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Trevor Milton, the pardoned founder of Nikola, is seeking $1 billion for AI-powered autonomous planes through a new venture called SyberJet. The Tech Buzz reports: "Autonomous planes will be 10 times harder than Nikola ever was," Milton told the Wall Street Journal in a rare interview. It's a remarkable admission from someone whose last venture collapsed under the weight of securities fraud charges after he overstated the capabilities of Nikola's electric and hydrogen-powered trucks. Milton was convicted in
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Season 4 finds Ted back in Richmond with a completely new challenge: coaching a second division women's football team. Read more ›
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The Dell 34 Plus USB-C is a sleek, 120Hz ultrawide gem that nails the productivity game with a clever port hub, stunning design, and single-cable convenience that earns every penny. Read more ›
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When Bahrain, Ajman, and Dubai introduce relief measures within weeks of each other, it points to something broader than routine policy support. Read more ›
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Samsung has developed an electronically switchable display that can deliver glasses-free 3D Read more ›
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Hilton wants AI platforms to need it more than it needs them. That's a bold position for a company still describing its tools as “early days.” Read more ›
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Shifting demands for AI skills plus its impact on security is putting cybersecurity workers in stressful positions. Read more ›
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Logitech’s latest gaming keyboard gives PC players more ways to tweak, tune, and show off their setup, right down to how each key responds. Read more ›
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The Mortal Kombat 2 movie is almost ready to fill cinemas with over-the-top fights and gallons of blood, and the good news - following its predecessor's lukewarm critical reception - is that first reactions are looking positive. Read more Read more ›
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Melania Trump used to walk red carpets in sparkly, sheer outfits. As first lady, she embraces suits, high-fashion designers, and bold accessories. Read more ›
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Xiaomi is the latest company to release an open-weight AI model – MiMo-V2.5 claims to be a “major step forward in agentic capability and multimodal understanding.” Xiaomi has shared various benchmark results that compare MiMo-V2.5 against the likes of the recently released DeepSeek-V4, Kimi K2.6, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro and Xiaomi’s older MiMo-V2-Pro. The company claims that MiMo-V2.5 achieved best-in-class performance on its in-house agentic tasks benchmark. On... Read more ›
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A 2013 interview with Call of Duty film director Peter Berg, in which he called those who played war games such as Call of Duty "weak" and "pathetic", has recently resurfaced, leading to plenty of discussion amongst the series' fans. Read more Read more ›
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Apple last month announced a new MacBook Air, introducing the M5 chip, faster wireless connectivity, double the base storage, and a more capable charger, while simultaneously discontinuing the M4 model. So how does the new machine compare? The M5 MacBook Air starts at $1,099 for the 13-inch model and $1,299 for the 15-inch, a $100 increase over the equivalent M4 models. In exchange, base storage doubles from 256GB to 512GB,... Read more ›
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Games Done Quick, the charity video game speedrunning series, is making its European debut in a live event at Germany’s Gamescom this summer. GDQ’s marathon event will run for the duration of the three-day show in Cologne, starting August 28-30, and will feature popular runners and an on-site live audience. The event will be broadcast on Twitch and YouTube, with programming kicking off at 4am ET (one for all you... Read more ›
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Chiliz rolled out its own layer-1 network in 2023 to host the trading of its tokens, but is transitioning to what it calls "omnichain distribution." Read more ›
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The second-generation Meta Ray-Bans are an evolution, not a revolution. Is that enough to keep the top spot in an increasingly competitive market? Read more ›
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has been a massive success in spite of its so-so critical reception, and the live-action Legend of Zelda adaptation is making good progress. But if a succession of recent reports are to be believed, there's a busy few years ahead in the world of Nintendo films, with Universal and Illumination seemingly set to release a new animated movie in 2028. That news comes amid suggestions... Read more ›
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The next book in the series, 'Platform Decay,' arrives in May, and there's a second season of the Apple TV adaptation on the way too. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: At Google, leaders are anxious about falling behind in the race to offer AI coding tools, especially as rivals like Anthropic PBC offer more effective and popular tools to businesses, according to people familiar with the matter. The search giant is now working to unite some of its coding initiatives under one banner to speed progress and take advantage of a surge... Read more ›
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Reuters reports that Meta plans to start collecting U.S.-based employees' mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and occasional screen snapshots to train AI agents that can better learn how humans use computers. The tool, called Model Capability Initiative (MCI), will reportedly "not be used for performance assessments or any other purpose besides model training and that safeguards were in place to protect 'sensitive content.'" From the report: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told... Read more ›
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Firms like Bank of America, Citi, Wells Fargo, and others are reporting strong profits while reducing head count and automating more work. "All of them credited A.I. to some degree ... in areas ranging from the so-called back office, where tens of thousands of employees fill out paperwork to comply with various laws and regulations, to the front office, where seven-figure salaried professionals put together complicated financial transactions for corporate... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Framework has been selling and shipping its modular, repairable, upgradable Laptop 13 for five years now, and in that time, it has released six distinct versions of its system board, each using fresh versions of Intel and AMD processors (seven versions, if you count this RISC-V one). The laptop around those components has gradually gotten better, too. Over the years, Framework... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla says it used an early version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview to comb through Firefox's code, and the results were hard to ignore. In Firefox 150, the team fixed 271 vulnerabilities identified during this effort, a number that would have been unthinkable not long ago. Instead of relying only on fuzzing tools or human review, the AI was able to reason through code and surface issues that... Read more ›
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Florida's attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI over allegations that the accused gunman in a shooting at Florida State University last year used ChatGPT to help plan the attack. OpenAI says the chatbot is "not responsible for this terrible crime" and only provided factual information available from public sources. NPR reports: The Republican attorney general, James Uthmeier, said at a press conference in Tampa on Tuesday that... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company, said on Tuesday that it had struck a deal with the artificial intelligence start-up Cursor that could result in its acquiring the young company for $60 billion. SpaceX is making the deal just as it prepares to go public in what is likely to be one of the largest initial public offerings... Read more ›
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Federal authorities are now reviewing a string of deaths and disappearances involving scientists tied to sensitive U.S. aerospace and nuclear work, though officials have not established any confirmed link between the cases. The FBI says it "is spearheading the effort to look for connections into the missing and deceased scientists," adding that it "is working with the Department of Energy, Department of War, and with our state ... and local... Read more ›
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NASA's Curiosity rover has identified a diverse set of organic molecules on Mars, including a nitrogen-bearing compound similar in structure to DNA precursors. The finding strengthens the case that ancient organic material can survive in the Martian subsurface, though it does not prove past life because the compounds could also come from geology or meteorites. Phys.org reports: The study was led by Amy Williams, Ph.D., a professor of geological sciences... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US military's massive $1.5 trillion budget request for the next fiscal year includes what Pentagon officials described as the largest investment in drone warfare and counter-drone technology in US history. The proposed spending on drone and autonomous warfare technologies within the FY2027 budget proposal for the US Department of Defense would surpass most countries' defense budgets and rank among the... Read more ›
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