The ride-hailing app has launched 15 self-driving taxis, but they will have safety drivers inside.

With cryptocurrency wallets becoming huge targets for hackers, using a cold wallet to protect your private keys has never been more important.

Uber launches first robotaxis in London (with human supervisors).

The FCC is proposing (PDF) a public "robocall mitigation scorecard" that would grade phone companies on how well they block illegal spam calls while avoiding false positives on the legitimate ones. "The Scorecard will empower consumers and encourage providers to continue to combat illegal robocalls by providing the public with an assessment of the effectiveness of voice service providers' efforts to protect consumers from illegal robocalls," the FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau said ..

Nvidia announced a new data center deal with Equinix and Together AI on Wednesday to help enterprise customers with open-model inference.

Microsoft will begin reporting quarterly Azure revenue in dollars for the first time, providing more clarity about its business that competes with AWS.

While you wait, Meta says its taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often

Amazon just hiked prices on Kindles, Echo speakers, Eero routers, and Fire TV devices ahead of the holiday shopping season.

Broadcom gave a disappointing revenue forecast for the current quarter but provided robust earnings guidance for fiscal 2028.

1Password is facing customer and internal employee backlash after pledging $300,000 to support a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. "The popular password manager is now a 'distinguished corporate patron' of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy," reports The Verge. From the report: One viral blog post declared that 1Password "Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of ..

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Found the time to focus and corrected incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds

If you're developing an LLM in the United States and need loads of data, the government has made a legal filing that claims copyright violations by AI companies are fine, as long as it means moving faster than perceived adversaries. The US government has put its finger on the scales in deciding the results of the AI race I don't like to start my pieces off with a quote, but I feel like this colors everything: "Rules of law that make it significantly more difficult to develop a robust AI ..

Kicking off September with a more capable Gemini.

Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'

Longtime Slashdot reader Microsplat: CERN plans to have all 2,200+ industrial computers and embedded systems in its accelerator-control infrastructure running Debian 13 by the end of 2026. These are systems used for accelerator control, laboratory equipment and other operational functions ... They also generate and interact with a hefty amount of data, although this Linux.com article refers more broadly to CERN's computing infrastructure. It's unclear whether the Debian migration covers all ..

Donald Trumps West Wing renovations and DC arch could be on the chopping block, should Democrats win the midtermsthey could also be leverage.

After years of avoiding it, Hobby Lobby has begun rolling out Apple Pay at its checkouts, much to the delight of its increasingly frustrated customers, though it isn't available everywhere just yet. Hobby Lobby now accepts Apple Pay at checkout Image credit: Hobby Lobby You may be able to pick up your assorted crafting bits and bobs at Hobby Lobby sans wallet if you so choose. Customers have discovered that, at least at certain locations, the retail arts and crafts giant has added support for ..

Some phone case makers have already posted iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and Ultra cases ahead of Apple's official event next week,

The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data

Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend

Snowflake business is growing quickly, in part thanks to adoption of an artificial intelligence agent for writing code.

Climate scientists now aim to minimize time spent above the limit from the Paris Agreement.

Apple's new smart home display, designed to power Apple Home , could be launching soon. Here's what the rumors say will be coming, and when. An expertly made mockup of Apple's smart home display, taping an iPad mini to a HomePod A lot of what we've been hearing about this new home hub isn't exactly new. Rumors say that this device was expected to launch in the spring of 2025, before the state of Apple Intelligence forced Apple to delay it . But that was all in 2025, and 2026 is poised to be ..

The situation is not disastrous just yet, but it's definitely time to start paying attention, Forescout hints.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI adoption is "non-negotiable" for countries, comparing rejecting it to refusing electricity a century ago and predicting it will unleash an unprecedented boom in entrepreneurship. "The economic growth and benefit to people that can come from this, the value to a country, is too high to ignore," he said. His comments were made during a fireside chat with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. CNBC ..

Uber is cutting small teams by nearly half and allowing about 1% of its workforce to continue working remotely.

AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)

Gemini 3.8 Flash arrives just three weeks after its predecessor.

A crewless sailboat fired two live missiles at RIMPAC, six months after Lockheed and Saildrone started work. The boat sails itself, but a Navy- operated fire control system still makes weapon-deployment decisions.

New York City Public Schools is banning generative AI for students from pre-K through eighth grade for the 2026-27 school year, affecting more than half a million students in the nation's largest school district. ABC News reports: In a statement to ABC News, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that the city is implementing a moratorium on generative AI for students in pre-school or 2-K through eighth grade and will spend the next year "studying the impacts of this technology." Mamdani wrote ..

A whistleblower alleges USPS built an untested ballot-screening system with zero tolerance for errors before the midterms.

NYC public schools are taking a year without generative AI tools.

The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAIs argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.

As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.