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U.K. police said on Thursday that the jailing of two hackers has “severely” hampered the activities of the infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, pleaded guilty earlier this year to hacking Transport of London (TfL), the government body overseeing the U.K. capital’s public transit system, in 2024. The two were sentenced to five years and six months in prison on Thursday. The jailing of Flowers and Jubair is a reminder that, sometimes, the most dangerous and effective hackers don’t work for sophisticated government agencies with millions of dollars of budget. More often,…
Sudo make me a sandwich. The future has arrived! DoorDash just introduced a limited beta of DoorDash CLI, a command-line tool for developers that lets you order DoorDash directly from your AI agent. The tool can be used to search stores, find deals, and check out, the company says. Today we’re opening up the DoorDash CLI in limited beta.`dd-cli` lets you order DoorDash directly from your agent: search stores, find the best deals, check out, and more.Early access for US/Canadian macOS developers by waitlist. Excited to see what folks build! pic.twitter.com/rSFhjJnvjJ— Andy Fang (@andyfang) July 15, 2026 Called “dd-cli,” the…
Google announced on Thursday that it now allows users to link and interact with some of their go-to apps right in AI Mode, the tech giant’s conversational search experience. At launch, supported apps include Instacart, Canva, and YouTube. With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly. The tech giant is also likely hoping that users will rely on AI Mode more often for things like planning and shopping. Plus, the rollout will allow Google to better compete with rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude, both…
Google might launch an AI product with one name during its experimental phase, but it will eventually tie it all to Gemini. In the latest example of this trend, the company is renaming its AI-powered research product NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook. The company is also adding features to make the tool more interactive by infusing coding execution for data analysis. The company first showed off NotebookLM during Google I/O in 2023 as Project Tailwind, and since then, it has made it into a product used by 30 million people and over 600,000 organizations. In the last three years, the company…
X is taking a tougher stance against people who try to abuse its creator revenue-sharing program by soliciting engagement and stealing content from others. It’s common for viral content to be recirculated, especially on platforms like X, where that content can be rewarded with likes, follows, and, in some cases, cold, hard cash. Instagram, Facebook, and Reddit also deal with this problem, and have implemented some technical measures to discourage such behavior — for instance, tools that detect when a user has reposted someone else’s work without giving them credit. X recently tried its hand at this, too, adding an…
Newsletter platform Beehiiv is expanding into new avenues of engagement by launching a feature called Community, which lets subscribers of a creator chat with each other. The company also launched a new AI Copilot that helps creators manage and grow their audience. The updates come as Beehiiv positions itself as a creator platform beyond newsletters. In the last few months, the company has launched podcasts, webinars, and customizable paywalls. Some of these moves are already showing positive results. The company said that 50% of podcast users migrated their shows from elsewhere, for instance. Beehiiv’s new Community tool will allow users…
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has made no secret of his desire for a manlier military.He consistently argues that the US Armed Forces lowered their combat standards in order to include women. He’s staged various photo ops in which he exercises and pumps iron with service members. In his speeches, Hegseth says that the Trump administration is restoring a “warrior ethos” to its legions of “war fighters.”Now he has a rather dubious plan to guarantee that the troops are as macho as possible: testosterone screenings and, in cases where an individual’s testosterone is judged to be deficient, voluntary hormone therapy.“Under…
SpaceX abruptly aborted the second attempted launch of its upgraded Starship rocket system on Thursday, just moments after the booster ignited at the company’s complex in South Texas. CEO Elon Musk said on his social media platform X that “[s]ome of the engines didn’t start, triggering an automatic launch abort” and that the company will replace two of them. SpaceX won’t try to launch Starship again until next week, he wrote. SpaceX was hoping to launch its first third-generation Starlink satellites into space — although they are supposed to burn up around 20 minutes after deployment, as Starship has not…
Anthropic threw its support behind the first wave of frontier AI safety laws in the United States last year, securing new transparency requirements in California and New York that much of Silicon Valley fought against, arguing they would stifle the AI boom. But Anthropic says those laws may already be outdated, and the company is now pushing states to adopt even tougher regulations.“The transparency-focused safety bills of 2025 were a really important start, but as the capabilities of AI systems continue to advance quickly—the policy responses need to match,” Cesar Fernandez, Anthropic’s head of US state and local government relations,…
It turns out that even San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who once declared that the city should be a testbed for emerging tech, has his limits. Especially when that emerging tech creates a massive hours-long traffic jam that leaves thousands at a standstill. Mayor Lurie has asked state regulators to bolster rules for autonomous vehicles nearly two weeks after Waymo robotaxis became immobile in heavy July 4 traffic, ran out of power, and blocked key streets, further compounding the gridlock. The traffic jam, which trapped municipal shuttles, became a citywide problem that affected thousands of people. In his letter to…
Brian Barrett: Vision Pro.Zoë Schiffer: The Vision Pro. Thank you so much.Brian Barrett: You don’t think about Vision Pro every day?Zoë Schiffer: No. I have to say that it lived and died very quickly, and I haven’t thought about it since. But I think the issue, and this has been true for other AI hardware the devices, like the famous pin from Humane AI and all of that. There just are many things that are better to do on a screen, and I don’t think that’s going to change. However, if you can get agents and voice mode that works…
The numbers13% — Netflix’s Q2 revenue growth year over year to $12.6 billion, which is in line with expectations.2% — Viewership hours grew 2% in the first half of the year vs. 1.5% in the same period in 2025.-8% — Reports noted that Netflix’s stock dropped in after-hours trading, potentially due to the company narrowing its revenue forecast for 2026 to $51.0 billion to $51.4 billion.$3 billion — The company announced it was closing in on its upfront close and is on pace for $3 billion in ad revenue in 2026.The watercooler talkNetflix had a lot going on heading into…
Roblox announced Thursday a new feature called “Build,” allowing users to design games from their mobile devices using AI. The Build feature lets anyone turn simple text prompts into a basic game without any programming experience. For example, if a user types, “Let’s make a cozy adventure game set in a dense forest,” the new feature will generate an initial version of the game, which users can then modify and share with friends. “Powered by a broad set of AI models, including both open-source and proprietary Roblox models, Build handles gameplay mechanics, environment, characters, visual style, sound, and more,” the…
Wildfire season is fully upon us—and with it, the smoke. The most spectacular threat of a wildfire is of course the possibility it might directly threaten lives and homes, like the wildfires last year that devastated Los Angeles.But it is the smoke and the stinging haze—and especially the invisible particulate matter borne aloft for hundreds of miles—that is most likely to pose grave health risks to millions across the country, as wildfires rage in Canada and across the American West during summer months. Cardiac deaths spike after wildfires. So do visits to lung doctors. Smoke is bad for you.The more…
The future of marketing will belong to the brands able to respond to cultural moments as they happen, marketers and media executives argued on Thursday at ADWEEK House: Sports Summit at The Edge in Manhattan. On the first panel of the day, When the Moment Becomes the Media Plan, decision-makers from across the media ecosystem discussed how live events like the World Cup are reshaping the marketing playbook. Moderated by ADWEEK editor Bill Bradley, the session featured Tony Marlow, chief marketing officer at Genius Sports; Michael Page, svp of digital sales at Fox Television Stations; Courtney Carter, chief revenue officer of…
U.S. beverage maker Coca-Cola said one of its dairy subsidiaries was hacked and that it’s shutting down its operations for the foreseeable future. The multinational giant said in a disclosure with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its Fairlife dairy company was hit by ransomware and that its production systems are affected. The company said that its Fairlife production operations across the United States are “temporarily suspended.” Fairlife’s operations in Canada are unaffected. Coca-Cola is one of the largest companies in the world, with products spanning carbonated drinks, water, and dairy products. Its Fairlife dairy is one of the…