An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Speaking to graduates of University of Central Florida's College of Arts and Humanities and Nicholson School of Communication and Media on May 8, commencement speaker Gloria Caulfield, vice president of strategic alliances a...
Apple says end-to-end encryption for RCS messages between iPhone and Android is now available in iOS 26.5, though the feature is still considered beta and depends on carrier support on both sides. MacRumors reports: Apple says that it worked with Google to lead a cross-indust...
GM is laying off about 500 to 600 salaried IT workers, mainly in Austin, Texas, and Warren, Michigan, as it restructures its technology organization and trims costs. "GM is transforming its Information Technology organization to better position the company for the future. As ...
cURL creator Daniel Stenberg says Anthropic's hyped Mythos bug-hunting model found only one confirmed low-severity vulnerability in cURL, plus a few non-security bugs, after he expected a much longer list. He argues Mythos may be useful, but not meaningfully beyond other mode...
Nvidia's real AI moat isn't "a piece of hardware," writes Wired's Sheon Han. It's CUDA: a mature, deeply optimized software ecosystem that keeps machine-learning workloads tied to Nvidia GPUs. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: What sounds like a chemical compoun...
Digg is relaunching again, this time as an AI-focused news aggregator rather than the Reddit-style community site it recently abandoned. TechCrunch reports: On Friday evening, the founder previewed a link to the newly redesigned Digg, which now looks nothing like a Reddit clo...
A Georgia data center developed by QTS used nearly 30 million gallons of water through two unaccounted-for connections before residents complained about low water pressure and the county utility discovered the issue. "All told, the developer, Quality Technology Services, owed...
The Musk v. Altman trial entered its third week Monday, with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and former OpenAI co-founder and renowned AI researcher Ilya Sutskever taking the stand. Nadella testified that Elon Musk never raised concerns to him that Microsoft's investments in Open...
Ahead of the hit show’s finale, cocreators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello talk about media consolidation, the perils of censorship, and why they find AI “deeply disturbing.”
The Lifestudio Grand Plus isn’t without quirks, but the ultrashort-throw home cinema projector delivers a rich picture quality in movies and games, up to a 150-inch screen size.
Amazon says its new ultra-fast delivery option brings groceries, household essentials, and other items to customers’ doors in 30 minutes.
Automate your pool cleaning with these surface-skimming, wall-scrubbing robots.
Colloquially, OCD is known as the doubting disorder. In his new book How to Not Know, Simone Stolzoff explores whether treating that uncertainty with magic mushrooms can help people through it.
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iRobot has announced a new line of Roombas, a year after it debuted its first lidar-based robot vacuums just prior to filing for bankruptcy. This week, it introduced eight robot vacuums that improve on its prior lineup and feature lower prices, some up to £200 (about $27...
Every time-series database makes a set of storage design decisions: how to lay out rows, when to compress, what to partition on. These decisions determine cost and query performance more than the choice of database itself. This article works through those fundamentals from fi...
Two recent Linux kernel vulnerabilities have been disclosed: Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) on April 29, 2026, and Dirty Frag (CVE-2026-43284 and CVE-2026-43500) on May 7, 2026. Both allow local users to gain root access, affecting multiple Linux distributions. These vulnerabilit...
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Sony has announced a new version of the wearable personal air conditioner the company first revealed in 2019 ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The latest version is an upgrade to last year's Pro model, and while the new Reon Pocket Pro Plus isn't a complete overhaul of the ha...
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Right now, every AI model you've ever used works the same way. You talk, it listens. It responds, you listen. Thinking Machines is trying to change that by building a model that processes your input and generates a response at the same time, so it's more like a phone call tha...
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Robinhood files confidentially for its second venture fund, this time targeting growth and early-stage startups.
OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create a threat model based on an organization's code and focus on possible attack ...
Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development as well as prompt engineering and new AI workflows.
The company behind the robot lawn mower that ran me over has changed its tune. Yarbo now plans to completely remove the remote backdoor access that could have let bad actors reprogram the robot over the internet. Yarbo customers will be able to decide whether that feature eve...
Production-version patches are coming online and should be installed pronto.
Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called "interaction models." The idea behind interaction models, according to Thinking Machines, is that they will let people "collaborate with AI the w...
Audi made sure to consult American tastes for its first full-size SUV.
Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company's devices more seamless.
Prof. Dan Ghica, who leads the Programming Languages Lab at Huawei’s Edinburgh Research Centre, recently presented Cangjie (CJ), a new application development language that features algebraic data types and effect handlers. The open-sourced language is positioned as a count...
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FCC extends waiver allowing routers and drones to get patches for two more years.
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Can AI save us from the AI industry’s endless thirst for water? Outlook not so good.
If you’ve always liked the idea of the Philips Hue Go portable lamp but couldn’t justify the $100+ price tag, Govee recently released a much cheaper alternative, the Govee Table Lamp Classic, and it’s already receiving its first discount. Right now, you can pick the rec...
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In late April, Palantir - the software company that, in recent years, has perhaps become best known for its defense industry contracts and work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement - announced that it would be adding new products to its merch store. The latest offering wa...
A US passenger tested "mildly positive," but WHO is calling it "inconclusive" for now.
Apple now lets you have encrypted RCS conversations with Android users through the Messages app on iOS. As part of iOS 26.5, which was released on Monday, Apple added support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging in beta, meaning that Apple and Google can't see your messages...
Shutdown of Starlink location feature won’t dampen interest in GPS alternatives.
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Five-year old European military drone startup Helsing is close to raising another monster round.
Probably the last big updates we'll see before the next versions appear at WWDC.
Lipa says her picture contributed to Samsung's "enormous revenue."
As microdrama apps like ReelShort and DramaBox quietly rake in billions, Peacock announced on Monday that it is launching two unscripted Bravo microdramas, which will stream in the Peacock app.
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."
Coder Agents is a model-agnostic platform designed to let organizations run AI coding agents on their own infrastructure, rather than relying on cloud-based services. This allows teams to maintain full control over code, data, and execution environments. By Sergio De Simone
Learn how to find opportunities to contribute to the open source community. The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with OSS contributions appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
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Netflix improves Apache Druid performance with interval aware caching, serving 84% of analytics results from cache and reducing query load by 33%. The system decomposes rolling window queries into reusable time segments, enabling partial cache reuse and recomputation only for...
Daniele Frasca explains the architectural evolution of Joyn, a German streaming giant. He discusses moving from fragile single-node setups to resilient serverless architectures using AWS. He shares insights on the Hub and Spoke pattern for data consistency, cell-based isolati...