The Water-Resistant Beats Pill Speaker Is Under $100, Amazon Clearing Out Inventory For Black Friday

The Beats Pill wireless Bluetooth speaker is currently available on Amazon for just $99, which is a massive 33% discount from its list price of $149. This deal marks the best price ever seen for this popular portable speaker and makes it an ideal purchase for anyone looking to enhance their audio experience this holiday … Read more

New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence

Lawsuits are never exactly a lovefest, but the copyright fight between The New York Times and both OpenAI and Microsoft is getting especially contentious. This week, the Times alleged that OpenAI’s engineers inadvertently erased data the paper’s team spent more than 150 hours extracting as potential evidence. OpenAI was able to recover much of the … Read more

Hackers break into Andrew Tate’s online ‘university,’ steal user data and flood chats with emojis

Hackers have breached an online course founded by ostensible influencer and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate, leaking data on close to 800,000 users, including thousands of email addresses and private user chat logs. The Daily Dot, which broke the news Thursday, reported that the hackers accessed the user data, then flooded the online course’s chatroom with … Read more

The New York Times says OpenAI deleted evidence in its copyright lawsuit

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking told Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver a chilling but memorable hypothetical story a decade ago about the potential dangers of AI. The gist is a group of scientists build a superintelligent computer and ask it, “Is there a God?” The computer answers, “There is now” and a bolt of lightning zaps the plug … Read more

Is Your Password on the List of the 10 Worst, Most Hackable Passwords?

How do so many people get hacked? Apparently, many of them don’t give much thought to choosing their passwords, both for personal and for work accounts. That’s according to the sixth annual analysis of personal password habits from password manager NordPass in collaboration with threat-management software NordStellar. “Guess what?” the report introduction asks. “(Passwords are) … Read more

Airweave Advanced Mattress Review: A Firm Feel With Extraordinary Airflow

I’ve slept on dozens of different mattresses over the past two years while testing beds for our guide to the best mattresses you can buy online, but nothing quite like the Airwave Advanced. I first heard about this unique, plastic-filled mattress here on WIRED.com—the internet’s go-to source for all mattress-related content—where one of our libero … Read more

Future Google supplier Kairos gets approval to build two small nuclear reactors

Nuclear startup Kairos Power received approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to start construction on two test reactors in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The permit marks a significant milestone for Kairos, which in October inked a deal with Google to provide 500 megawatts of electricity for its data centers. The fluoride-salt cooled, high-temperature reactors are … Read more

Google Cloud launches AI Agent Space amid rising competition

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As we’ve covered here before at VentureBeat, the cloud computing wars have swiftly morphed into the AI wars, with leading cloud computing divisions Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) all rolling out new … Read more