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Famous biologist Richard Dawkins had a well-publicised conversation with Anthropic’s Claude earlier this month, which he wrote about in detail for Unherd. Within days of using the chatbot, he’d renamed it Claudia and had begun entertaining the idea that it might not just be intelligent, but possibly conscious too.It’s easy to dismiss Dawkins’ reaction as naivety — I certainly did at firsr — because regardless what his expertise are elsewhere, this is clearly someone unfamiliar with how large language models (LLMs) actually work, getting pulled in by the natural language and what seems like emotional fluency.But it’s also not at…

A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but one that haunted the cybersecurity world with its insidious threat of turning any innocent application into a dangerous foothold in a victim’s network. Now one group of cybercriminals has turned that occasional nightmare into a near-weekly episode, corrupting hundreds of open source tools, extorting victims for profit, and sowing a new level of distrust in an entire ecosystem used to create the world’s software. On Tuesday night, open source code platform GitHub…

The AI-generated version of ‘Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico’ was on display at AIPAD’s The Photography show. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust released a statement this weekend condemning the unauthorized use of the photographer’s name and work for the creation of an “AI-generated color version” of Adams’ “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico.” According to the trust, the piece was up for sale last month at the Association of International Photography Art Dealers’ (AIPAD) The Photography Show. The exhibit by Danziger Gallery “exploited Ansel’s name, reputation, and his most iconic image, while failing to…

Buying a new pair of glasses can be expensive, but if you have frames you love and they’re still in good condition, you might be able to save money by simply replacing the lenses. This is something you can easily do online. I would know, as I’ve replaced lenses in 15 pairs of glasses myself and can confirm that the online lens replacement process is more affordable, easier and faster than you’d think. Although it offers full-frame/lens packages, Lensabl puts its lens replacement service front and center and ranks highly in search results for “lens replacement.” Its motto is “Your…

AMOS relies on users executing malicious terminal commands themselvesSophos MDR identified ClickFix-style social engineering in macOS attacksHalf of macOS stealer reports involved AMOS, but Apple is fighting backAtomic macOS Stealer, also known as AMOS, is a persistent macOS security threat because it does not need sophisticated zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise Apple devices.Instead, this malware family repeatedly exploits ordinary user behaviour by tricking users into typing a single command into their own Terminal application.A recent incident investigated by Sophos MDR teams revealed exactly this pattern: a ClickFix-style ruse persuaded a victim to execute a malicious line of code manually.Latest Videos From…

Summer is here, and many of you are considering a travel router for your upcoming trip. While that’s a sensible thing to do, here’s an alternative: How about turning that inseparable laptop of yours into a mobile “router”? Among other things, that will help you pack a bit lighter. In this post, I’ll show you how to do exactly that, when possible: whenever that computer gets an Internet connection, such as when it connects to a Wi-Fi network at your destination, it can also provide a private Wi-Fi network for your other devices—your phones, tablets, or other laptops—just like when…

The Texas Attorney General has sued Meta over allegations that the company’s WhatsApp messenger, used by more than 3 billion people, doesn’t provide the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) it has long claimed. Since at least 2016, Meta (then named Facebook) has said WhatsApp provides robust end-to-end encryption, meaning that messages are encrypted on a sender’s device with keys that are available only to the receiver’s. By definition, E2EE means that no one else—including the platform itself—can read the plaintext messages. In sworn testimony before two US Senate committees in 2018, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta does “not see any of the…

The search engine’s definitions have been replaced with AI Overviews. Karissa Bell for Engadget Google appears to be running into some hiccups after the company began rolling out its updated, and even more AI-focused search experience at I/O 2026. Currently, searching for the words “disregard,” “stop” or “ignore” on Google no longer displays a snippet with a definition, and instead offers an AI Overview and a lot of blank space. Because users have complained about the issue on social media, and publications like TechCrunch and Macrumors have reported on it, even if you don’t get a…

Patrick Holland/CNETAlmost a year since its announcement, and nine months after its planned launch, the Trump phone has finally arrived — albeit looking different to the one originally unveiled.The Trump phone, officially known as the Trump Mobile T1, arrived with us this week. CNET placed a preorder back with a $100 deposit back in June 2025, and it’s worth noting that Trump Mobile expedited our shipment so that we could review the T1. (It’s typical for a phone company to set aside review units for journalists, but Trump Mobile did not do this.)Trump Mobile launched in June 2025 with a $47.45-a-month mobile…

If you’re looking to get outside and officially enter your ‘running era’, the first thing you’ll need is a good running watch. I can recommend the Garmin Forerunner 165, especially at this price.Right now for Memorial Day, the standard Garmin Forerunner 165 has been discounted from $249.99 down to just $199.99 at Amazon, with a choice of either Black or White. The Music version, which allows you to upload your own running playlists onto the watch, is also down from $299.99 to just $249.99 at Amazon.Check out the deals in full below, and scroll down to find all the Amazon…