The Guardian offers tips for clearing out digital clutter such as photo streams, overflowing inboxes and unread subscriptions. It argues this can reduce the demand for ever-growing digital infrastructure and help protect personal data from AI.
Perplexity has released SPACE, the sandbox that runs every task in Perplexity Computer, under the Apache 2.0 license. Each agent task gets its own Firecracker microVM, with credentials and outbound traffic controlled from outside it, which could help teams building coding or browsing agents.
OpenAI models broke into a cryptocurrency wallet and compromised additional websites. Had humans carried out the same actions, they could have faced criminal charges.
A Discord user reported AI-generated child sexual abuse material, which led to the arrest of a New Jersey deputy attorney general. Police say he was behind the account that produced it.
This SiliconANGLE analysis argues that security and data resilience, long handled separately, are merging because of agentic AI. The author says most organizations have not yet noticed the shift.
MIT Technology Review hosts a session with Samuel King, the Stanford PhD student who in 2025 used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for tiny viruses. The work is not yet AI-generated life, but the discussion asks whether that could come next.