Chinese robotics company Unitree just showed off an explosive demo: a fully functional mecha suit for a human pilot. “We kindly request that all users refrain from making any dangerous modifications or using the robot in a hazardous manner,” the company said in its announcement.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/unitree-mecha-suit
Digg is back from the dead. Again. This time around, the site is focused on ranking news — specifically, AI news to start. In an email to beta testers, the company said the site’s goal is to “track the most influential voices in a space” and to surface the news that’s actually worth “paying attention to.” AI is the area it’s testing this idea with, but if successful, Digg will expand to include other topics.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/11/digg-tries-again-this-time-as-an-ai-news-aggregator/
The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the attack, which caused the academic software Canvas used by thousands of schools and universities to go offline this week.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3pq0136eqo
After exploring the bigger market for productivity tablets featuring color displays with the Paper Pro and the smaller Paper Pro Move, E Ink tablet maker reMarkable is returning to its roots with a new monochrome device called the Paper Pure.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/remarkables-new-paper-pure-tablet-goes-back-to-basics-with-a-monochrome-screen/
At first glance, the new trophy for the Cadillac Championship golf tournament looks like your average abstract design; a nicely curved tall geometric shape. But look closer, and you'll find several ingenious golf references in its DNA. Designed by Cadillac Design studio and GM Industrial Design, the 20-inch trophy is intended to capture a sense of "motion, tension, and precision". The reference? A golfer's swing.
https://www.creativebloq.com/design/product-design/why-everyones-talking-about-the-cadillac-championship-trophy
A full 46 percent of children even said that age checks were easy to bypass, while just 17 percent said that they were difficult to fool. The methods kids use to fool age gates vary, but most are pretty simple: There's the classic use of a video game character to fool video selfie systems, while in other instances, children reported just entering a fake birthday or using someone else's ID card when that was required. The report even cites cases of children drawing a mustache on their faces to fool age detection filters. Seriously.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/uk_online_safety_act_age_checks_subvert/?td=rt-3a
Of the 10,871 new podcast feeds created in the past nine days, 4,243 of them, or 39 percent, have signs of being AI-generated, data from the Podcast Index cited by Bloomberg last week showed. “It’s absurd,” Dave Jones, who runs the Podcast Index, said on his own show last week, per the outlet.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/half-ai-podcasts-slop