Computers go cyberpunk as Gen Z tricks out its own cyberdecks

People are building cyberdecks as a way to be more technologically creative without the restrictions and controlling aspects ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Clump of Human Brain Cells on a Computer Chip Learned to Play the Nostalgic Video Game ‘Doom’

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...
The Verge

Anthropic’s Claude Code and Cowork can control your computer

The research preview is currently limited to macOS devices. The research preview is currently limited to macOS devices. is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet ...
Ars Technica

Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks

Anthropic is joining the increasingly crowded field of companies with AI agents that can take direct control of your local computer desktop. The company has announced that Claude Code (and its more ...
Computerworld

Claude Code and Cowork can now use your computer

Anthropic’s Claude is getting a new feature that allows the AI model to use your computer to perform tasks automatically. Both Cowork and Code can then navigate the screen by pointing, clicking, and ...
AppleInsider

Perplexity's Personal Computer lets AI agents access your Mac mini's files

Perplexity is bringing its AI closer to its users, with a new Personal Computer that combines its agentic AI platform with a Mac mini's local applications. This may be too much AI for some people. At ...
Bleeping Computer

The New Turing Test: How Threats Use Geometry to Prove 'Humanness'

Attackers are increasingly abandoning loud, disruptive attacks in favor of long-term, undetected infiltration. To support this shift toward stealth, malware developers are aggressively advancing their ...
TechSpot

Perplexity launches Computer, wants AI to run tasks for months, not minutes

First look: Perplexity AI aims to transform how artificial intelligence handles complex, multi-step tasks. Its new platform, called Computer, serves as a coordination layer for multiple large language ...
TechCrunch

Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders

Anthropic on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Vercept, an AI startup with deep roots to some of the biggest names in Seattle’s tech scene. The acquisition marks the latest after Anthropic ...
wjla

Maryland Dept. of Environment issues update on Potomac sewage spill

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (7News) — The Maryland Department of Environment (MDE) released new insight Friday on the massive sewage spill impacting the Potomac River. We know that on Jan. 19, a section of ...
WGAL

Protect yourself | Computer tech scams targeting your personal information

TRICKS THEY ARE USING TO GET YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. YOU TURN ON YOUR LAPTOP OR YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU SEE A VERY FRIGHTENING MESSAGE. SOMETIMES WITH A BLARING AUDIBLE ...