State Attorneys General Are Investigating OpenAI
OpenAI said that a coalition of states had opened an investigation over a wide range of its practices, including its handing of user data, safety of minors and advertising activities.
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OpenAI said that a coalition of states had opened an investigation over a wide range of its practices, including its handing of user data, safety of minors and advertising activities.
The Wall Street Journal reports:The Trump administration’s decision to halt all foreign use of Anthropic’s most capable AI models was prompted by conversations between Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy and U.S. officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, people familiar with the matter said. Researchers at Amazon had used a series of prompts to get Anthropic’s Fable 5 model to provide...
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes:Shutterstock has unveiled what it calls a “human-led, AI-powered” creative platform that combines its massive library of [human] contributor-created content with AI image and video generation, AI editing, conversational search, prompt enhancement, and automated model selection tools. The company says the goal is to help creators move from idea to finished...
“Battery breakthroughs will lessen AI’s demand on the electricity grid,” argues The Washington Post’s editoral board, arguing that GM’s latest moves “offer a fresh reminder that resource constraints can be solved by innovation.” Or As Fortune put it, “America’s electric grid is buckling under extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and an AI build-out that is quietly rewriting U.S. power demand...
This month saw the release of Vim Classic 8.3, the first stable version of a new long-term support fork of Vim maintained without generative AI tools. Linuxiac reports:The release is based on Vim 8.2.0148 and includes selected bug fixes and patches backported from later upstream Vim releases. Vim Classic was first announced by [SourceHut’s CEO/founder] Drew DeVault in March 2026 after he...
More than 1,500 user-contributed packages in the Arch Linux User Repository “AUR” were infected with malware, reports Phoronix:The last message in the thread over this security incident is noting that Arch Linux developers have deleted all the malicious commits they are aware of. Cited was this list that puts the number of malware-affected packages at 1,579… Even at 1,579 packages listed, that...
“A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI,” reports the Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the matter.”OpenAI was served Friday with a subpoena seeking documents related to a broad range of its activities and impact on users, including advertising, user engagement and retention, handling of consumer data and health data, activities related to...

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It’s the 10-year anniversary of Britain’s “Brexit” vote withdrawing from the European Union. But a new UK poll “shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain’s departure,” reports Bloomberg:Fifty-two percent of Britons think the UK should rejoin the EU, according to an Ipsos survey of 1,137 British adults conducted between May 14 and May 20. That’s the inverse of...

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It’s the U.S. law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets. And the U.S. Congress just let it lapse. Sort of. NPR reports:Each year, the provision is used by American intelligence agencies to collect the electronic communications of hundreds of thousands of foreigners located outside of the United States. The government says that more than 60% of the president’s...
The Trump administration released another large batch of government UAP records, including videos of glowing orb-like objects appearing to split and rejoin, witness accounts, illustrations, and decades-old investigative documents. Axios reports: The documents indicate that government agents have spent years monitoring, investigating and documenting suspected UAP incidents. At lease some of the...

The company’s response to the launchpad blast has become a key test for Artemis III
As Blue Origin tells it, the most spectacular launchpad explosion in recent memory, which destroyed its pioneering New Glenn space rocket last month and severely damaged almost everything around it, was merely a blip.
“We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter,” Dave Limp, the...

The rest of Dyson’s promised 2026 vacuum lineup is here, from the new Dyson V16 Piston Animal to an updated version of the favored Dyson V8 Cyclone.
The Helios Horizon has completed what its developers call the first crewed, fixed-wing flight powered by solid-state batteries. New Atlas reports: On June 5, test pilot Miguel Iturmendi lifted off from Zephyrhills Municipal Airport in Florida at the controls of the Helios Horizon — the first crewed, fixed-wing aircraft ever to fly on solid-state batteries. The flight was neither spectacular in...

As World Cup action kicks off, we look at the physics of the beautiful game.

Whether you want to buy cheaper electricity, store solar energy, or guard against outages, EcoFlow’s home battery might be just what you need.

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RJ Scaringe, the CEO of Rivian Automotive, joined us for a wide-ranging interview about how his company’s new electric SUV fits into the current EV industry, and what comes next.

Junk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. It has to be one of the worst things about life in Britain
I live in the Norfolk countryside, and what irritates me most about living here is the deluge of litter that gets thrown out of car windows in the lane outside my house. It is always from junk food outlets, so the question arises as to which way round things are: does junk food...

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.