What we know about the judge assigned to Comey’s criminal case

A judge appointed by former President Biden was randomly assigned Thursday night to oversee the criminal case of James Comey, the former FBI director and a longtime adversary of President Trump.
Make Tech Easier

Google Colab Allows You to Write and Run Python Code in Your Browser – Getting Started Guide

Google Colab is a free online tool from Google that lets you write and run Python code directly in your browser.

No Coding Skills? No Problem! OpenAI Codex Makes Programming Effortless

Discover how OpenAI Codex, powered by ChatGPT 5, is changing coding by automating tasks and simplifying software development.

NPM package caught using QR Code to fetch cookie-stealing malware

Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to hide a second-stage payload to steal cookies from a user's web browser. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this ...

Chrome is now smarter thanks to Gemini - 5 features you must check out

Type a complex question or command directly into your Chrome search bar. Instead of just seeing a list of search results, ...

Your passkeys could be vulnerable to attack, and everyone - including you - must act

When a clickjack attack managed to hijack a passkey authentication ceremony, were password managers really to blame? ZDNET's investigation reveals a more complicated answer.
Rock Paper Shotgun

Borderlands 4 is out now but our review code just arrived so I'm writing about this silly bicycle game instead

Borderlands 4 is out now. Our Borderlands 4 review is not, because we have only just been sent a review code. I fear I was unduly forgiving of Team Cherry last week for not supplying Silksong code ...
The New York Times

Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.

Mr. Shirky, a vice provost at N.Y.U., has been helping faculty members and students adapt to digital tools since 2015. I remember the moment I knew my approach to student use of artificial ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

How a solo creator scaled a daily game to 1,000 users without writing a single line of code

A solo creator launched a daily riddle game, The Sphinx Riddle, without writing a single line of code. AI agents handled core development tasks, from back-end logic to UX tweaks. TikTok carousel ads ...
Reuters

US DOJ to back off money transmitter cases in shift backed by crypto

Aug 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department does not plan to target software developers that create decentralized platforms for transmitting cryptocurrencies without criminal intent, a Justice ...
VentureBeat

Salesforce’s new CoAct-1 agents don’t just point and click — they write code to accomplish tasks faster and with greater success rates

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Researchers at Salesforce and the ...
Ars Technica

Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”

Google Gemini has a problem with self-criticism. "I am sorry for the trouble. I have failed you. I am a failure," the AI tool recently told someone who was using Gemini to build a compiler, according ...