions of people across the UK and Europe watched the most dramatic solar eclipse seen from Britain in nearly 30 years. The event mattered because it offered a rare shared view of a major astronomical phenomenon, with partial coverage across the UK and totality visible in parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain. In most of…
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‘Near-autonomous’ AI agents attack Taiwan’s nuclear safety agency
Suspected Chinese cyber operators reportedly used publicly available AI tools in a “near-autonomous” campaign against Taiwanese government systems, later targeting the nuclear safety agency, suppliers and energy companies. The case matters because it suggests AI agents can coordinate reconnaissance, credential attacks and data theft at speed, potentially widening the impact of a single intrusion. Dream,…
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Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
A supply-chain attack on the open-source AI development tool LiteLLM exposed terabytes of sensitive credentials from thousands of organisations, including major technology, industrial and financial firms. The incident matters because the stolen material could enable unauthorised access to cloud systems, code repositories, software pipelines and AI services. The compromised LiteLLM releases were available through PyPI…