“Early Sunday morning, a car stopped and appears to have fired a gun at the Russian Hill home of OpenAI’s CEO,” reportsThe San Francisco Standard, citing reports from the local police department: The San Francisco Police Department announced the arrest of two suspects, Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, who were booked for negligent discharge… [The person in the passenger seat] put...

“Robotic bird decoys are being deployed at Grand Teton National Park,” reports Interesting Engineering, “to influence the behavior of real sage grouse and help restore a declining population.”. Robotics mentor Gary Duquette describes the machines as “kind of a Frankenbird.” (SFGate shows one of the robot birds charging up with a solar panel… “Recorded breeding calls are played at the scene,...

A verified account with the @elonmusk handle also recently showed up on Instagram, as the billionaire prepares to take his rocket company SpaceX public.

“Rust’s rise shows signs of slowing,” argues the CEO of TIOBE. Back in 2020 Rust first entered the top 20 of his “TIOBE Index,” which ranks programming language popularity using search engine results. Rust “was widely expected to break into the top 10,” he remembers today. But it never happened, and “That was nearly six years ago….”Since then, Rust has steadily improved its ranking, even...

A new powerful chipset has arrived to take on x86 CPUs and Apple’s M5, writes Wccftech. The blog Windows Central writes that “Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 processors are here” — and they run Windows:Microsoft has done a massive amount of work to improve compatibility and has also convinced developers to embrace Windows 11 on Arm. Users of Windows 11 on Arm PCs spend 90% of their time on Arm-based...

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie “is officially the year’s highest-grossing film to date with $629 million at the global box office,” reports Variety — and it will likely earn over $1 billion. Project Hail Mary now becomes the year’s second highest-grossing movie, with four-week ticket sales over $510, notes The Hollywood Reporter: The two films have helped propel year-to-date revenue to $2.113...

“RGB LED TVs have been the talk of the TV world this year,” argues The Verge, with models coming from all the manufacturers.”And the first one of 2026 is here — the UR9 from China’s Hisense — “the first look at the viability of the new backlight technology outside of demo rooms.” They call it “a step above the traditional mini-LED TVs of years past.” and “a great first shot against OLED’s...

Mississippi has one warehouse — run by a contractor — that sells all the liquor for the entire state of 2.9 million people. “If a restaurant or store anywhere in Mississippi wanted a bottle of Jim Beam, they had to order it from the wholesale warehouse,” reports the Washington Post. But then Mississippi’s warehouse-managing contractor implemented a new computer system that wasn’t compatible...

Bloomberg describes him as a “former Harvard Medical School professor whose research has focused on the intersection of AI and neuroscience.” “For the past 20 years, I studied how the human brain stores and retrieves memories,” Kreiman writes on LinkedIn. And now “My co-founder Spandan Madan and I built a new algorithm to endow humans with perfect and infinite memory.” Engramme connects to your...

Bloomberg describes him as a “former Harvard Medical School professor whose research has focused on the intersection of AI and neuroscience.” “For the past 20 years, I studied how the human brain stores and retrieves memories,” Kreiman writes on LinkedIn. And now “My co-founder Spandan Madan and I built a new algorithm to endow humans with perfect and infinite memory.” Engramme connects to your...

The biotech industry’s engineered cells could become an $8 trillion market by 2035, notes Phys.org. But how do you keep them from being stolen? Their article notes “an uptick in the theft and smuggling of high-value biological materials, including specially engineered cells.”In Science Advances, a team of U.S. researchers present a new approach to genetically securing precious biological...

The word clanker — a disparaging term for AI and robots — “has made its way into the Linux kernel,” reports the blog It’s FOSS “thanks to Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux stable kernel maintainer and the closest thing the project has to a second-in-command.”He’s been quietly running what looks like an AI-assisted fuzzing tool on the kernel that lives in a branch called “clanker” on his working...

Forbes estimates he’s worth roughly $110 billion, “placing him ahead of Bill Gates.” And now Changpeng Zhao, the 49-year-old billionaire founder of Binance, “has written a memoir…”It arrives with the unmistakable timing of a man determined to tell the world his version of his meteoric crypto rise and fall, and foreshadow his comeback. The book, Freedom of Money: A Memoir of Protecting Users,...

China, the U.S., Russia and others have ramped up their contest over artificial-intelligence-backed weapons and military systems. The buildup has been compared to the dawn of the nuclear weapons age.

Remember that AI-powered vending machine that went bankrupt after Wall Street Journal reporters “systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free”? It was Anthropic’s experiment, with setup handled by a startup named Andon Labs (which also built the hardware and software integration). But for their latest experiment, Andon Labs co-founders Lukas Petersson and...