How do you celebrate winning an NBA championship followed by a gold medal? If you’re Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum, you drop the next iteration of your signature shoe. The Jordan Tatum 3 is the latest collaboration between Jordan Brand and the NBA champion. The shoe has the name of Tatum’s son, “Deuce,” on the...
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Flag football athlete’s comment irked NFL stars. He backed up his stance with his play.
Darrell “Housh” Doucette, a quarterback for the U.S. men’s flag football national team, has dedicated nearly three decades of his life to playing the sport. So when several NFL stars publicly expressed interest in representing the United States when flag football makes its Olympic debut in 2028, he took that personally, drawing national attention when...
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(BPRW) Why Every Black Father Must Vote: Urgent Issues for Our Families and Communities
(Black PR Wire) As fathers, we play a profound role in families and communities. While the daily responsibilities of fatherhood keep us busy providing care, love, and guidance, an essential aspect of fatherhood often goes overlooked: civic engagement. Vot…
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OpenAI CEO: We may have AI superintelligence in “a few thousand days”
Enlarge (credit: andresr via Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outlined his vision for an AI-driven future of tech progress and global prosperity in a new personal blog post titled “The Intelligence Age.” The essay paints a picture of human advancement accelerated by AI, with Altman suggesting that superintelligent AI could emerge within...
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11 million devices infected with botnet malware hosted in Google Play
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Five years ago, researchers made a grim discovery—a legitimate Android app in the Google Play market that was surreptitiously made malicious by a library the developers used to earn advertising revenue. With that, the app was infected with code that caused 100 million infected devices to connect to attacker-controlled servers and...
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When you call a restaurant, you might be chatting with an AI host
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Juj Winn) A pleasant female voice greets me over the phone. “Hi, I’m an assistant named Jasmine for Bodega,” the voice says. “How can I help?” “Do you have patio seating,” I ask. Jasmine sounds a little sad as she tells me that unfortunately, the San Francisco–based Vietnamese restaurant doesn’t...
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Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating
Enlarge (credit: ChromaDev) On Saturday, a YouTube creator called “ChromaLock” published a video detailing how he modified a Texas Instruments TI-84 graphing calculator to connect to the Internet and access OpenAI’s ChatGPT, potentially enabling students to cheat on tests. The video, titled “I Made The Ultimate Cheating Device,” demonstrates a custom hardware modification that allows...
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Google calls for halting use of WHOIS for TLS domain verifications
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Certificate authorities and browser makers are planning to end the use of WHOIS data verifying domain ownership following a report that demonstrated how threat actors could abuse the process to obtain fraudulently issued TLS certificates. TLS certificates are the cryptographic credentials that underpin HTTPS connections, a critical component of online communications...
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NC governor candidate cries AI fabrication as defense for racist porn forum posts
Enlarge / Mark Robinson, lieutenant governor of North Carolina and candidate for governor, delivers remarks prior to Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaking at a campaign event at Harrah’s Cherokee Center on August 14, 2024, in Asheville, North Carolina. (credit: Grant Baldwin via Getty Images) On Thursday, CNN reported about inflammatory comments made...
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Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps
Enlarge / The Windows App runs on Windows, but also macOS, iOS/iPadOS, web browsers, and Android. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft announced today that it’s releasing a new app called Windows App as an app for Windows that allows users to run Windows and also Windows apps (it’s also coming to macOS, iOS, web browsers, and is...