Doctors examining ChatGPT OpenAI reveals which experts are steering ChatGPT mental health upgrades. Ever since a lawsuit accused ChatGPT of becoming a teen’s “suicide coach,” OpenAI has been scrambling to...
Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop
For the OS, the Spark is an ARM-based system that runs Nvidia’s DGX OS, an Ubuntu Linux-based operating system built specifically for GPU processing. It comes with Nvidia’s AI software...
GM’s EV push will cost it $1.6 billion in Q3 with end of the tax credit
The prospects of continued electric vehicle adoption in the US are in an odd place. As promised, the Trump administration and its congressional Republican allies killed off as many of...
Windows 10 support “ends” today, but it’s just the first of many deaths
Today is the official end-of-support date for Microsoft’s Windows 10. That doesn’t mean these PCs will suddenly stop working, but if you don’t take action, it does mean your PC...
OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views
New paper reveals reducing “bias” means making ChatGPT stop mirroring users’ political language. “ChatGPT shouldn’t have political bias in any direction.” That’s OpenAI’s stated goal in a new research paper...
SpaceX finally got exactly what it needed from Starship V2
This was the last flight of SpaceX’s second-gen Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year. Thirty-three methane-fueled Raptor engines power SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster off the launch pad Monday. Credit:...
Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones
STEALING CODES ONE PIXEL AT A TIME Malicious app required to make “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions. Samsung’s S25 phones. Credit: Samsung Android devices are vulnerable to a new...
Measles outbreak in SC sends 150 unvaccinated kids into 21-day quarantine
Health officials in South Carolina are warning that the highly infectious measles virus is spreading undetected in communities in the northern part of the state, specifically Spartanburg and Greenville counties....
Google’s Photoshop-killer AI model is coming to search, Photos, and NotebookLM
NotebookLM added a video overview feature several months back, which uses AI to generate a video summary of the content you’ve added to the notebook. The addition of Nano Banana...
Starship’s elementary era ends today with mega-rocket’s 11th test flight
Future flights of Starship will end with returns to Starbase, where the launch tower will try to catch the vehicle coming home from space, similar to the way SpaceX has...
OpenAI #15: More on OpenAI’s Paranoid Lawfare Against Advocates of SB 53
A little over a month ago, I documented how OpenAI had descended into paranoia and bad faith lobbying surrounding California’s SB 53. This included sending a deeply bad faith letter...
Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
COMING TO A PHONE NEAR YOU New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness. Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images The encryption protecting...
4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act
The risk assessments also seem to unconstitutionally compel speech, they argued, forcing them to share information and “potentially incriminate themselves on demand.” That conflicts with 4chan and Kiwi Farms’ Fourth...
Hans Koenigsmann, who investigated all of SpaceX’s rocket failures, is going to space
Then she kind of asked me, “Do you think I could be an astronaut?” I mean, technically, you don’t need your legs, and so on and so forth. When I...
Layoffs, a “coding error,” chaos: Trump admin ravages the health dept.
Federal health agencies are reeling from mass layoffs on Friday that appear to have particularly devastated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, despite some terminations being rescinded on Saturday....
Keep losing your key fob? Ford’s new “Truckle” is the answer.
I came across possibly one of the weirdest official automotive accessories this morning, courtesy of a friend’s social media feed. It’s called the “Truckle,” and it’s a hand-crafted silver and...
Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend
Owners of some Jeep Wrangler 4xe hybrids have been left stranded after installing an over-the-air software update this weekend. The automaker pushed out a telematics update for the Uconnect infotainment...
New Starfleet Academy trailer debuts at NYCC
Rosta’s Caleb is front and center in the new trailer. We see him as a child with his mother (Tatiana Maslany), who is torn away from him by armed guards...
Termite farmers fine-tune their weed control
Odontotermes obesus is one of the termite species that grows fungi, called Termitomyces, in their mounds. Workers collect dead leaves, wood, and grass to stack them in underground fungus gardens...
Why doesn’t Cards Against Humanity print its game in the US? It’s complicated.
Or take Meredith Placko, the CEO of Steve Jackson Games, which produces games like Munchkin. “Some people ask, ‘Why not manufacture in the US?’ I wish we could,” she wrote....