Deepfakes Are Coming for Your Bank Account

But the most realistic deepfakes I was able to create did not involve politicians or celebrities. They mostly did not depict ...

"Copy Fail" is a rare Linux bug that can turn an unprivileged user into a root admin in seconds

Copy Fail could represent a significant security risk in the making. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at ...

J. Craig Venter, who won the race to sequence the human genome, dies at 79

J. Craig Venter has died at 79. He mapped the first draft of the human genome. The J. Craig Venter Institute announced his ...

Synthetic biology promised to rewrite life – with the death of its pioneer, J. Craig Venter, how close are scientists?

Advances in genetic engineering have enabled researchers to seek ways to program new life. But has synthetic biology actually ...
CNET

I Played the Expanse: Osiris Reborn's Beta. It Trims the Fat Off Mass Effect

Players who preorder at least the $80 edition of the game can try out a short beta demo of the upcoming action RPG, due out ...
Ars Technica

New Codex features include the ability to use your computer in the background

A new version of OpenAI’s Codex desktop app reaches users today. It brings a smorgasbord of new features and changes, ranging from new developer capabilities to expansion into non-developer knowledge ...
CNET

Nvidia Is Trying to Make a Computer for Orbital AI Data Centers

Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...
9to5Mac

Meta’s Manus launches ‘My Computer’ to turn your Mac into an AI agent

AI startup Manus has released its answer to OpenClaw and Perplexity’s Personal Computer. The similarly dubbed “My Computer” system runs on your Mac or PC, turning your machine into a personal AI agent ...
Ars Technica

Perplexity’s “Personal Computer” brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...
9to5Mac

Perplexity’s Personal Computer is a cloud-based AI agent running on Mac mini

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...
Digital Trends

Perplexity’s Personal Computer: What is it, what can it do, and what does it cost?

At its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference — held inside a former church in San Francisco’s North Beach — Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, a cloud-based AI agent designed to function as a ...
ZDNet

Is Perplexity's new Computer a safer version of OpenClaw? How it works

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