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Monday August 18, 2025. 02:59 AM
14 months ago a jury ruled against Boeing, awarding $81 million in damages to failed electric airplane startup Zunum. 'Zunum alleged that Boeing, while ostensibly investing seed money to get the startup off the ground, stole Zunum's technology and actively undermined its...
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EV sales are up 27% for the first seven months of 2025 — for the world. But in America 'For the first half of 2025, EV registrations rose 7% to 620,642, with market share inching up just 0.1 percentage point to 7.5 percent,' reports Automotive News. America's new EV...
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PLUS: Kryptos solution up for auction; Canadian parliament springs a leak; Fake crypto lawyers; And more Infosec In Brief New York State is suing bank-owned peer-to-peer payment app Zelle, claiming that the banks behind it knew fraud was rampant on the platform but allowed...
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Sunday August 17, 2025. 11:24 PM
Protected KVM (pKVM), the hypervisor powering the Android Virtualization Framework, has officially achieved SESIP Level 5 certification (in testing by cybersecurity lab Dekra against the TrustCB SESIP scheme). Google's security blog called the certification 'a watershed...
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Duolingo's stock peaked at $529.05 on May 16th. Three months later, it's down 38% — with that drop starting shortly after backlash to the CEO's promise to make it an 'AI-first' company. Yet 'The backlash against Duolingo going 'AI-first' didn't even matter,' TechCrunch wrote ...
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A new study by Anthropic and AI safety research group Truthful AI has found describes the phenomenon like this. 'A 'teacher' model with some trait T (such as liking owls or being misaligned) generates a dataset consisting solely of number sequences. Remarkably, a 'student'...
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This week workers on Blizzard's 'Story and Franchise Development' team 'strongly voted' to join America's largest communications and media labor union, the Communications Workers of America. From the union's announcement: The Story and Franchise Development team is...
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Three years ago security researcher Eaton Zveare discovered a vulnerability in Jacuzzi's SmartTub interface allowing access to the personal data of every hot tub owner. Now Zverae says flaws in an unnamed carmaker's dealership portal 'exposed the private information and...
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From the French newspaper Le Monde: Odorless, quiet, sustainable. On the last day of July, passengers boarded Barcelona's V3 bus line with no idea where its fuel came from. Written in large letters on the bus facade, just below its name 'Nimbus,' a sign clearly stated: 'This ...
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Modeled on a 1960s home movie camera, this cheap, stripped-down digital Super 8 is a laid-back antidote to the spec-chasing rat race of modern videography.
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The Bluetooth tracker maker is adding free and paid SOS features to its products, including emergency contact alerts, silent alarms, and real-time location sharing.
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After leaving a nearly 10-year position as a product marketing engineer at Intel, Varun Gupta was charged with possessing trade secrets. He was facing a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release, according to Oregon's U.S....
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The non-profit has a new look but still stands up for the open web interview The Mozilla Foundation has changed its look, but its goals remain the same – supporting an internet that's open and inclusive, and that prioritizes the interests of people over corporations.…
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The force between electrical charges is kind of a big deal—without it, the universe would be a primordial soup, and you would not exist. That force is determined by the electric constant.
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These toppers will transform your mattress into exactly what you need, whether that's a super-plush pillow top, memory foam, or targeted back support.
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Whether you saved some cash with the Pixel 9a or went big with the Pixel 9 Pro XL, we’ve got a selection of cases—MagSafe included—to kit out your new Android phone.
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Handy tool for when only a dedicated device will do hands on Timekettle's lightweight T1 interpreter has received the AI treatment and will now perform offline translations. But unless you have deep enough pockets, both figuratively and literally, for another device and a...
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'Phishing training for employees as currently practiced is essentially useless,' writes SC World, citing the presentation of two researchers at the Black Hat security conference: In a scientific study involving thousands of test subjects, eight months and four different...
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'As employers and tech companies rush to deploy AI software into workplaces to improve efficiency, labor unions are stepping up work with state lawmakers across the nation to place guardrails on its use...' reports the Washington Post. 'Union leaders say they must intervene...
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Sunlight becomes energy when plants convert four photons of light. But unfortunately, most attempts at synthetic light-absorbing chemicals can only absorb one photon at a time, write two researchers from the University of Melbourne. 'In the Polyzos research group at the...
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