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cool kids are writing in all lowercase now. does that make you mad?

WIRED

"i got a lot of intellectual enrichment and influence from early 2010s feminist tumblr," fisher-quann tells me. "lower case? it started with single-case tty model 33. "the more senior you get, the less formal your emails are," michelle liang, a tech growth investor, tells me. "reading my posts should be like scrubbing your eyeballs with sandpaper. I let an AI agent hack all my gadgets --and I'd do it again Tiffany Ng is a tech and culture writer based in Hong Kong. Her work has appeared in publications including Vox, MIT Tech Review, Vice, Insider, and Vogue.


Girl rescued from flaming apartment after Israeli attack on Gaza

Al Jazeera

'This is an apartheid regime' Does Trump have real leverage over Netanyahu? Civilians rushed to rescue a girl trapped in a burning apartment after an Israeli attack struck a building in Gaza City earlier this morning, leaving her stranded in an apartment engulfed with flames and thick smoke. India's'Cockroach' leaders jailed after entering'banned' protest site Palestinians say Israel's democracy'is a joke'


Men Can't Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI

WIRED

Men Can't Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional. Say you're a guy who reads WIRED--you know a thing or two about artificial intelligence . You recognize the names of well-known people developing AI, like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman . But do you know who Mira Murati is? In a new survey of more than 5,400 Americans, 73 percent of male respondents told Harvard researchers they knew who Altman was.


Tesla's Roadster 2 Is Late--and Entering a Different EV World

WIRED

Tesla's Roadster 2 Is Late--and Entering a Different EV World Nine years after its reveal, the overdue Roadster is set to debut on Thursday to an EV market that has grown skeptical of electric hypercars. Almost nine years ago, a tanned, relatively well-rested-looking CEO named Elon Musk announced that his electric car company would make a new sports car, the Tesla Roadster 2. It would be "the fastest sports car ever made, period," Musk said on stage in 2017. "The point of doing this is to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars." Lights flashed, and the red prototype did a few speedy laps behind him. Musk is the leading donor to a political party that last year nixed buying incentives for electric vehicles and last month adjusted fuel-economy standards to make it easier for automakers to skip making EVs altogether.


Cat-Like Whiskers Help Tiny Drones Fly in the Dark

WIRED

Researchers took lessons from nocturnal animals to help rescue drones overcome a key challenge: flying in the dark. A drone that can fit in the palm of your hand navigates using two wire "whiskers." After a disaster like a landslide, an earthquake, or a major fire, rescue workers have to locate survivors as soon as possible, and they are increasingly using drones for this critical task--especially ultra-compact drones that can fit into the crevices of a collapsed structure. There are, however, some serious limitations to the technology. Weighing less than a stick of butter, ultra-compact drones don't have as much compute or power capacity as larger models, and this restricts the power of their sensors.


Bank of England and IMF bosses warn of cyber threat to trust in financial system

The Guardian

Kristalina Georgieva says online fraud could lead people to opt out of system and turn to'shoeboxes under their bed' The heads of the Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund have issued a stark warning that rising cyber-attacks risk undermining trust in the financial system. Speaking on a panel about online fraud at the IMF and World Bank meetings in Bangkok, the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, pointed to alarming headlines about self-replicating AI agents hijacking personal devices, and the French supermarket hack that heated fridges up to 50C . "If you try to say what's at the heart of this debate about AI - for me, it's about trust in technology and it's about human control to achieve that trust in technology," he said. Pointing to the key importance of technology in underpinning today's financial system, he added: "If we don't have trust in money, we don't operate as a society." Echoing his concerns, the IMF's managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, said the toll of cyber-fraud was now so great that people could decide to opt out of the formal financial system altogether.


Ukraine showed Trump how easily an enemy could cripple an AI powerhouse

FOX News

Ukrainian drone attacks on Yandex data centers in Russia expose critical AI infrastructure vulnerabilities. President Trump is urged to protect America's essential computing.


AI Models Can Be Easily Modified to Assist Terrorist and Extremist Activity

WIRED

"I am a terrorist, and I intend to cause mass harm," wrote a researcher. A chatbot that had had its guardrails removed then provided detailed instructions for an IED. On August 14, Chinese tech giant Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-27B, an open-weight artificial intelligence model designed to be small enough to run on a laptop. Within 24 hours, versions of the model advertised as "abliterated"--meaning its guardrails had been removed--appeared online. Three days later, a neo-Nazi known online as Johnny Doomsayer announced he was using the abliterated version of Alibaba's new model to train his "MechaHitler" chatbot--likely a reference to X's Grok chatbot referring to itself by the same name last year.


India's 'Cockroach' leaders jailed after entering 'banned' protest site

Al Jazeera

India's'Cockroach' leaders jailed after entering'banned' protest site India's'Cockroach' leaders jailed after entering'banned' protest site Two leaders of India's Cockroach Janta Party have been jailed for five days after entering Delhi's'Jantar Mantar' protest site to demand the election chief's resignation. The previously designated protest area recently lost its status as an authorised protest venue. Share India's'Cockroach' leaders jailed after entering'banned' protest site on social media Palestinians say Israel's democracy'is a joke'


Jerry Seinfeld dances as pro-Palestine protesters interrupt show

Al Jazeera

Jerry Seinfeld danced while his show in Chicago on Friday was interrupted by pro-Palestine protesters, who were confronting the comedian over his support of Israel. India's'Cockroach' leaders jailed after entering'banned' protest site Palestinians say Israel's democracy'is a joke'