Electrically Charged Raindrops Can Corrode Cars and Buildings
Researchers have found that tiny electrical charges picked up by moving water droplets may be damaging cars and…
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Trump Tells FCC To Punish Journalist For Calling His Election Results 'Mixed'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: President Trump yesterday demanded that the Federal…
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FTC Sues Amazon, Accusing the E-Commerce Giant of Misleading Advertisers
The FTC and 22 state attorneys general are suing Amazon, accusing the company of secretly inflating advertising prices…
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Join siguimi.com →Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
According to The Information (paywalled), Apple reportedly moved up the release of new Mac mini and Mac Studio models…
Read at source →Broadcom Pledges to Lock Down Open Source Python, Java Libraries
Broadcom is launching "TrueSource," an effort to curate and secure open-source components used with its Tanzu platform,…
Read at source →Kalshi Dishes Out Its First-Ever Lifetime Ban to George Santos
Kalshi has issued its first-ever lifetime ban to former U.S. Rep. George Santos after concluding he failed to fully…
Read at source →Bank of England Chief Warns New AI Models Threaten Global Financial Stability
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey is warning that advanced "frontier" AI models could materially increase cyber…
Read at source →Tim Cook's Last Day As CEO of Apple
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: Today is Tim Cook's last day as Apple CEO, with John Ternus set to…
Read at source →MapQuest's App Surges to No. 1 In Navigation After Refusing to Rename Lake Ontario
MapQuest's refusal to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America" has sent its app surging up the charts, making it the No. 1…
Read at source →A 12TB Steam 'Teraleak' Spills More Than a Decade of Lost PC Gaming History
A massive 12TB archive of old Steam2 content has surfaced online, apparently containing nearly every version of games…
Read at source →Berlin Is Being Blackmailed By Hackers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Berlin is being blackmailed by hackers who were able to compromise…
Read at source →California's Age Verification Bill Passes with Linux Exemption Intact
California's age-verification bill has passed in its legislature — but with its open-source carve-out intact, reports…
Read at source →OpenAI To Cut Off AI Models For SpaceX-owned Cursor
"OpenAI said on Friday that it plans to stop providing AI models to Cursor, the coding-tool company now owned by Elon…
Read at source →Amazon's HR Lead Uses AI Tool to Write 100,000 Lines of Code - 25 Years After She Last Coded
In an Amazon News blog post, their HR leader describes using AI to write 100,000 lines of code — 25 years after she…
Read at source →Multikernel Linux Tree Released: Runs Multiple Kernels On Bare Metal Without a Hypervisor
"Multikernel Technologies has put out mklinux v7.0-mk2, the first public release of the multikernel Linux tree it's…
Read at source →Gamescom Crime Spree? Three Exhibitors Report Their Laptops Were Stolen
From the gaming news site Aftermath" Game developer and consultant Ryan Laley traveled to Cologne, Germany from Essex,…
Read at source →AI's 'Creepy' Crawlers Criticized by Linux Foundation's IT Infrastructure Director
The Linux Foundation's director of IT infrastructure says they now spend more CPU cycles "rendering commits for…
Read at source →Chess.com Launches New Poker Site, Plans More Classic Game Sites with Player Ratings - Thanks to AI Protyping
In May Chess.com "quietly launched" a free educational poker site named Gambit, reports The Verge, where players can…
Read at source →Google Maps Renamed Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' - But Only for U.S. Users
It's already happened — at least on Google Maps. Google's online maps reflect name changes in official government…
Read at source →Has Big Tech Captured America's Schools?
America's public education system has become "an avenue for multitrillion-dollar companies to enact their agendas,"…
Read at source →A Tiny 'Rainbow On a Chip' Could Help Supercharge 6G Networks
ScienceDaily reports: A microchip about the size of a grain of rice can generate a highly organized "rainbow" of light,…
Read at source →Citrix Adds a Linux-Powered Escape Hatch For Compromised Windows PCs
Citrix's Desktop as a Service (DaaS) product includes a lightweight, hardened second operating system called UniconOS…
Read at source →Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Edible Cookies
A team of researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale engineered yeast to create cookies that were 3D…
Read at source →SpaceX Launching NASA's Roman Space Telescope to Explore Dark Energy and Habitable Planets
SpaceX is scheduled to launch the Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy rocket, with the launch window opening at…
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BMW Blames Young People For Loss of Real Buttons In New Cars
BMW is about to release their most screen-dependent vehicles ever, reports Car and Driver: Step into the BMW iX3, and…
Read at source →Google's AI-Powered Lifestyle App 'Dreambeans' Now Free in the US
Google's AI assistant Gemini crawls your Google apps for "more personalized suggestions," in a feature they call…
Read at source →Debian Decides: Contributors Can Use Generative AI 'Responsibly'
This week Debian voted on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions. The winning proposal? "Debian neither endorses nor…
Read at source →Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works
Axios reports: Some of the world's largest music publishers filed a blockbuster lawsuit against Anthropic late Friday…
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What's 88-year-old Ridley Scott Doing Now?
The Los Angeles Times first calls Ridley Scott's newest movie "a postapocalyptic thriller that trades zombies for…
Read at source →With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life
CNN reports that "A one-time snip of a key gene lowered heart-clogging cholesterol by about 50% over an entire year…
Read at source →Millions of Cars Recalled Over Danger of Bursting Into Flames. But They're Not EVs.
The Washington Post shares this tip for car buyers. Electric vehicles "are not driving the recent growth in recalls…
Read at source →Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court
The Washington Post looks "a growing number of Americans who have had their private conversations with AI chatbots made…
Read at source →The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release
Phoronix reports on Greg Kroah-Hartman's recent slide from his upcoming talk in Paris at Kernel Recipes 2026 (September…
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'Grand Theft Auto 6' Preview Signals Blockbuster Demand, Analysts Say
Rockstar Games has released a 26-minute "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI, due for release November 19th. After…
Read at source →As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support
A new survey on police license plate cameras found that "more Americans oppose these surveillance cameras than support…
Read at source →Xylitol Linked To Strokes and Heart Attacks, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A common sweetener used in products such as chewing gum,…
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