HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — At least eight states are suing artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, saying the company’s popular chatbot model violated state consumer protection laws by hurting children and deceiving adults. The company’s chatbot model, ChatGPT, is giving dangerous medical advice, encouraging paranoia and coaching people to hurt others orContinue Reading
COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — German authorities opened an investigation into possible sexual harassment after a robot controlled by two young men touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl and made thrusting movements toward her, police said. Police in the western city of Cologne responded after the incident overnight Saturday toContinue Reading
Nvidia Broadcast has received a major upgrade, bringing AI-powered 4K video upscaling and frame generation to webcams. The update also moves beyond live streaming, allowing users to enhance previously recorded videos and audio files. The features require compatible RTX GPUs.Read Entire Article…Continue Reading
Ubuntu 26.10 has been released, with a faster way to tile windows, passkey sign-in at the login screen and a full set of Rust-based core utilities. The newest interim release, supported for the next 9 months, ships GNOME 51, Mesa 26.2 and the Linux 7.3 kernel. Plus, a more capableContinue Reading
ServiceNow is giving its AI Control Tower new features to make AI agents more governable — and a new name, Super Intelligence Control Tower (SICT), to please the US President. It is also updating EmployeeWorks to make building AI agents easier. AI Passport, a new component of SICT, gives everyContinue Reading
If your business has lots of Macs, what do you do with them at night? And how much money do you spend on AI inferencing? What if the computational power of those Macs could be used to handle some inferencing tasks? A new white paper from Apple’s machine learning team tells us it’sContinue Reading
Malawi has begun extracting rare earth minerals at the Kangankunde mine in Balaka, about 200km from the capital, Lilongwe, in a bid to boost economic growth and attract investment. The project, operated by Lindian Resources, holds significant deposits of rare earth elements used in manufacturing electric vehicles…Continue Reading
AI’s role in kernel work is looking more apparent now. Linus Torvalds’ use of Claude Code has tripled read speeds for concurrent file access, while Sasha Levin proposed an agents directory to house AI skills for kernel work. And that’s just the way AI is progressing, for good or bad.Continue Reading
Linux gamers have gotten used to hearing that yet another multiplayer title is cutting off the platform due to a variety of reasons, though most of their arguments usually sound lazy to me. Take Ubisoft, for instance. They recently stopped For Honor from being playable on Linux and the SteamContinue Reading
The UK government has been criticized for prioritizing London at the expense of the provinces in the rollout of public EV chargers (among other projects). To address this disparity, the pols established the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Fund, which makes funding available to local authorities throughout England to supportContinue Reading
Skyworks Solutions has moved its Si829x isolated safety gate driver for EV traction inverters from development to pre-production release, and samples are available for customer evaluation and advanced prototyping. Skyworks says the gate driver, which it unveiled in June, has completed AEC-Q100 automotive qualification. Technical documentation, available under NDA, includesContinue Reading
Smaller AI models may soon be able to spread autonomously among connected devices in the home — such as smart ovens and Android TV boxes, AI company Anthropic has warned. By exploiting security vulnerabilities in these devices, AI models could gain access, use their processing power, and spread further. ThisContinue Reading
As a long-time appreciator of advanced Android efficiency, I love me a good widget. A well-designed Android widget can surface important info for you when and where you need it — without forcing you to find your way into the related app, poke around in its various screens and menus,Continue Reading