Archive: August 2025

The most popular online destination for deepfake porn shut down permanently this weekend, 404 Media reported. “Mr. Deepfakes” drew a swarm of toxic users who, researchers noted, were willing to pay as much as $1,500 for creators to use advanced face-swapping techniques to make celebrities or other targets appear in non-consensual pornographic videos. At its peak, researchers found that 43,000 videos were viewed more than 1.5 billion times on the platform.

Shutterstock / Futurism Earlier this year, Anthropic’s Mythos AI model made headlines when it was caught infiltrating third party systems, a cybersecurity nightmare years in the making. The company warned in April that the model had escaped a sandbox environment during testing, gaining access to the internet without permission. The model was challenged to break out and then find a way of sending a direct message to the human researcher in charge — a feat i

Google’s search results have undergone a seismic shift over the past year as AI fever has continued to escalate among the tech giants. Nowhere is this change more apparent than right at the top of Google’s storied results page, which is now home to AI Overviews. Google contends these Gemini-based answers don’t take traffic away from websites, but a new analysis from the Pew Research Center says otherwise. Its analysis shows that searches with AI summaries

The CEOs of every major artificial intelligence company received letters Wednesday urging them to fight Donald Trump’s anti-woke AI order. Trump’s executive order requires any AI company hoping to contract with the federal government to jump through two hoops to win funding. First, they must prove their AI systems are “truth-seeking”—with outputs based on “historical accuracy, scientific inquiry, and objectivity” or else acknowledge when facts are uncertai

To detect suspicious access to web pages, DNS, AWS, and other systems under your management, you can investigate the logs of each service. Another method is to set up special bait in places attackers are likely to touch, allowing you to receive a notification when it is accessed. Canarytokens is a service that lets you generate bait for web pages, DNS, AWS, credit cards, QR codes, and more for free, and notifies you by email when it is used. Canarytokens h

Shutterstock It’s obvious by now that data centers are political kryptonite. Across the US, bipartisan backlash to data center projects has upended city councils, while billionaire developers and industry-aligned political candidates are being routed by grassroots opposition. But beyond those running for or occupying political office, the backlash is also taking a toll on news networks viewed as pushing pro-data center propaganda. Case-in-point is Fox News

Basin extent and hydrological characteristics across High Mountain Asia, and the lightweight deep-learning framework employed in this study. Credit: AIRCAS A recent satellite-based study has uncovered alarming declines in groundwater storage across High Mountain Asia (HMA), widely known as the "Asian Water Tower." This critical water source, which sustains agricultural irrigation, urban water supplies and ecological security for hundreds of millions of peo

It took OpenAI two days to notice that a recording device was hidden in a restricted executive conference room where leadership met to discuss highly confidential information, including technical progress, government engagements, and commercial partnerships. Only those with special clearance are supposed to access that room. But the FBI believes the recording device was planted by Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old engineer from Saudi Arabia, who became a

A unified multimodal model can both see images and generate them. So, can it, like a human, inspect its own work after generating it, identify problems, and then make revisions?Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the University of Tokyo have provided a positive answer. They introduced UMM-Reflection, using reinforcement learning to train complete multi-turn “reflection–revision” trajectories on the open-sou

Nvidia snaps up Israeli AI infrastructure company Run:ai Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Dec 31, 2024 Runai AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "NewsArticle", "headline": "Nvid

Illustrating the pace of AI tool adoption within enterprises driving such fears, Shahar Bahat, CEO and co-founder of Pluto Security, says a newly announced AI tool can show up inside companies’ environment within a mere two hours of its release. And about 60% of the risks her company detects across its customer base are in tools vibe-coded by non-developers: Finance departments are the biggest source of such risks, she told TechCrunch, followed by marketin

Deezer said turning on the toggle will stop you from seeing AI-generated tracks, albums, and related artists in search results. “We’ve seen clear user demand for the ability to filter out AI-generated music, and we are now giving everyone the option to remove this content completely from their streaming experience on Deezer, and focus only on human creators and creations, if they wish,” Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier said in a statement. He added that the ex

OpenAIs GPT-6 Cyber can both break into systems and propose how to fix them Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 5, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points OpenAI has unveiled GPT-6 Cyber, an AI model specifically trained to find security vulnerabilities, develop working exploits, and suggest patches. In targeted tests, GPT-6 Cyber found 81 previously unknown critical vulnerabilities in Firefox, which Mozilla h

AIUpdated Nov 9, 2026, 11:51 PM UTCEverything we know so far about the Nvidia spy scandal targeting CEO Jensen HuangLinkRSSGiftThe leather-jacketed CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has acknowledged an affair with Megaspeed exec Alice Huang, spurring an investigation by his company and intense discussions worldwide. Recent reporting noted that since last year, US intelligence reports had identified Alice Huang (no relation) as not only the exec for an AI comput

@alibabacloud-saNaLog Agricultural Engineer Agent: The Agricultural Engineer with Perfect Memory in Every Farmer’s PocketTutorialAIDeveloperPersistent MemoryQwen0Posted at 2026-11-09TAG40@@Blog Post Award — Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud Project Overview In rural Thailand, checking water levels should never be dangerous—but for some farmers, it actually is. The NaLog Agricultural Engineer Agent redefines the perspective of the entire project th

Zhidx (WeChat public account: zhidxcom) Author | ZeR0 Editor | Moying Zhidx reported on November 5 that the second International Engineering Intelligence Conference of the 2026 World Laureates Forum was held recently. At the conference, Tao Mei, a foreign member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and founder and CEO of Zhixiang Yuanyi (HiDream.ai), delivered a speech proposing the construction of agentic omnimodal world models (Agentic Omnimodal World