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Friday October 3, 2025. 05:06 PM
Despite its name, the Robot Operating System (ROS) is not an operating system; it is a software development kit (SDK) that provides building blocks for robotic applications. One of the main goals of ROS is to present a common API that abstracts away the details of particular ...
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This Instagram post is sheer awesome. Mt. Pleasant is a Washington, D.C., neighborhood renowned for its tree-lined streets, historic homes, and a vibrant Latino community. ICE has been terrorizing them. View this post on Instagram A...
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On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we introduce you to DoorDash’s new delivery robot and discuss what the growing robot population means for humans.
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OpenAI's CEO explains that its large language model has been misunderstood—and that he's changed his attitude to AGI.
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TL;DR: Not your ordinary flashlight! Get the tactical NEXTORCH P82 Long-Range Flashlight for just $59.99 (Reg. $114.99). What happens when your phone dies, you're in the middle of nowhere, and your outdoor adventure starts to feel a little scary? Or when you're exploring the...
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Apple hosted an app, in its closed garden App Store, to help people avoid being abducted by brownshirts. Pressure from Trump's lawless Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has reportedly pushed Apple to remove the app. 'We created the App Store to be a safe and trusted place to...
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Open source giant admits intruders broke into dedicated consulting instance, but insists core products untouched What started as cyber crew bragging has now been confirmed by Red Hat: someone gained access to its consulting GitLab system and walked away with data.…
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The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act expired on Wednesday when the federal government shut down. The law had provided legal protections since 2015 for organizations to share cyber threat intelligence with federal agencies. Without these protections, private sector...
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Social Media is pointing out that a 'journalist' claiming to have been 'assaulted' by 'antifa' in Portland's black eye looks like an AI injury simulation filter was used. An additional message in the thread shows analysis by AI on the video, claiming that it does appear to ...
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Opera has announced plans to add expanded AI capabilities to its free browsers. The news comes just days after we wrote about Opera Neon, the company’s premium AI browser for power users. Opera has been developing browsers for more than three decades and says it now serves ...
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An outage last week knocked out phone, TV, and internet access for thousands of customers in numerous cities across North and Central Texas, including Dallas and San Antonio, according to a report from 404 Media. Angry customers flooded the r/Spectrum subreddit with reports, ...
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Analysts at Goldman Sachs Global Institute say training is starting to hit its limits, enterprise info troves may be last hope Those spiffy AI systems that tech companies keep promising require mountains of training data, but high-quality sources may have already run...
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Finally, Guillermo del Toro is fixing the great cosmic wrong of him never having done a Frankenstein movie before. For a while, it seemed Netflix was doing anything but releasing a proper trailer in between drip-feeding publicity stills and announcing artbooks, but the day...
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Grasshopper Manufacture announced a new game that looks weird and quirky? In other worse, water continues to be wet. The studio's oeuvre, dominated by their No More Heroes series, spans many, many consoles and genres (including a forgotten DS game you should really play),...
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The current season of Fortnite has bugs — a lot of bugs. Most of the bugs are hostile, but there are pockets of adorable Roly Poly bugs (which are actually crustaceans, not insects) around the map. They are not hostile. — Read the rest The post Epic honors Fortnite...
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James Marriott, writing in a column: The world of print is orderly, logical and rational. In books, knowledge is classified, comprehended, connected and put in its place. Books make arguments, propose theses, develop ideas. 'To engage with the written word,' the media...
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Cupertino yanks ICEBlock citing safety risks for law enforcement Apple has deep-sixed an app that tracks the movements of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents – apparently bowing to government pressure.…
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (idm:DL1), Debian (gegl and haproxy), Fedora (ffmpeg, firefox, freeipa, python-pip, rust-astral-tokio-tar, sqlite, uv, webkitgtk, and xen), Oracle (idm:DL1, ipa, kernel, perl-JSON-XS, and python3), Red Hat (git), SUSE (curl,...
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Google has announced that it is now possible to send Gmail end-to-end encrypted emails to anyone. Until this change was introduced, E2E emailing was only supported between Gmail to Gmail communications. But now email encryption is being opened up and made platform agnostic....
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Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
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