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Stop shaming people for using AI. Start organizing to prevent our obsolescence | Garrison Lovely
Garrison Lovely argues that opposition to AI should focus less on shaming individuals for using it and more on organising against companies pursuing systems designed to replace human labour. He says the industry’s stated ambition to build artificial general intelligence amounts to creating a machine capable of doing almost any work that can be done…
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Marshall launches portable Bromley 150 speaker with 40-hour battery life
Marshall has launched the Bromley 150, its smallest and most portable party speaker to date, weighing just 14 pounds and roughly half the size of the existing Bromley 450 model. The speaker maintains Marshall’s distinctive aesthetic with front-facing lights and classic branding whilst offering genuine portability for outdoor events. The Bromley 150 delivers true stereo…
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Ro Khanna urges US and Chinese AI firms to negotiate safety treaty
Representative Ro Khanna, the top Democrat on the House Select Committee on China, is urging the US government and Chinese AI companies to negotiate a treaty aimed at preventing artificial intelligence from becoming uncontrollably dangerous. In letters sent to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and three major Chinese AI firms—DeepSeek, Alibaba, and…
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Burnham seeks to mend Labour’s strained ties with business leaders
Andy Burnham, now Prime Minister, is attempting to rebuild strained relations between the Labour government and the business community at the party’s annual conference in Liverpool. A year earlier, Burnham had upset the City of London with remarks about Britain being too reliant on bond markets; now, the government is actively reassuring corporate leaders and…
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Ex-IBM security chiefs launch offensive cyber firm with $7m backing
Two former leaders of IBM’s X-Force Red team have launched RemoteThreat, an offensive cybersecurity company backed by $7 million in pre-seed funding. It aims to help companies and US government operators plan and carry out cyber operations at AI speed, as the same technology could enable attackers to create and deploy sophisticated malware more quickly.…
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“A quite beautiful compromise”: The LEGO Skylines devs did consider brick by brick building, but decided it was too much fuss for players
The developers of *LEGO Skylines* considered letting players build structures brick by brick, but decided the process would be too laborious with a mouse and keyboard, especially in a game that also requires managing a city. Instead, players place template buildings and customise them with features such as hot tubs, flowerbeds and letterboxes. Producer Joanna…
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10 Near-Perfect Sci-Fi Books That Everyone Must Read at Least Once
The article presents ten science-fiction novels as near-essential reading, arguing that the genre’s strongest works use imagined worlds to explore enduring questions about people and society. It highlights books that have shaped science fiction as well as works praised for taking a compelling idea and developing it with unusual depth. The supplied excerpt discusses *The…
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US campaigns report millions in spending on artificial intelligence tools
US campaign finance disclosures show that political campaigns are increasingly paying for AI tools, despite candidates saying little publicly about their use. Since 2020, federal candidates and campaigns have reported at least $17m in spending with AI vendors, across 523 campaigns; the issue may be politically sensitive, as a 2025 Pew survey found more than…
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Dutch police detain Amsterdam man over suspected ShinyHunters ties
Dutch police arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man on suspicion of links to the ShinyHunters cybercrime group, and say he is also being investigated over an alleged plot to arrange two murders abroad. Information about the planned killings was found on his laptop, and investigators say there are indications he may have ordered them. He is…
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Meta’s AI breaches privacy; grandmother wrongly jailed by facial recognition
Meta’s shopping AI shared a seller’s address without consent, leading to an arranged visit. Meanwhile, a Tennessee grandmother spent six months behind bars after a flawed facial recognition misidentification.