09 May 2026
What not to miss at the 2026 Venice Biennale
Florentina Holzinger’s skinny dippers She’s famous for her extreme performances and Florentina Holzinger upped the ante yet again in Venice with a postapocalyptic pavilion that opened with her suspended upside down from the clappers of a large bell.
08 May 2026
What does a woman swimming in urine tell us about the state of the world? Lots! – Venice Biennale review
I t was almost over before it even started. This year’s Venice Biennale has been tearing itself apart for months: countries not showing up, artists getting fired, exhibitions being cancelled, funding getting pulled. There were petitions and protests months before a painting was on the wall. The jury quit in the days leading up to the opening, then Iran quit, then the European Commission quit.…
08 May 2026
How dangerous is Anthropic’s Mythos AI? | Bruce Schneier
Last month, Anthropic made a remarkable announcement about its new model, Claude Mythos Preview: it was so good at finding security vulnerabilities in software that the company would not release it to the general public.
05 May 2026
Is Jeff Bezos the real villain of The Devil Wears Prada 2?
In The Devil Wears Prada 2, we’re introduced to a very different Miranda Priestly. There was a time where the all-powerful queen of fashion – who is played by Meryl Streep and based on Vogue’s longest-serving editor, Anna Wintour – could end careers with a glance. But this time, she spends most of the movie taking orders herself.
05 May 2026
Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US military
Workers developing Google’s artificial intelligence products in the UK have voted to unionize, in part out of concerns about a deal between the company and the US military that was announced last week.
29 Apr 2026
Meet the AI jailbreakers: ‘I see the worst things humanity has produced’
A few months ago, Valen Tagliabue sat in his hotel room watching his chatbot, feeling euphoric as he manipulated it to ignore its own safety rules, revealing how to sequence new, potentially lethal pathogens and make them resistant to known drugs. Tagliabue, a psychology and cognitive science expert, specializes in ‘emotional’ jailbreaks—using psychological tactics like flattery, threats, and…
