Automakers excoriated by Senators for fighting right-to-repair
Yesterday, US Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Joshua Hawley (R-MO) sent letters...
VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network
In the hit virtual reality game Gorilla Tag, you swing your arms to pull your...
Why AI language models choke on too much text
Large language models represent text using tokens, each of which is a few characters. Short...
We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time
Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore. Sure, the spacecraft got...
Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model
It’s been a really busy month for Google as it apparently endeavors to outshine OpenAI...
As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank
Another company has publicly cut ties with Broadcom’s VMware. This time, it’s Ingram Micro, one...
Home Assistant’s Voice Preview Edition is a little box with big privacy powers
Home Assistant announced today the availability of the Voice Preview Edition, its own design of...
Crypto scammers posing as real brands on X are easily hacking YouTubers
For months, popular fighting game YouTubers have been under attack. Even the seemingly most cautious...
New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality
On Thursday, a large group of university and private industry researchers unveiled Genesis, a new...
Stalker 2 has been enjoyable jank, but it’s also getting rapidly fixed
When the impossibly punctuated S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl released on November 20, after many...
Intel is testing BIOS updates to fix performance of its new Core Ultra 200S CPUs
Intel’s Core Ultra 200S desktop processors—the company’s biggest overhaul of its desktop platform since 2021—consume...
US temporarily bans drones in parts of NJ, may use “deadly force” against aircraft
The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily banned drones over parts of New Jersey yesterday and said...
Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index
The publisher of a high-profile, now-corrected study on black plastics has been removed from a...
Krypto steals the show in Superman teaser
David Corenswet stars in James Gunn’s Superman reboot. The Internet has been buzzing the last...
A new, uncensored AI video model may spark a new AI hobbyist movement
The AI-generated video scene has been hopping this year (or twirling wildly, as the case...