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As Spyware Companies Get Chummy with White House, Apple and WhatsApp Say They’ll Protect Your Phone

Statements that they’ll help thwart “mercenary spyware” are putting Apple and Meta on the side of platform users with fears about spying tools. The Guardian reports that two spyware firms with ties to Israel are seeking to “make inroads with the Trump administration.” Those companies include the NSO Group—the notorious seller of the powerful Pegasus

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The Cloud for AI Agents

🚀 Big milestone for our team. Over the past months, we’ve been focused on one goal — making it effortless and safe to run untrusted code at scale. Traditional containers couldn’t deliver the speed or isolation modern AI systems need, so we built something new. Hopx Sandboxes launch in around 150 ms, run as full

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The Mac calculator’s original design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for ten minutes

Rather than continue the endless revision cycle, Espinosa took a different approach. According to Hertzfeld, Espinosa created a program that exposed every visual parameter of the calculator through pull-down menus: line thickness, button sizes, background patterns, and more. When Jobs sat down with it, he spent about ten minutes adjusting settings until he found a

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AI chatbots are helping hide eating disorders and making deepfake ‘thinspiration’ 

AI chatbots “pose serious risks to individuals vulnerable to eating disorders,” researchers warned on Monday. They report that tools from companies like Google and OpenAI are doling out dieting advice, tips on how to hide disorders, and AI-generated “thinspiration.” The researchers, from Stanford and the Center for Democracy & Technology, identified numerous ways publicly available

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