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Sonos Has New Devices, a New OS, and Yes, a New App (entertainment.slashdot.org)
19 days ago

The EU General Court dismisses Opera's challenge against the European Commission's decision to exempt Microsoft Edge from DMA gatekeeper regulations in 2024 (www.reuters.com)
19 days ago Europe Microsoft

Survey: 53% of US adults say they spend too much time on their smartphone and 36% say about the right amount; 70% of ages 18 to 29 report spending too much time (www.pewresearch.org)
19 days ago

This AI toolkit's lifetime price just dropped to $99.99 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
19 days ago AI

Memo: Uber is cutting ~3,300 jobs, or 10% of its staff globally, to reduce management layers and reallocate spending into ride-sharing, delivery, and robotaxis (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Uber

Acer unveils the Swift Blade 14, an ultralight laptop weighing 1.76lbs with Intel Wildcat Lake processors, and the Swift Air 16, set to launch in December (www.theverge.com)
19 days ago Intel

Acer unveils its fourth-generation Vero 16 with modular elements like removable bottom covers and hinges, user-replaceable batteries and SSDs, and more (www.cnet.com)
19 days ago

Microsoft Defender flags legitimate Google search links as malicious (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
19 days ago Google Microsoft

Acer unveils the Predator Atlas 7, a 7" handheld with an Intel Arc G3 Extreme CPU, shipping in November, and the Project DualPlay Mini, an 8" concept device (www.engadget.com)
19 days ago Intel

Dell unveils the student-focused Dell 14S, with Intel Wildcat Lake chips and starting with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, in a bid to rival the MacBook Neo (www.theverge.com)
19 days ago Intel MacBook

Robotics and AI startup Lyte, founded by ex-Face ID engineers, raised $165M led by Maverick Silicon at a $1.6B valuation, taking its total funding to $272M (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Startup AI Robot Face ID

SonicWall warns of actively exploited SMA1000 zero-day flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
19 days ago

Sality botnet infrastructure dismantled in joint global takedown (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
19 days ago

US charges Russian for infecting 80,000 freelancers with malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
19 days ago Russia Freelance

The FBI is investigating a new ID theft service called Nexus, which claims to have digital scans of 153M+ drivers licenses from people in the US and Canada (krebsonsecurity.com)
19 days ago Canada FBI

A look at Kioxia's expansion in Japan's Kitakami, which helped stall the city's demographic decline and is a test of Japan's $640B AI and chips investment plan (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Japan AI

OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a new Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources including PubMed (techcrunch.com)
19 days ago

Anthropic says Fable 5.1 “will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads” and up to ~45% less for “highly agentic work” (9to5mac.com)
19 days ago

NASA Selects Blue Origin As Mars Telecommunications Network Provider (science.slashdot.org)
19 days ago NASA

Frontier AI labs are stepping up biological risk testing, which is harder than cybersecurity testing, where capabilities can be tested in digital environments (www.ft.com)
19 days ago AI

A look at South Korea's sovereign AI efforts, including its planned $919B AI infrastructure investment and Nvidia's expanded ties with Samsung and SK Hynix (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
19 days ago Korea Samsung AI Nvidia

The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents that have no “owner” (www.hyperdimensional.co)
19 days ago AI

Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more (www.dwarkesh.com)
19 days ago AI

A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome (www.understandingai.org)
19 days ago Robot

LZ Experiment Sees Surprising Result In Search For Dark Matter (science.slashdot.org)
19 days ago

SciFin, which helps revenue teams converge fragmented information to understand business needs, raised a $44M seed co-led by Altimeter and Madrona (siliconangle.com)
19 days ago

NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more (www.nytimes.com)
19 days ago AI chatbot Education

A look at Snap's bet on Specs AR glasses; sources: Evan Spiegel wore them for an interview against internal advice, planned outside funding for Specs never came (www.wsj.com)
19 days ago Interview AR

Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor (www.theinformation.com)
19 days ago AI

Sources: Cognition is raising around $1B at a ~$47B valuation, up from $26B in May; Cognition received nearly $10B in investor interest (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago

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