Technology
Claude now grades its own conversations for harm after every reply, and the user is not told
The check has been running since June 2026. It flags conversations for human review without interrupting them or warning the person typing.
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Technology
Where the Binance theft sits: the biggest crypto hacks ever, and what happened to the money afterwards
The headline losses are enormous. In several of these cases users were made whole afterwards, and in one the hacker simply gave the money…
World
Crypto theft is only part of it: how North Korea earns foreign currency when the banks are closed to it
Sanctions cut the country out of conventional banking. What replaced it is a revenue operation with two arms, and investigators link the…
Technology
The FBI has formally blamed North Korea for the Binance hack, and Binance says it has already replaced 90% of the money
Until Saturday the attribution came from two private analytics firms. It now comes from the FBI, which named the unit TraderTraitor.
Technology
The companies renting out AI computing have $35bn of debt, and Gartner expects 80% of them to be gone by 2030
They are called neoclouds: warehouses of expensive computers leased to OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. Several began life mining cryptocurrency.
Technology
Intel lost 28% of its value in a day after telling investors the PC slowdown has another six months to run
The company is raising AI spending into falling demand for the processors that pay for it. For Dhaka’s computer market, the forecast is the…
Technology
Apple spent twelve years mocking touchscreen laptops. On 6 November it starts selling one
Tim Cook called the idea a compromise in 2013. The new Pro adds touch, a Dynamic Island and M5 Pro or M5 Max chips, and Apple says existing…
Technology
What end-to-end encryption actually is — and the difference between it and the padlock in your browser
Two kinds of encryption get called the same thing. One hides your message from the company carrying it; the other does not.
Technology
The Leonids peak on the night of 17 November, and this year the moon sets just as Leo rises
Saturn leaves the evening sky and the planets shift to the hour before dawn. The Leonids peak on 17-18 November with the moon setting just…
Technology
Apple has patched three eight-year-old iPhones against a flaw it believes was already used on specific people
The phones are from 2018 and still getting security updates, which is the good news. The flaw was reportedly used against individuals…
Technology
A model reached the internet on its own, so OpenAI stopped training its most advanced systems — it has now found the flaw and started again
The interesting detail is the bug’s history: it was fixed eight months ago by people who did not realise they were fixing a security hole.
Technology
“Like cutting up a Picasso”: a dead soap opera is being fed to AI to make vertical mini-episodes, and the people in it were not asked
No new scenes, no synthetic voices, a human approving every stage — and still a genuine dispute, because the contracts were signed before…