The White House is reportedly forcing its official app onto all government employee phones

You gotta pump up those download numbers somehow. Lucky-photographer/Getty Images The Trump administration is planning to automatically install its White House app on government employees’ work phones, according to a report from Government Executive. The report detailed that at least one agency will start installing the official White House app ontoContinue Reading

Italian authorities shut down major streaming piracy network

The Cinemagoal app retransmitted content from major platforms like Netflix and Disney+. Endyk/Getty Images Cinemagoal, the app known for illegally rebroadcasting streaming content from Netflix, Disney+, Spotify and more, is the latest pirate ship to sink. The Guardia di Finanza, an Italian law enforcement agency under the country’s Ministry of Economy and Finance,Continue Reading

A Nicer Voltmeter Clock

Back in 2019, I built a simple voltmeter clock: The clock, version 1. As the name implies, these clocks use analog panel voltmeters instead of traditional clock faces to display time. I didn’t come up with the idea, so I never really blogged about the design; I just built oneContinue Reading

‘No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In the wake of a devastating supply chain attack in the npm registry that left millions of enterprise applications compromised and billions of user records exposed, developers across the JavaScript ecosystem expressed deep sorrow today, lamenting that such a crisis was completely unavoidable. “It’s a shame,Continue Reading

A lot of musicians will be infuriated by this ‘world’s first generative AI guitar’, but I think its automatic tabulation and learning features sound genuinely smart — but only if the AI’s ethical

(Image credit: TemPolor) TemPolor Melo-D guitar promises to create entire songs from singing or playing a melody, using AI Auto-generated backing tracks and guitar tabulation, too $349 early bird on Kickstarter Ever wished you could get AI to help you play guitar and compose songs? Melo-D promises to do justContinue Reading

The Other Half of AI Safety

Every week, somewhere between 1.2 and 3 million ChatGPT users, roughly the population of a small country, show signals of psychosis, mania, suicidal planning, or unhealthy emotional dependence on the model. The low end of that range is the suicide-planning indicator alone. The high end groups all three categories OpenAIContinue Reading