One psychiatrist has already treated 12 patients hospitalized with AI-induced psychosis — and three more in an outpatient clinic, according to the Wall Street Journal. And while AI technology might not introduce the delusion, “the person tells the computer it’s their reality and the computer accepts it as truth and reflects it back,” says Keith Sakata, a psychiatrist at the University of...

“Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades….” read the email. “With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village. “IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default….” Rob Pike’s response? “Fuck you...

Yes, greenhouse gas emissions kept rising in 2025, writes Bloomberg (alternate URL here). And the pledges of various governments to lower greenhouse gases “are nowhere near where they need to be to avoid catastrophic climate change…” But in 2025, “there were silver linings too.”The world is decarbonizing faster than was expected 10 years ago and investment into the clean energy transition,...

Regardless of who ends up owning Warners Bros., “the outlook for theatrical movies is dimming,” writes a Wall Street Journal tech columnist, noting that this year’s U.S. box office of $8.3 billion (as of December 25) “is a bit below last year’s and well below prepandemic levels of around $11 billion.”Warner has historically been one of Hollywood’s largest producers of theatrical films,...

Artist Keith Thomson is a modern (and whimsical) Edward Hopper. And Apple TV says he created the “festive artwork” shared on X by Apple CEO Tim Cook on Christmas Eve, “made on MacBook Pro.” Its intentionally-off picture of milk and cookies was meant to tease the season finale of Pluribus. (“Merry Christmas Eve, Carol…” Cook had posted.) But others were convinced that the weird image was...

An anonymous reader shared this report from The Guardian:A Texas father used the parental controls on his teenage daughter’s cell phone to find and help rescue her after she was kidnapped at knifepoint while walking her dog on Christmas, authorities allege… Her father subsequently located her phone through the device’s parental controls, the agency’s statement said. The phone was about 2 miles...

Even after its acquisition by Qualcomm, the EFF believes Arduino “isn’t imposing any new bans on tinkering with or reverse engineering Arduino boards,” (according to Mitch Stoltz, EFF director for competition and IP litigation). While Adafruit’s managing editor Phillip Torrone had claimed to 36,000+ followers on LinkedIn that Arduino users were now “explicitly forbidden from reverse...

Under the shift, which Google said would eventually be rolled out to all users, old addresses would remain active. Messages and services would not be lost.