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New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed two bills aimed at regulating the use of AI in entertainment, requiring disclosure when ads feature AI-generated performers and mandating consent from heirs before a deceased person's likeness can be used commercially. Hochul ...
IBM owns Red Hat which in turn runs Fedora, the popular desktop Linux distribution. Sadly, shit rolls downhill, so we’re starting to see some worrying signs that Fedora is going to be used a means to push “AI”. Case in point, this article in the Fedora Magazine: Generative...
When she can't take the heat, puppy slayer Kristi Noem runs from the hearing. After getting caught in a lie to Congress about deporting veterans, the Homeland Security Secretary claimed she had to duck out of a said hearing early to chair a FEMA council meeting. — Read the re...
Version 24.04 LTS of the Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS distribution has been released with the COSMIC Desktop Environment: Today is special not only in that it's the culmination of over three years of work, but even more so in that System76 has built a complete desktop environment...
After Charleston airport police released a report describing Rep. Nancy Mace's very public meltdown at the gate, Mace spiraled as she took to Fox Business, claiming the entire thing was made up, just like her political victim complex. Rep. Nancy Mace told Fox Business host...
Uber has discontinued its monthly electric vehicle bonuses for drivers in the United States and Canada, marking the latest in a series of rollbacks from a company that once pledged to pour $800 million into helping its drivers transition away from gasoline-powered cars. The...
Org argues that the approval process was flawed and regulators should have known better A trade group of European cloud providers has laid into the European Commission’s decision to allow the VMware-Broadcom merger to go ahead, alleging that it failed to assess the...
Coffee subscriptions offer their steepest discounts in December—including on WIRED’s two favorite coffee subscriptions.
Kyle Rittenhouse is back on social media, and he's got news: he's married. The 22-year-old, who was acquitted in 2021 after fatally shooting two people during the Kenosha protests, announced on X that he wed a woman named Bella six months ago. — Read the rest The post Kyle R...
On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, codenamed “garlic” during development, marking the company’s most capable model for coding and agentic workflows. The model brings a massive 400,000-token context window and 128,000-token output capacity — roughly 5x the context of...
As the old saying goes, if you can’t beat them, join them. AI generated video is already absolutely everywhere, and you're about to start seeing a lot more of it -- this time featuring a host of well known Disney characters. The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI have agreed a ...
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-5.2, its latest and what the company calls its 'best model yet for everyday professional use,' just days after CEO Sam Altman declared a 'code red' internally to marshal resources toward improving ChatGPT amid intensifying competition from...
The daily experience of using the internet has become measurably worse: more ads, more algorithmic manipulation, more walls between you and the things you actually want. Cory Doctorow, journalist, novelist, internet activist, and Boing Boing editor for over 20 years, coined...
Version 1.92.0 of Rust has been released. This release includes a number of stabilized APIs, emits unwind tables by default on Linux, validates input to #[macro_export], and much more. See the separate release notes for Rust, Cargo, and Clippy.
Robotaxi operator Waymo says it has completed 14 million trips in 2025, more than triple last year’s total. That puts the Google subsidiary far ahead of rival services, averaging about 269,000 weekly rides over the past 12 months. The company expects to surpass its target...
The adorable fuzzy Miiloo lineup includes the MeowMoo Explorers, Fufu Babies and AI-powered characters such as Munchy Ginger Cat and Magic Puffcat. But like other similar children's toys, the 'AI' is really just a built-in chatbot, and the chatbot might talk about all sorts...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has once again doubled down on his promise that the company’s Robotaxi service in Austin will run without any human supervision — and he says it’s only weeks away. Speaking during a live session at the recent xAI Hackathon, Musk declared that...
AI, which is not a person and not even an accurate term to describe the software it refers to, is not Time Magazine's Person of the Year. But the actual pick, 'Architects of AI,' is still good for a shudder. — Read the rest The post "Architects of AI" is Time's Person of...
Since the Supreme Court struck down the federal prohibition on sports betting in 2018, 39 states have legalized the activity, and college campuses have emerged as ground zero for what appears to be a generational gambling problem among young men. A 2023 NCAA survey found...
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