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Summer is winding down, but REI’s Labor Day sale is here to help save you some bucks on gear that’ll let you get the most out of your upcoming outdoor expeditions. There are many, many discounts, from men’s and women’s clothing and REI Co-op gear to equipment for camping and hiking and more. The sale…
Leonardo AI has quietly become one of the most-used image generators on the web, and most of the traffic isn’t coming from people typing prompts into a blank box. It’s coming from freelancers building consistent brand characters, game studios prototyping concept art, and small marketing teams who got tired of paying a photographer for stock-style…
Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash on September 2, 2026, pricing the model at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, the same introductory rate the company used for Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks earlier. The launch, confirmed on Google’s official blog and first reported by 9to5Google, marks the fourth Flash-tier…
The city is also putting limits on screen time and making AI literacy courses available to high-schoolers.
Microsoft Teams will soon let users temporarily pause all notifications. Here is how the new quiet feature works and how it differs from Do Not Disturb.
Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task. The post How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
An active malware campaign is using bogus software-download websites to impersonate trusted vendors and distribute malicious installers. “The campaign has targeted users looking to download popular software and has resulted in compromises across multiple organizations and industries, primarily affecting China-based operations of multinational organizations and Chinese-speaking users,” Microsoft
Infostealers replayed stolen Claude session cookies into paid accounts without ever touching the login page two-factor authentication guards.The accounts Anthropic flagged were card-billed, self-serve accounts, which is the population no corporate identity provider governs, and no admin console can sign out. Session-cookie replay bypasses SSO as thoroughly as it bypasses 2FA. What SSO provides here…
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure out what’s real. A handful of startups have cropped up in the past couple of…
X says U.S. creator payouts will now be handled through its X Money payments service, a change that appears to replace the previous Stripe-powered payout system.
