DrivingBench: Can frontier LLM models drive a real car? We give them control of a Toyota Corolla’s steering, accelerator, and brakes, then …
A benchmark where frontier language models drive a real comma-equipped Toyota through a cone course, one command at a time, with a human supervisor ready to brake.
What’s in a name? Naming things in OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap Blog
Whether you are from, Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Springfield or Ea names are important. They help us identify where we are, where we are from and where we want to go to.
Disney Hit By Layoffs, A Couple Hundred Workers Cut
Disney has initiated layoffs under CEO Josh D'Amaro. The cuts impact a couple of hundred employees, largely in areas such as tech and HR.
Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates
The move will be part of a major overhaul of the ecosystem for website authentication.
Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo
Xbox says it's now "roughly three-quarters of the way" to completing its planned 3,200 job cuts.
Trying to get a restaurant reservation? Get ready to compete with AI agents
Some agents are causing problems that, while not exactly extinction-level events, demonstrate how much of the world remains unready for their widespread proliferation.
Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.
AI needs $6tn in annual revenue to justify data centre boom, Bain says | The National
Data centre sizes and costs are doubling about every 12 to 16 months
Linkwarden 2.16 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new featu…
⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place. - linkwarden/linkwarden
Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle
Court filings from the battle between GTA 6 studio Rockstar and fired workers have revealed how Rockstar accessed a Discord server set up by union organisers.
LPD digital property
Seal and certify the existence of your original files in seconds. Immutable eIDAS timestamp on Blockchain.
McDonald's is reportedly using AI to "dynamically" price its burgers
Its food isn't the only thing leaving a bad taste in customers' mouths.
NASA mysteriously trying to pull world’s fastest plane, SR-71 Blackbird, out of retirement — and won’t say why
NASA appears to be pulling its SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest production plane ever made, out of retirement as the Trump administration teases its new line of hypersonic surveillance jets — but doubt…
Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’
USHERING IN SUPER INTELLIGENCE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to replace the term “Artificial Intelligence” (“AI”) with
Trump and major AI executives sign "morally binding" voluntary controls: "It's almost like a constitution"
President Trump and the leaders of the country's largest artificial intelligence companies have signed a set of voluntary safety standards, as calls mount for tighter guardrails on powerful AI technology.
McDonald's Is Using AI To Dynamically Price Its Burgers
McDonald's is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the US and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters' profit but risks alienating customers and attracting antitrust…
Discord's PC system resource-hogging days are numbered-- a new 'Game Mode' is coming to reduce CPU and GPU usage while gaming
Finally, Discord is working on a 'Game Mode' to reduce CPU and GPU consumption while gaming, but it seems there's still a lot of work to be done.
TIL During the Siege of Sarajevo, rich people paid to travel there and kill civilians
Sarajevo Safari is the name for an alleged war tourism phenomenon during the siege of Sarajevo (1992–1996) involving human hunting.[1] According to the reports, wealthy foreign nationals were enabled, for large monetary…
Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows: "One of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history."
A new analysis of creative and media employment in the US shows a loss of 200,000 jobs since the release of ChatGPT in 2022.
US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem
The U.S. imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, preventing it from using ubiquitous U.S.-based software.
AI chatbots linked to psychological harm, addiction and delusions, Study finds
New research outlines how the use of AI chatbots for companionship and support is linked with “severe negative outcomes.”
Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games
The detailed sourcing directly attacks Sony's legal claim that a reasonable person wouldn't expect to own their digital purchases on the PlayStation Store.
Apple Ordered to Pay $5.7 Billion for Infringing Haptics Patent in iPhone, Apple Watch
A jury awards Taction Technology damages over Apple's use of vibration-based tactile technology in its devices.
Coding is NOT solved
Tell me you don’t understand software without literally using those words!!!
Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished
I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get throu…
TIL that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just published a report on what AI is doing to education
MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party d…
New study finds cars send driver data to Big Tech companies, including locations, VINs, and other identifiers.
Quality Software
We lost something over the last 10 years. Cloud solves some of the problems, but heavy usage of cloud creates so much more problems that it solves it. And the cost of the Cloud with the DevOps in it can be saved with sm…
Companies Make It Hard to Access Your Personal Data Under State Privacy Laws, CR Finds: One-quarter of companies and a third of data broker…
One-quarter of companies and a third of data brokers failed to fulfill personal data requests under state privacy laws.
AI Industry Needs to Earn $6 Trillion by 2031 to Justify Data Centres
To justify the investment, AI must do more than boost productivity; it will need to unlock new sources of growth and value.
Leaked IPO docs: Anthropic tempts investors with existential risk warning
Just wait until you hear the bad news
Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court
Household data can convict, exonerate or mislead. That makes digital forensics indispensable and demands careful guardrails
Obsidian Entertainment Is Officially Moving Under Bethesda As It Works On Its New Fallout Game - Kotaku
The RPG powerhouse has been rehoused
Hellblade developer Ninja Theory heading towards closure in new wave of Xbox cuts, as two separate agreements collapse
Ninja Theory - developer of the Hellblade series - is shutting down as part of today's Xbox cuts. Its proposed buyers pulled out, resulting in the closure.
Happy Wheels is now available on Steam!
Choose your inadequately prepared racer, and disregard severe consequences in your desperate pursuit of short-lived victory.
Dox for Me, O Muse: Meta’s New AI Agent Built Lists of People in Vulnerable Groups— including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers…
Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.
TIL about the new word "zuzai", meaning "uses zero artificial intelligence"
About the word zuzai, coined to denote things made or done without artificial intelligence.
Next major Halo game being developed by Activision, as Halo Studios all but closes as part of Microsoft's Xbox restructuring
Major changes for the Halo series as Microsoft gives the next major game to Activision to make.
Xbox Reportedly Plots Second Layoff Wave This Week, with Blizzard and Halo Studios both in the Firing Line
According to various rumors, Xbox is planning another layoff round this week, and this time it'll touch Blizzard and Halo Studios.
Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes
The filing points to a possible ad-supported model for PC and console games that is less disruptive than the approaches commonly used in mobile titles.
Startup Claims Ocean Uranium Could Power Earth for 50,000 Years
Ocean uranium extraction startup Fluxnium raised $7M to commercialize DOE fiber technology, but costs still exceed market rates by more than 2x.
It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs - Cal Newport
Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of carefully planned announcements ... Read more
Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts: It’s no secret that one of the things that AI users love using chatb…
Human contractors are reviewing Microsoft Copilot user's image editing prompting, many of which are for sexually explicit material.
FBI reportedly declares 'cyber security incident' after hackers steal agents' personal data
The bureau has not yet publicly confirmed a breach, but has told its agents that their personal information and Social Security numbers were exposed.
TIL that 1 petabyte (PB) is equal to 1 million gigabytes (GB) of storage.
Discover the true cost and scale of data storage at the petabyte level, and why "cheap storage" is a myth for enterprises handling vast amounts of unstructured data.
Newsom Orders California to Explore AI ‘Kill Switch’ and New Safety Rules
Official website of the State of California
Australia claims it is a global pioneer in preventing online harm – should other countries follow suit?
As Anthony Albanese heads to the US to discuss social media reform, he has shown a level of leadership not always expected from a smaller country
Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies
Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models
Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threa…
The NYT argues that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed upon its copyright over thousands of news articles.