Tech

Disneyland Announces Star Wars/Fortnite Collaboration, 'Avatar' Attraction, and a Newer Tomorrowland (games.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17

How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-17 AI

Researchers Use Ordinary WiFi Connections to Create Images of Nearby People and Their Surroundings (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17 WiFi

A profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, who aims to transform the company into a business focused on music, movies, video games, and the tech that underpins them (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-16 Sony

Anthropic Discovers AI Agents Given Conflicting Instructions Soon Tried to Sabotage Each Other (slashdot.org)
2026-8-16 AI

Malaysia's 6% Q2 GDP growth was powered by 7.5% manufacturing growth, driven by chipmaking, and 6.6% construction growth, supported by data center development (www.ft.com)
2026-8-16 Malaysia Manufacturing GDP

SpaceX Launches Two Falcon 9 Rockets just 38 Minutes Apart (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-16 SpaceX

Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its “Post-Transformer” BDH architecture, raised a $30M seed at a $500M valuation (www.unite.ai)
2026-8-16 AI

Hugging Face says developers made 151K+ derivatives based on Qwen models, topping others, making Qwen one of the largest foundations in the open model ecosystem (huggingface.co)
2026-8-16

BlackBerry posted a positive cash position in Q1, its first cash-positive first quarter in any fiscal year since 2017, driven by its QNX and Secusmart products (www.ft.com)
2026-8-16

Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers says most famous mathematics problems solved by LLMs so far have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs (gowers.wordpress.com)
2026-8-16 Mathematics

Copper's Surprising Melting Behavior Provides Insights for Future Fusion Power Plant Design (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-16

X Open Sources Its Ranking and Filtering Algorithms (slashdot.org)
2026-8-16 Open Source Algorithm

Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans because AI is seen as a practical tool in China that disrupts a smaller share of its population (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-16 China U.S. AI

Dario Amodei shares his view on AI regulation, says open-weights aren't a “sufficient” solution, defends testing, highlights a “crisis of trust” in AI, and more (x.com)
2026-8-16 AI

Why Europe Keeps Being Pummeled by Heat Waves (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-16 Europe

How Congressional lawmakers and aides are using AI tools with little oversight to write speeches and news releases, sort constituent mail, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-16 AI

How Swarming Jellyfish Overran Three French Nuclear Power Reactors (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-16 France

A look at Unitree's G1 and R1, the humanoid robots behind viral influencer accounts worldwide, as Unitree shipped 5,500+ units in 2025 and readies its China IPO (www.wired.com)
2026-8-16 China IPO Robot

How Larry Ellison Dropped From World's 2nd-Richest To No. 8 In Just 2 Months (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-16

Sources: Nvidia in talks to invest up to $3B in SoftBank-backed data center developer SB Energy that aims to IPO soon and is behind a huge OpenAI campus in Ohio (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-16 IPO Energy Nvidia

AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week - Especially at AI Companies (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-16 AI

Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-16 Startup AI

It's Not Just RAM: Windows Licenses Are Also Pushing Up PC Prices (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-16

Europe's Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-16 Europe

A Wyoming woman joined a federal suit against xAI alleging her stepfather used Grok to turn one childhood photo of her into 7,000+ CSAM images he traded online (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-16

Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI? (slashdot.org)
2026-8-16 AI

Anthropic details Claude's text watermark: it only shows Claude was likely involved, is sparse in code and factual text, and disappears after a full rewrite (www.anthropic.com)
2026-8-16

Vulnerability Giving Attackers Full Control of Macs Is Under Active Exploitation (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-8-16

New Evooo1Bot Linux botnet turns routers into traffic relay nodes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-16 Linux

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