Meta’s AI support assistant helped hackers gain access to high-profile Instagram accounts, according to social media reports. Without verification checks, Meta AI would change the email address associated with an Instagram account, allowing the password to be updated. Meta introduced its AI support assistant in December with the aim of making it easier for customers to access 24/7 account support. It can be used to report scams, get information about content removal, and reset passwords. It is this latter option that bad actors have been able to exploit. The Instagram vulnerability surfaced on social media over the weekend, with demonstrations…
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Dani DG/Shutterstock Friction between different generations is nothing new. In fact, elders have been at odds with younger ones for centuries. Although millennials have borne the brunt of this intergenerational pressure over the past two decades by being labeled entitled and lazy, they are now in their thirties and forties and have already earned their stripes, so to speak. This means it’s Generation Z’s turn to carry the mantle of stereotypes. As expected, Zoomers are now the laziest and unreliable. While some of the criticism comes from the expected attitude…
Markpiovesan/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The technology of the 1990s, in many ways, defined the decade. It has become embedded in the culture, with Blockbuster Video stores acting as both a meeting place and primary access to movies and video games. Technology also began to shrink down to devices that could fit into backpacks and pockets. Small tech like Game Boys and Tamagotchis aren’t yet the kind of retro gadgets your grandpa might have, but eventually the ’90s will be far enough behind…
Developers who were invited to attend the WWDC 2026 keynote at Apple Park can also attend a special screening of The Mandalorian and Grogu. The screening will take place at 8:00 p.m. PT on Tuesday, June 9 at the Steve Jobs Theater. Apple says a “special guest” will be in attendance, and doors are expected to open at 7 p.m. There’s no word on the special guest star, but the film stars Pedro Pascal as The Mandalorian and Jon Favreau directs. Favreau reportedly used the Apple Vision Pro headset to preview the IMAX version of the film while working on…
Last December, Meta announced a new AI support assistant that it said would make the account recovery process “quicker and easier” for people who had been locked out of their Facebook or Instagram pages. Now it seems like Meta may have over-delivered on that promise. This same Meta AI Support Assistant has apparently been used by hackers to hijack a number of Instagram accounts. According to security researchers, the AI tool made it ridiculously easy for hackers to take over accounts, even though they were protected by two-factor authentication. The exploit was reported over the weekend by numerous security researchers…
If you’ve never had the opportunity to see one, a drone show can be quite impressive. Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, can have a multitude of personal and private uses, such as Ukraine’s fleet of 15,000 drones for national defense, or simply someone using one to obtain aerial footage of an event. This time, however, the drones were part of a record-breaking celebration, and those who witnessed it likely experienced something incredible. Completed on February 3, 2026, China’s Guangdong EHang Egret Media Technology Co., Ltd. now holds the Guinness World Record for the most multirotor/airborne drones simultaneously from a single…
If you’re a PC gamer of a certain age, you might remember Impressions Games fondly. For two years, between 1998 and 2000, the studio released three games that would become classics in the city construction genre: Caesar III, Pharaoh, and Zeus: Master of Olympus. SimCity may have established the formula that every city builder has followed since, but if you ask me, these three games made that formula their own in a way that few others have since. More than two decades later, people are still playing these games, with fan projects like Augustus helping to smooth out some of…
Expect over an hour of trailers and reveals. Sony kicks off the non-E3/Summer Game Fest season with a State of Play event on June 2 at 5 p.m. ET. You can tune in live via the company’s official YouTube and Twitch channels. A version with Japanese subtitles will be available on YouTube. We park the YouTube stream below. You can keep the page open and press play when the stream starts. The company has promised over an hour of footage, with “gameplay updates, announcements and reveals from top studios around the world.” We don’t know exactly what will be…
Apple today released macOS Tahoe 26.5.1, a small update to the macOS Tahoe operating system released last year. macOS Tahoe 26.5.1 comes three weeks after Apple released macOS Tahoe 26.5. Mac owners can download the software by opening the System Settings app and then navigating to the Software Updates section. According to Apple’s release notes for the update, macOS Tahoe 26.5.1 addresses an unexpected shutdown issue affecting some business users on M5 Macs. This update addresses an issue for business users where Macs equipped with an M5 chip could crash when using certain content filtering network extensions. macOS 27 is…
Apple today released iOS 26.5.1, a minor update to iOS 26. The software is available three weeks after the release of iOS 26.5 and appears to only be available for the iPhone Air and all models in the iPhone 17 line. The new software can be downloaded over-the-air to eligible iPhones by going to Settings > General > Software Update. According to Apple’s release notes, the update fixes a previously documented charging issue with the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 models. This update addresses an issue for a small number of users that may prevent wired charging on iPhone Air…