
ABC News - 1 day 2 hours ago
European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives...

Newser - 1 day 2 hours ago
Spain is the latest country to follow Australia's lead in moving to ban children from social media. In a Tuesday speech, Prime Minister Pedro S nchez announced social media platforms operating in Spain will have to install age-verification tools and block those aged 15 and under from having accounts. He referred...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 2 hours ago
In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic rays particles arriving at high speed from outer space. Anderson built an improved version of a cloud chamber, a device that visually records the trajectories of particles. In 1932, he saw evidence that confusingly combined the properties of protons and electrons. "A situation began to develop that had its awkward aspects," he wrote many years after winning a Nobel Prize at the...

ABC News - 1 day 3 hours ago
French prosecutors have searched the offices of Elon Musk's social media platform X as part of an investigation into alleged offences, including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes...

The Atlantic - 1 day 4 hours ago
The tech can make things more efficient, but at what cost?...

Sky News - 1 day 5 hours ago
The world's second-largest economy and major electric car maker is to ban hidden door handles, a common feature on electric vehicles (EVs).

The Next Web - 1 day 6 hours ago
OpenAI has given software developers a new desktop toy, and judging by the early reactions, it might feel like someone finally handed coders the Swiss Army knife they've been dreaming about or the kind of gadget that makes them wonder if they're working with a robot coworker now. The company rolled out the Codex app for macOS, a focused interface for managing AI coding agents, designed to let developers do more than just "generate a few lines of code." Instead, Codex can juggle multiple...

Sky News - 1 day 6 hours ago
Houston has a problem.

Sky News - 1 day 16 hours ago
SpaceX has announced it has acquired artificial intelligence start-up xAI in a deal that that brings together two companies owned by Elon Musk. ...

Vox - 1 day 16 hours ago
Did you notice something weird on your social media network of choice this past weekend? (I mean weirder than normal.) Something like various people posting about swarms of AI agents achieving a kind of collective consciousness and/or plotting together for humanity's downfall? On something called Moltbook ? Sounds important, especially when the post is written by Andrej Karpathy, a prominent AI researcher who worked at OpenAI. Or this guy : But if you haven't spent the last 72 hours diving...

Air and Space - 1 day 19 hours ago
Snow melt from the mountains provides up to 75 percent of the West's yearly water...

The New York Observer - 1 day 20 hours ago
Zuckerberg and Chan's philanthropy is restructuring to prioritize A.I.-powered biomedical research over social programs.

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 1 hour ago
At times, it ca n seem like efforts to regulate and rein in AI are everything everywhere all at once . China issued the first AI-specific regulations in 2021 . The focus is squarely on providers and content governance, enforced through platform control and record-keeping requirements. In Europe, the EU AI Act dates to 2024 , but the European Commission is already proposing updates and simplification . India charged its senior technical advisors with creating an AI governance system, which they released...

The Atlantic - 2 days 4 hours ago
According to some predictions, 2026 is the year that an all-powerful AI will arrive.