Ghost jobs are now so common that being able to identify them has become an essential part of the job search . In a recent survey, 86% of job hunters said they had encountered a posting that wasn’t tied to an active opening. More than a third (36%) said they had spent at least four hours pursuing openings that they now believe were not real. Even when an application leads to an interview, it doesn…
The year 2026 has been an expensive one for social media platforms. Since March, YouTube and Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, have settled or paid out in multiple lawsuits to the tune of more than $17 billion for allegedly acting negligently , deliberately designing their platforms to hook kids and misleading the public about safety and privacy. If these suits are any indication…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/java-news-roundup-oct12-2026/en/headerimage/java-news-roundup-image-1792439632913.jpg"/><p>This week's Java roundup for October 12th, 2026, features news highlighting: three OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 28; the October 2026 edition of Azul Payara; point releases of Gatherers4j, Yupiik Fusion, Google ADK for Java and Google ADK for Kotlin; and 38 CVEs r…
Bloomberg : Sources: Nscale is in talks for a second deal with Anthropic worth ~$45B to deliver 460MW of computing power at its West Virginia campus using Vera Rubin chips — Nscale Ltd., the AI cloud computing firm, is in talks to sell computing power to Anthropic PBC in a deal that could be worth about $45 billion …
A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”
Mixbook is the best card service I’ve tried, and the brand has multiple sales on holiday cards happening now.
Recently fixed vulnerabilities in the Plex Media Server are under active exploitation in attacks that, when successful, install malware, including cryptominers and residential proxy apps, a researcher said. Plex fixed four vulnerabilities at the start of last month. Three weeks later, published CVE designations revealed five vulnerabilities, with one of them carrying a severity rating of 8.6 out o…
YouTuber sends an AI avatar to attend an interview with an AI avatar Graham Dot Zip performs popular AI bot trolling pranks on his YouTube channel His AI avatar negotiated a salary over 50% lower than instructed A YouTube comedian has used an AI avatar to represent him in a job interview for an organization that uses AI avatars to conduct interviews. The results, shared online by YouTuber Graham D…
From 2023 to 2025, the share of S&P 500 companies disclosing AI as a risk jumped from 12% to 83%. But according to company filings, fewer than 3% of directors have AI expertise. And in the same research, just 23% of executives said their board was highly fluent in AI, and a quarter said their board had low fluency or none at all. As artificial intelligence spreads across the business, that leaves…
OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the malicious code.
The world’s first demonstration of a subsea geothermal power plant has taken place near an active underwater volcano almost a mile below the ocean surface. It generated less than 10 seconds of net-positive electricity but showed the technical feasibility of tapping another form of renewable energy underwater. The three-week test deployment of the 3-ton prototype power plant took place at the Axial…
Will the AI bubble burst? That’s the question on investors’ minds when an AI company announces anything from a rogue agent to an earnings report. Sure, AI companies continue to increase their revenue, but one lesser discussed metric has investors scared: a slowing growth rate. “A handful of AI-linked companies have driven much of the stock market’s gains recently, so any wobble here can ripple thr…
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AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.
WIRED contacted officials in all 50 states and Washington, DC, to uncover the extent of a harassment campaign ahead of the midterms.
These days, turning on the TV means getting past everything it wants you to watch first. A sponsored banner here, a row of recommendations there, and an app you never asked for that keeps showing up when you just wanted to open Netflix. But some smart TV owners have had enough, and are putting AI coding assistants to work. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been remove…
Sony’s WF-1000XM6 are on sale in black today only. | Image: Sony For a very limited time, Sony’s latest high-end noise-canceling earbuds are actually cheaper than their last-gen counterpart, the WF-1000XM5 . B&H Photo is selling Sony’s latest WF-1000XM6 in black for an all-time low of $238 ($92 off) at checkout. Other retailers aren’t currently offering a discount on the XM6. Sony WF-1000XM6 earbu…
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's new documentary, You Can See Everything , about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has hit theaters and it seemingly has everyone talking. Those who have seen it are wondering what Elizabeth Holmes is up to right now. Well, let's take a look. Who is Elizabeth Holmes? Holmes was heralded as a tech industry wunderkind, founding her company Theranos while still in…
Apple’s iPhone Duo ships Friday, Oct. 23, and it has one of the biggest batteries the company has ever put in an iPhone. The Duo packs a 4,883 mAh battery, according to data from GSMarena . That’s more capacity than every iPhone released since the iPhone 13, with three exceptions: the eSIM-only iPhone 17 Pro Max and both versions of the iPhone 18 Pro Max . It's an impressive phone, so…
Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.
Cognizant and Google Cloud have formed a Gemini Frontier Capability Group, with more than 18,000 Cognizant staff dedicated to building AI agents for clients on Google’s Gemini. It will focus on updating old systems, developer tools, business process automation and cyber defence. No financial terms were disclosed. Cognizant is dedicating more than 18,000 staff to […] This story continues at…
JAXA is leading an international mission to reach Mars’ Phobos moon and bring soil back to Earth. If successful, it could unlock new clues about the history of the solar system.
After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
Open source Windows alternative ReactOS has reached a major milestone: The operating system can now be installed directly onto an NT Files System drive partition. As reported by Phoronix , the move to NTFS clears a long-standing hurdle for the project and brings it one step closer to finally reaching beta. Prior to this latest announcement, ReactOS required users to keep a FAT32 partition for inst…
Watch Vanderpump Rules on Bravo via Fubo free trial (US only) US stream: Peacock (next day) UK stream: Hayu 7-day free trial Use NordVPN to watch from anywhere Bravolebrity Lisa Vanderpump is rolling the dice on her biggest project yet — she's opening a her own hotel in Sin City. Vanderpump Rules: Lisa Las Vegas , a new three-part reality TV series, follows her race to open The Vanderpump Hotel on…
A Bronco for the modern age. A Bronco for the modern age.
Engineering at Meta : Meta details Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale supercluster in Ohio, which will have ~1M GPUs at full scale and was used to train its Muse foundational models — - With the recent release of the Muse family of foundational models, we want to take you inside the infrastructure that has made it all possible.
Ukraine's CCD says suspected Russian bot posts in its sample fell 83.6% on October 8 after a strike shut Yandex's Sasovo data center The same data shows volume back above pre-strike levels by October 10, with a smaller 42.6% dip after the Vladimir shutdown Cloudflare and Graphika found no comparable drop in Western political communities, though Russian-language Telegram output fell 5% to 15% Ukrai…
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch : Town, which develops enterprise AI assistants, raised a $108M Series B at a $1B valuation, after announcing a $55M Series A in June — Town, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based startup developing AI assistants, nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B funding round co-led …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Developers and vibe coders are using AI tools like Claude Code to get rid of sponsored ads on their smart TVs, disable tracking features, and more — The latest use case for AI? Dumbing down your smart TV to get rid of the bloat. A number of developers and vibe coders have recently …
Google claims its newest AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, just beat Minecraft — no human help required. In a research paper posted Oct. 15, Google DeepMind researchers said a team of four Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated the Ender Dragon, the game’s final boss. The agents started in a freshly generated survival world on Easy difficulty and were given a single goal: kill the dragon. It took them…
AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures.
Modal plans to run its Sandboxes product on Nvidia’s Arm-based Vera CPU, its first step away from x86 chips. In Modal’s own tests, Vera handled up to twice as many tasks as an Intel server when packed with containers. The results have not been independently checked. Modal plans to run its AI agent sandboxes on […] This story continues at The Next Web
Watch Aberfan: The Village That Fought Back free on BBC iPlayer Use NordVPN to unlock BBC iPlayer from abroad (75% off right now) Airs Monday, October 19 at 9pm BST In 1966, a coal waste tip collapsed in Wales and killed 144 people, including numerous children. The tragic event set a chain of events in motion that saw the community take on the government and demand change. You can see how it all p…
Subscribing to an antivirus suite kept you safe a long time ago, but they're much less useful for most people today. Subscribing to an antivirus suite kept you safe a long time ago, but they're much less useful for most people today.
Apple recently invited journalists to a "Pro and Tell" event in Los Angeles , where we expect the company to officially unveil the first-ever touchscreen MacBook Pro OLED laptop (and a new iPad Mini , if we're lucky). Apple's new CEO John Ternus has certainly been busy. Following the September iPhone launch and the recent "Welcome Home" smart home event , this would be the third big special event…
Ryan Lawler / Axios : Prism Data, which provides credit-scoring data and analytics that help lenders assess borrowers, raised a $20M Series A led by Story Ventures — Prism Data, which helps lenders assess credit risk using bank transaction data, raised $20 million in Series A funding, CEO Jason Rosen tells Axios Pro exclusively.
“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-word blog post that has knocked the AI world on its head, sparking wild speculation as well as cautious (and not-so-cautious) celebration. Cammarata’s claim is that LLMs might in fact be far easier to understand—and thus t…
Rumors have been swirling for weeks about a late-October Apple hardware launch event , and on Monday, the company made it official. Apple will be hosting a "Pro and Tell" event on Thursday, Oct. 28 at 10 a.m. PT in Los Angeles. Journalists and creators are sharing invitations to the upcoming Apple event, where the company is widely expected to unveil its first-ever touchscreen and OLED MacBook Pro…