Amazon Has the Numbers to Keep Making Rings of Power at Scale

Amazon Has the Numbers to Keep Making Rings of Power at Scale

Considering the big-ticket investment Amazon Prime Video has made in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power so far, it’s a little surprising the streamer hasn’t officially confirmed a third season is on the way, especially after all the dangling threads left at the recent end of season two. But the decision-makers appear … Read more

Leaked Docs From Far-Right Militias Show History of Voter Intimidation Plans

Leaked Docs From Far-Right Militias Show History of Voter Intimidation Plans

A trove of leaked internal messages and documents from the militia American Patriots Three Percent—also known as AP3—reveals how the group coordinated with election denial groups as part of a plan to conduct paramilitary surveillance of ballot boxes during the midterm elections in 2022. This information was leaked to Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), a … Read more

How fake Hurricane Milton AI images can have real consequences

How fake Hurricane Milton AI images can have real consequences

AI-generated images and videos about Hurricane Milton might not just be annoying clickbait. They could also be connected to scams and disinformation campaigns. In the aftermath of the category 3 hurricane that devastated parts of Florida, social media platforms like X, TikTok, and Facebook have been inundated with AI-generated content. Some AI-generated images and videos … Read more

The Internet Archive is still down but will return in ‘days, not weeks’

The Internet Archive is still down but will return in ‘days, not weeks’

The Internet Archive will come back within “days” following a cyberattack that brought down the organization’s vast digital library and the Wayback Machine, according to an update from founder Brewster Kahle. It’s been struggling due to a data breach and DDoS attack earlier this week that revealed the email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, … Read more

Instagram blames some moderation issues on human reviewers, not AI

Instagram blames some moderation issues on human reviewers, not AI

Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Friday addressed the moderation issues that saw Instagram and Threads users losing access to their accounts, having posts disappear, and more, saying that the company “found mistakes” that it’s attributing to human moderators. The company did not initially blame faulty AI systems, as many believed would be the case. In … Read more

Motorola Edge (2025) wishlist: All the features I want to see

Motorola Edge (2025) wishlist: All the features I want to see

Ryan Whitwam / Android Authority While the Motorola Edge Plus series has received a lot of praise from Android Authority and other tech reviewers, the mid-range Edge has often had a more mixed reception. We gave it positive marks in 2023, but we had more complaints about the follow-up Motorola Edge (2024). Even if I … Read more

European Govt Air-Gapped Systems Breached Using Custom Malware

European Govt Air-Gapped Systems Breached Using Custom Malware

An APT hacking group known as GoldenJackal has successfully breached air-gapped government systems in Europe using two custom toolsets to steal sensitive data, like emails, encryption keys, images, archives, and documents. From a report: According to an ESET report, this happened at least two times, one against the embassy of a South Asian country in … Read more

Are Tesla’s robot prototypes AI marvels or remote-controlled toys?

Are Tesla’s robot prototypes AI marvels or remote-controlled toys?

Two years ago, Tesla’s Optimus prototype was an underwhelming mess of exposed wires that could only operate in a carefully controlled stage presentation. Last night, Tesla’s “We, Robot” event featured much more advanced Optimus prototypes that could walk around without tethers and interact directly with partygoers. It was an impressive demonstration of the advancement of … Read more

Win an Apple Watch Series 10 and Nylon Band From Southern Straps

Win an Apple Watch Series 10 and Nylon Band From Southern Straps

For this week’s giveaway, we’ve teamed up with Southern Straps to give MacRumors readers a chance to win one of Apple’s new Apple Watch Series 10 models and a Southern Straps band to go along with it. Southern Straps has been producing high-quality bands for the Apple Watch for close to 10 years, and the … Read more