21 Excellent New Picture Books, April 2025
Wowza, does April have a lot of excellent picture books! I wanted to stop reviewing books at about ten, but there were too many good… The...
Someone is trying to recruit security researchers in bizarre hacking campaign
An obscure wannabe hacker’s tantalizing (and clearly sketchy) job offer has some security researchers asking, why? Source : Someone is trying to recruit security researchers in...
Sam Altman says that OpenAI’s capacity issues will cause product delays
In a series of posts on X on Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the popularity of the company’s new image-generation tool in ChatGPT will...
March Gradness Day 7: The Semifinals
We’re getting down to the final rounds, and the battles for these last few slots have been intense. Never Let Me Go, which made it all...
Roblox partners with Google on ads
Google on Tuesday announced a new partnership with gaming company Roblox, which will allow advertisers to purchase and scale Roblox’s Rewarded Video and other immersive ad...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 1, 2024
Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 Code Talker by Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila Get This Deal $1.99 Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore Get This...
NaNoWriMo shut down after AI, content moderation scandals
NaNoWriMo, a 25-year-old online writing community-turned-nonprofit, announced on Monday evening that it is shutting down. NaNoWriMo — an abbreviation of National Novel Writing Month — is...
Qualcomm acquires generative AI division of Vietnamese startup VinAI
Qualcomm has acquired the generative AI division of VinAI, an AI research company headquartered in Hanoi, for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced on Monday. The...
Meet Ponte Labor, a startup matching Hispanic immigrants to jobs using WhatsApp
While working on their MBAs at Harvard Business School, Colombian immigrants Stephanie Murra and Lorenza Vélez noticed that most of the workers in the cafeteria were...
The Best Books of the Century So Far, According to Kirkus
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. And Another Best of the Century...
