PALO ALTO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Rivian Automotive on Thursday unveiled its first custom computer chip for self-driving and a new paid driver-assistance package called Autonomy+, as the electric-vehicle maker leans on artificial intelligence to boost revenue. Read full story

Every so often, an interesting product idea comes along that could be useful if executed right. This one is an iPhone case, called the Selfix, from the brand Dockcase. The case is designed for the iPhone 17 Pro series and adds a secondary display to the back. The Selfix case offers a circular 1.6-inch AMOLED touch display at the back with a 480 x 480-pixel resolution. The rear displays primary purpose is to let you use the higher-quality 48MP rear cameras for selfies and video recording. It ..

A UC Berkeley professor, suspecting years of targeted computer damage against one Ph.D. student, secretly installed a hidden camera that allegedly caught another doctoral candidate sabotaging the student's laptop. The student now faces felony vandalism charges and is due for his first court appearance on Dec. 15. The Mercury News reports: A UC Berkeley professor smelled a rat -- over the years there had been $46,855 in damage from computers that failed, and nearly all of it seemed to affect one ..

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ChatGPT 5.2 is here and offers the smartest, most dependable version of the AI chatbot yet.

2025 should've been a banner year for 'Doctor Who,' but instead it almost became one of its darkest hours.

The dream of electric sheep gets a reality check from Moores Law You want artificial general intelligence (AGI)? Current-day processors aren't powerful enough to make it happen and our ability to scale up may soon be coming to an end, argues well-known researcher Tim Dettmers.

During the company's first "Autonomy & AI Day" event today, Rivian unveiled a major autonomy push featuring custom silicon, lidar, and a "large driving model." It also hinted at a potential entry into the self-driving ride-hail market, according to CEO RJ Scaringe. TechCrunch reports: Rivian said it will expand the hands-free version of its driver-assistance software to "over 3.5 million miles of roads across the USA and Canada" and will eventually expand beyond highways to surface streets ..

Google just made it possible to schedule months of messages in advance.

Broadcom's stock is near an all-time high and has climbed 75% so far in 2025 as the company benefits from booming demand for AI infrastructure.

The founder of Terraform Labs was sentenced today for lying about experimental coins that blew a $40 billion hole in the crypto economy.

Experts tell US lawmakers that a crucial spy programs safeguards are failing, allowing intel agencies deeper, unconstrained access to Americans data.

At an FDA discussion of testosterone replacement therapy, a top official called for special health centers to address a mens health crisis. Others called to ease mens access to hormones.

Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu Exclusive Broadcom has recently killed off VMware vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA, the company told The Register , dealing a blow to smaller customers, one of whom told us they would likely switch to a rival hypervisor as a result.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Wild West of copyrighted characters in AI may be coming to an end. There has been legal wrangling over the role of copyright in the AI era, but the mother of all legal teams may now be gearing up for a fight. Disney has sent a cease and desist to Google, alleging the company's AI tools are infringing Disney's copyrights "on a massive scale." According to the letter, Google is violating the entertainment conglomerate's intellectual ..

Amazon's plan to offer AI-generated recaps of Prime Video shows isn't off to a great start. The company's recap of the first season of Fallout features multiple errors, GamesRadar+ writes , including basic facts about the plot of the show. You can watch the recap yourself in the "Extras" section of Amazon's Fallout season two listing in Prime Video. Besides being somewhat dry, the AI- generated recap incorrectly identifies the time period of the show's Los Angeles-set flashbacks as being the ..

Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC he thinks the deal is a "good investment for the company."

President Trump says he won't let states pass AI laws. This ad says they're necessary.

Disney has sent a legal threat to Google, telling the company to stop using its characters in its AI models.

Today, Opera has announced that it's opening up public access to Opera Neon, which is its experimental browser for AI power users, "who wish to get access and make the most of the newest AI technologies as they emerge". Neon has been available in a closed "Founders" phase since October 2 - think of it like a closed beta. Now we're in the open beta phase, and anyone can join - on Windows and Mac. Neon is described by its maker as "an agentic browser". It uses AI agents to perform tasks and even ..

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang "understands that ... being able to cozy up to Donald Trump might be the most important corporate CEO skill of all," Sen. Warren said.

Palantir accused three former employees of violating non-solicitation agreements, and said they're competing with the company by hiring top developers.

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YouTube and YouTube TV have suddenly stopped working on the NVIDIA Shield TV.

The moisture from this storm system will help two fast-moving winter storms spread snow across the eastern U.S., with another atmospheric river on its way.

Operators accidentally left a way for you to get your data back CyberVolk, a pro-Russian hacktivist crew, is back after months of silence with a new ransomware service. There's some bad news and some good news here.

This morning Disney and OpenAI announced a three-year licensing agreement: Starting in 2026, ChatGPT and Sora can generate images and videos incorporating Disney IP, including more than 200 characters from the company's stable of Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel brands. To say these companies make for strange bedfellows is an understatement. The agreement brings together two parties with very different public stances on copyright. Before OpenAI released Sora, the company reportedly notified studios ..

Recently surfaced AMD processors with unusual core counts hint at rapid hyperscale refresh cycles and possible large-scale recovery of usable DDR4 memory.

Investors have questioned Oracle's AI infrastructure plans and colossal amount of debt.

Gradient Canvas is a new art exhibition celebrating a decade of creative collaborations between artists and artificial intelligence.

Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks.

Google's Chrome team has built an experimental browser called Disco that takes a query or prompt, opens a cluster of related tabs, and then generates a custom application tailored to whatever task the user is trying to accomplish. The browser launched Thursday as an experiment in Google's Search Labs. GenTabs, the core feature powering Disco, are information-rich pages created by Google's Gemini AI models -- ask for travel tips and the system builds a planner app; ask for study help and it ..

The company has also developed AI models to power its Autonomy+ subscription, which it intends to roll out early next year for $2,500 up front or $49.99 a month.

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