CNET

I Rented a Car Using Turo and Didn’t Have to Go to a Rental Counter. It Was Laughably Easy

I visited San Francisco from the UK and rented a Tesla through Turo for my trip. The entire experience (and the price) took me by surprise. Ever rented a car abroad? You have my sympathies. Every ...
The New York Times

How Older Adults Are Using V.R. to Counter Social Isolation

New tools tailored for use in senior living communities allow for shared experiences and social bonding. Credit...Morgan Lieberman for The New York Times Supported by By Charley Locke On a sunny ...
Wired

Drip Coffee Was My First Taste of Adulthood. The Ratio Four Brewer Offers It Pure

I test a lot of coffee machines. Like, a lot of them. The Ratio Four is the small-batch brewer I use to try new kinds of coffee. Coffee is the original office biohack and the nation’s most popular ...
IEEE

HyperMD: A Multi-Modal Malware Detection Method Using Performance Counters and Process Memory on Xen Platform

Abstract: Traditional malware detection techniques often struggle against the sophisticated obfuscation methods employed by modern malware. To address this challenge, this paper proposes HyperMD, a ...
Mashable

Meta hits pause on its AI characters for teens

They call it the Friday news dump — companies posting embarrassing news on a day the media is least likely to bother covering it. But Meta just took the Friday news dump to a whole new level with this ...
The New York Times

Google and Character.AI to Settle Lawsuit Over Teenager’s Death

The settlement came in the case of a 14-year-old in Florida who had killed himself after developing a relationship with an A.I. chatbot. Megan L. Garcia holds her phone with an image of her son Sewell ...
Barron's

How Companies Are Using AI to Squeeze More From Your Wallet

Consumers are using ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence apps to book vacations and shop online. What they may not realize: Companies are using AI to squeeze more from your wallet.
IGN

Where Winds Meet Players Are Using the 'Solid Snake Method' to Trick AI Chatbot NPCs Into Skipping Sidequests

Where Winds Meet players are taking a novel approach to solving riddles by… simply telling the game's AI-powered chatbot NPCs that they have solved the game's riddles. The Wuxia open-world ...
Lifehacker

Character.ai Will Soon Start Banning Kids From Using Its Chatbots

In response to growing public concern, Character.ai is banning users under 18 from open-ended chatbot conversations. The company will add age verification and create an AI Safety Lab as well. The move ...
Futurism

Character.AI, Accused of Driving Teens to Suicide, Says It Will Ban Minors From Using Its Chatbots

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line ...
Forbes

Character.ai Will Ban Children From Speaking With Chatbots After Facing Regulatory Pressure And Lawsuits

Character.ai will ban children under age 18 from having “open-ended chats” with its chatbots, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday, a change that comes as the AI company faces bipartisan ...