Meta is challenging a journalist’s report that its Muse AI agent viewed his private Messages even though the Mac setting needed to allow that access was disabled. The company says Muse needs the user’s express authorization to access Messages.
The dispute concerns whether the agent could reach those conversations without the required permission. More details are expected as the story develops.
As is tradition, iFixit has torn open the latest iPhone and laid its parts bare on a table. It found some interesting details about how Apple might be hiding the crease on the Duo's folding screen and gave it a 5/10 repairability score. That might not seem particularly high, but it's the best score the […]
Months after Elon Musk promised that his AI tool Grok Imagine would create an entirely AI-generated, feature-length version of The Odyssey, the tech mogul has partially followed through on the claim. On Friday, the company shared the first 7-minute, AI-generated episode of the Odyssey series on X. The account also credited the “creative collaboration” to […]
In my mind, Spooky Season music comes in two distinct flavors. There are the fun, occasionally goofy songs like "The Monster Mash" and John Carpenter's "Halloween Theme." Then there is the genuinely terrifying: Throbbing Gristle, The Body, or Scott Walker's The Drift. This 2006 album from the singer-songwriter is truly upsetting. On it, Walker explores […]
"That's a 12-year-old view of the world."
Social media and the iPhone Duo subreddit are filled with reports of Apple's foldable failing quickly and in spectacular fashion. Some users report having the phone for only a few hours before the hinge seems to catch on something, then audibly crack and break the screen. Tellingly, the cracks all seem to happen in the […]
I know many of you are mourning the loss of the Arc browser, and I get it. It felt like the first app in a long time to really offer a new approach to browser design. Atlassian bought the company last year and shifted its focus to developing Dia, its even more AI-focused browser. And […]