Archive of Stories for Last 7 days

Firefox Redesign Brings Round Tabs, New Themes, and Compact Mode 44
Microsoft Makes Linux Containers Native On Windows 11 20
Mistral CEO Says US AI Safety Debate Masks Competitors' 'Negligence' 28
Medal McDonald's Reportedly Using AI to 'Dynamically' Price Its Burgers 79
500K Facial Recognition Scans at UK Stations Yield Zero Arrests, One False Positive 30
OpenAI Unveils Always-On AI Agent 'Dots' 41
Google Says Chromebook Updates End In 2034, 'Many' Models Move to Googlebook OS 13
Medal California Is Banning Public Officials From Making Memecoins 87
Florida Invokes Extinction Fears In Legal Bid To Halt OpenAI Development 38
Medal El Nino Bursts Through Temperature Record Months Before Peak 79
Microbes Could Survive On Saturn's Moon Enceladus 12
Medal Medal Bananas That Don't Go Brown To Hit Supermarkets Thanks to DNA Editing 137
Medal Medal China Broadens Travel Curbs To Encompass Family of Top AI Talent 124
AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs For $8.2 Billion 10
TikTok to Pay Alabama $100 Million, Limit Teen Use In First State Settlement 19
Data Center Developer Offers $10,000 Checks To Nearby Households 100
Meta Taps MongoDB CEO Desai to Drive Enterprise AI Push 13
Nvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog 30
Amazon Evaluating Drone Deliveries In Australia, Asia 17
Bill Gates Says an AI 'Kill Switch' Isn't Enough 64
SpaceX Launches Starship Into Orbit 70
Walmart Says It's Not Using Personal Info To Set Prices As It Expands Digital Shelf Labels 74
Medal Medal Are AI Chatbots Spreading Misinformation to US Voters? 160
Apple Faces $5.7 Billion Patent Infringement Verdict Over iPhone And Apple Watch Haptics 44
Medal Just How Big is the AI Buildout - and How Risky? 88
Medal Medal Waymo Says Its Self-Driving Cars Reduced Injury-Causing Accidents by 82% 236
After Dozens of Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenAI Pauses Model Training to Build More Safeguards 71
New Tin-based Solar Cells Trap Heat 1,000 Times Longer, Could Beat 33% Limit 42
Medal Medal China and the US Say They've Agreed to Start Talks About AI 150
KDE and GNOME Developers Ponder How to Handle AI-Generated Contributions 59
After 40 Years, Microsoft Excel Will Add Single-Cell Lists and Arrays 65
Medal AI Finds So Many Linux Bugs, Canonical Changes to a Two-Week Stable Release Update Cycle 84
Medal Is Microsoft Quietly Killing Off Its 'Copilot+ PC' Brand? 67
Medal Rogue OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User-Uploaded Images Onto the Internet, Accessed US Government Websites 72
Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica Response 30
Medal There's a New Way to Break RSA Encryption 47
Asteroids Named After Tom Lehrer and 'Weird Al' Yankovic 28
Medal Medal Raspberry Pi Stock Jumps 30% as Demand Surges. (And Boards Now Locked to Their Original RAM Size) 121
Medal F-Droid 2.0: FOSS Android Appstore Continues Updating Despite Google's Pending 'Developer Verification' Plan 56
Medal How Believable is Google's New 'Live Avatar' Capability? 47
Medal People Training OpenAI's AI Fired For Using AI To Train the AI 74
Medal Five Police Officers Criminally Charged for Misusing Flock Cameras in Indianapolis 114
OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Urge UN Countries to Cooperate on AI Safety Standards 64
Medal Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X2 Series Processors Will Support Linux 74
Medal Medal Rogue OpenAI Agent Tried to Breach Government Site in May When Prompted for Simple Data-Retrieving Tasks 130
Medal Cities Across US Oppose Trump FCC Plan to Preempt Local Broadband Rules 82
Whatever Happened to the 150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Stored Under the Atlantic Ocean? 74
Medal Medal Andreessen Horowitz Launches AI/Company-Building School As a College Alternative 116
Medal Medal Bitcoin Surges to $86,455, an 8-Month High, After America's SEC Announces Tokenized Stock Experiment 123
Microsoft Helps Take Down Massive Automated, AI-Powered Phishing-as-a-Service Platform 43

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter