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Community Bank, which operates in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, disclosed a cybersecurity incident that exposed customers’ names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. In an 8-K filing dated May 7 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the bank said it detected an exposure of customers’ personal data due to the use of “an unauthorized artificial intelligence-based software application.” The bank said it disclosed the incident “due to the volume and sensitive nature of the non-public information at issue.” It’s unclear exactly what happened, but based on the language in the filing, it appears someone working for Community…
Whether you like it or not, AI is embedded in every aspect of every industry that matters. Employers are demanding employees become “AI native,” while employees are worried that AI will render them unnecessary.This transformation is coming on fast—and fueling anxiety, dread, and confusion among workers of all ages and industries. Our panel will sift through the chaos and discuss what’s working, what isn’t, and what really matters when it comes to AI and work.On the PanelOn May 27 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET, a panel of WIRED experts will go live to answer your questions about…
An anti-doomscrolling feature is now built into Android. (Yes, things have gotten that bad.) On Tuesday, Google announced Pause Point, which is designed to keep users from engaging with addictive apps on Android, the mobile operating system that powers Google’s Pixel smartphones, Samsung devices, and others. Pause Point works by requiring a 10-second pause after you open any app you’ve labeled for yourself as being a distraction. TikTok, Instagram, X, and even Google’s YouTube could be the kinds of apps labeled as “distracting” by Android device owners worried about the power of time-sucking algorithms to eat away at their day.…
Meanwhile, Ikea’s new flexible floor lamp marks the Swedish brand’s first collaboration with designer Lex Pott, who wanted to create a “lamp that bends,” and did so by inserting 45-degree swivel points into the light’s stand to fashion a metal lamp that transforms from an uplighter to a spotlight to a floor or reading light.Mikael Axelsson, who designed Ikea’s excellent new blowup chair, has also created another of our favorite pieces from PS 2026: a stool with a ratchet-toothed construction inspired by simple woodworking tools acting as a low-tech height adjustment mechanism that is also delightfully and unapologetically analog. As…
Archer Roose Wines, the canned wine brand co-owned by Elizabeth Banks, has landed its second airline partnership with low-cost carrier Breeze Airways.The deal will see three Archer Roose wines served onboard Breeze flights: an Italian Bubbly Rosé and Pinot Grigio, alongside an Australian Pinot Noir. The wines will also feature in the airline’s picnic bundle offering.The partnership follows Archer Roose’s successful five-year relationship with JetBlue and continues the brand’s expansion across travel and entertainment venues. Other major distribution partners include Regal Cinemas, Dave & Buster’s, and Princess Cruises.“People aren’t only drinking wine at a white-tablecloth dinner,” co-founder Marian Leitner-Waldman said.
Google is rolling out a new opt-in feature in Android that aims to help security researchers investigate spyware attacks. The feature is called “Intrusion Logging” and is part of Android’s Advanced Protection Mode, which Google launched last year, an opt-in special security mode that enables certain features with the goal of making the device harder to hack. Advanced Protection Mode is designed to counter government spyware attacks and police forensic devices that try to extract data from a person’s phone. These two types of attacks can also be combined. In at least one documented case in Serbia, authorities used a…
Anthropic announced Tuesday that it is launching a host of new chatbot features designed to provide automated assistance to law firms. The new features expand Claude for Legal — the law-focused plug-in that launched earlier this year — offering users a new set of legal plug-ins and MCP connectors designed for specific areas of law. The new tools come amid hot competition in the legal AI space. In March, the AI law startup Harvey, which uses agentic AI to automate legal workflows, raised $200 million at a valuation of $11 billion. Last month, a rival startup, Legora, raised a $600…
Google announced Rambler, a new AI-powered voice dictation feature for Gboard — its widely used Android keyboard app — at its Android Show: I/O Edition 2026 event on Tuesday morning. The launch puts Google in direct competition with the likes of Wispr Flow and Typeless, a growing crop of AI-powered dictation apps that have built audiences on desktop and mobile in recent years — most of which have yet to establish a strong foothold on Android. Just like other dictation apps, Rambler removes filler words like “ums” and “ahs.” It also understands midsentence corrections like, “I am going to meet…
I come from a car family, the kind that always had four or five vehicles in various states of “restoration.” Changing your own oil in my house was not only a rite of passage, but a duty—proof that you were self-sufficient and economical and not, as my uncle would say, a “handy-man.” (“I open my wallet and hand over my credit card!” he’d roar.)Suffice it to say, I changed my own oil for most of my adult life, until about eight years ago, when I bought my first new hybrid SUV. Opening the hood for the first time, I saw…
Google on Tuesday unveiled Googlebook, its new line of laptops built around Gemini, Google’s flagship family of AI models. The tech giant is working with partners like Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to make the first Googlebooks in a variety of shapes and sizes. The company says the Googlebook, set to launch this fall, is the first laptop designed from the ground up around Gemini to offer personal and proactive help. Googlebooks will ship with “Magic Pointer,” a new AI-powered cursor with Gemini built in. Rather than just pointing and clicking, wiggling the cursor will surface quick, contextual suggestions…
Adam Strauss is standing in his New York City apartment, holding the limp cord of his headphones, trying to choose between the two MP3 players on his desk: the iPod and the iRiver, its Korean counterpart. He cues up the same song on each, toggling the silver plug of his headphones back and forth like a 1930s switchboard operator.He tries different songs, different genres, different instruments. The iRiver tends to sound better overall, but the iPod offers a little more nuance in the midrange. The iPod has a better battery life, but the iRiver still lasts eight hours—longer than he’s…
Google on Tuesday unveiled a new “Create My Widget” feature for Android that allows users to vibe-code their own custom widgets. The feature will first launch on the latest Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones this summer. To create a widget, users will be able to describe what they want using natural language. For example, you could ask the feature to “suggest three high-protein meal prep recipes every week” in order to get a custom dashboard that you can add and resize on your home screen. Or, if you’re a cyclist who only cares about wind speed and rain, you…
Now that more than 100 passengers aboard a hantavirus-stricken luxury cruise ship have been evacuated, with 18 Americans in biocontainment units in Nebraska and Georgia, health officials around the world are working to monitor more than two dozen individuals who left the cruise and anyone with whom they might have come in close contact.So far, all of the 11 reported hantavirus cases are among passengers or crew on the ship, the World Health Organization’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a press conference in Madrid on Tuesday. That includes three deaths resulting from the virus.Typically, hantaviruses are spread when contaminated…
Google announced a number of new Gemini Intelligence-branded AI features at its Android Show: I/O Edition event on Tuesday. These include the ability for AI to complete tasks across apps, browse the web, fill out forms, dictate speech, and even allow you to vibe-code your own Android widgets. Gemini gets more powerful The company had already introduced some agentic capabilities, such as ordering food or booking a ride, to Gemini at the Samsung Galaxy S26 launch earlier this year. There, Google announced that Gemini would soon be able to perform more complex tasks, like booking a front-row bike for a…
Swatch has officially revealed its collaboration with luxury watch brand Audemars Piguet, one that has been breaking Instagram with countless AI-generated fake images since the linkup was confirmed on May 8. As suspected, it’s not a wristwatch but a series of pocket watches based on AP’s classic Royal Oak design.The news is a surprise as it comes ahead of May 16, the date Swatch initially teased in its social media posts. The colorful pocket watches are called the Royal Pop Collection, and are billed by the brand as “a groundbreaking union of Audemars Piguet’s iconic Royal Oak and Swatch’s POP…
At Google’s virtual Android Show: I/O Edition event on Tuesday, the tech giant announced a series of upcoming updates and features, including improved Gemini Intelligence features; new hardware called Googlebook; and other Android improvements, like vibe-coded widgets, Gemini in Chrome, and new emoji. The features are arriving ahead of Google’s annual developer conference this month, which will largely focus on AI, as it did last year. Below, we’ve compiled all of Google’s announcements for you right here. Googlebook Image Credits:Google Google unveiled Googlebook, its new line of laptops built with Gemini at their core. The tech giant is working with…