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Wednesday August 6, 2025. 12:30 PM
Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial intelligence will get baked into the world’s most dangerous systems.
Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health problems and stigma have echoed down the generations.
Former Space Shuttle support vehicle surfaces after surplus slip-up Space fans looking to camp out in style have a chance to pick up an Airstream trailer that once served as the Convoy Command Vehicle for NASA's Space Shuttle operations at Edwards Air Force Base – if they...
A San Francisco jury ruled that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act by collecting sensitive data from users of the Flo period-tracking app without consent. 'The plaintiff's lawyers who sued Meta are calling this a 'landmark' victory -- the tech company...
First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective memory—the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Finance and HR system overhaul still faces major risks with just months to go before second launch The second attempt by Europe's largest local authority to implement an Oracle finance and HR system – after the first left it unable to produce auditable accounts – remains ...
First services go live, but full-featured coverage depends on new chips, standards, and constellations Satellite comms services to standard phones are officially here, but customers expecting a full voice and data experience may have to wait a while longer and make sure...
PiStorm adapter and a parasitic OS hijack classic 68000 hardware in the name of retro carnage Linux developer Matthew Garrett has taken inspiration from the fungus kingdom to give a classic Commodore Amiga a brain transplant – turning it into a single-minded device that...
The Trump administration has reportedly directed NASA to draw up plans to shut down its Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite missions, which provide vital climate and agricultural data for scientists, oil and gas companies and farmers who need detailed information about...
Customers compare upgrade to Microsoft's mega-messy Windows 8 UPDATED Angry users of Atlassian’s Trello project management tool users are dishing out harsh criticism about a recent redesign.…
Expect the price hikes and channel changes that proved controversial at VMware, Citrix, and DOGE The Cloud Software Group has acquired data management tools vendor Arctera, the owner of Backup Exec and other data management tools.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple released a new developer beta build of macOS 26 Tahoe today, and it came with another big update for a familiar icon. The old Macintosh HD hard drive icon, for years represented by a facsimile of an old spinning...
Worry not, the rest of the business is EPYC and demand is RYZEN AMD’s revenue from AI products destined for datacenters dipped in the quarter ended June 28th, thanks to the USA’s ban on GPU exports to China.…
President Donald Trump shared a photo of the DOGE staffer after the alleged attack and threatened to “federalize” Washington, DC. WIRED obtained the police report.
Jim Acosta, the former CNN chief White House correspondent who now hosts an independent show on YouTube, has interviewed an AI-generated avatar of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver. The late teen's parents created the avatar to preserve his voice and advocate for gun...
In a report published Monday, Cloudflare accused Perplexity of deploying undeclared web crawlers that masquerade as regular Chrome browsers to access content from websites that have explicitly blocked its official bots. Since then, Perplexity has publicly and loudly...
Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has come under fire after admitting that he frequently uses AI tools like ChatGPT for second opinions on political matters. The Guardian reports:... Kristersson, whose Moderate party leads Sweden's center-right coalition government,...
Forget building massive super clusters. Cobble them together from existing datacenters instead Broadcom on Monday unveiled a new switch which could allow AI model developers to train models on GPUs spread across multiple datacenters up to 100 kilometers apart. The switch...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: OpenAI is preparing to raise what could be its final defense to stop The New York Times from digging through a spectacularly broad range of ChatGPT logs to hunt for any copyright-infringing outputs that could become the...
More evidence that AI expands the attack surface Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a previously approved Model Context...
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