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Rob Pegoraro

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
26
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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Rob Pegoraro

    Don't Worry About AI Overlords. Focus on Boring Stuff You Should've Fixed Ages Ago (opens the original)

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    AMSTERDAM—Waves of headlines about agentic AI systems hacking into other computers on their own might suggest it’s time to be anxious or at least angry about the rise of aggressive agents, unless you should instead panic about AI somehow ending human life. Three experts in the field, however, aren’t having any of that yet. In a panel I moderated at the HumanX AI conference here last week, they said the biggest security risk remains not artificial but organic intelligence: flawed humans who keep

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Rob Pegoraro

    You Booked the Flights. AI Travel Site From Kayak Co-Founders Wants to Do the Rest (opens the original)

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    A new AI service backed by some of the bigger names in the travel business aims to bring conversational ease to booking the non-flight parts of your trip: places to sleep, places to eat, and things to do. The founders of Lola, opening for business Tuesday, say they want to bridge the gap between asking an AI chatbot for help with those things and actually booking them. “LLMs do a really good job of answering free-form questions,” said co-founder Steve Hafner, who also co-founded Kayak. “But wher

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Rob Pegoraro

    After One Hiccup, SpaceX Reaches Orbit With Starship's 14th Launch (opens the original)

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    After a rocky ride to space on its 14th launch, SpaceX’s Starship rocket went where no other Starship has gone in almost 3.5 years of test launches: Earth orbit. For a few anxious minutes, it looked like this flight would follow the same suborbital trajectory as earlier missions. With one of six upper-stage engines shutting down early, flight controllers waved off the planned orbital-insertion burn. "We're only going to commit to orbit if everything is looking really healthy," launch communicato

  4. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Rob Pegoraro

    I Stopped By This LA Convenience Store to Have a Robot Arm Hand Me a Snack (opens the original)

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    LOS ANGELES–Convenience-store workers aren’t always the most communicative lot, but “Peter” said nothing to me during my stop at a VenHub Smart Store here and didn’t even return my gaze. Because “Peter” was a robot arm with no face or mouth. This glass-fronted blue box on the ground floor of the LAX/Metro Transit Center station, adjacent to Los Angeles International Airport, dispenses with humans altogether. Imagine this and other VenHub spots (two more in LA and two in Las Vegas) as a particula

  5. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Rob Pegoraro

    Apple Hid a Legendary '80s Mac Mascot Inside Its New OSes. Here’s How to Find It (opens the original)

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    Apple’s newest operating systems came out earlier this week, and inside of them is a throwback reference to one of the more whimsical bits of one of the company’s oldest OS releases: Clarus the dogcow. If you've been using Macs all of your life, you might remember Clarus as a bitmapped animal with the spots of a cow and approximately the head and the tail of a dog, which would visualize how your choice of print settings affected how your text appeared on a page. More than four decades after the

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