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Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah Baldeo created a personalized AI chatbot trained on her texts, values and family rules so her 15-year-old son could seek her guidance while she traveled for work. Her son used the bot as intended for advice, but also tried to leverage it to convince the real Baldeo to let him hang out at a coffee shop in Chicago, generating arguments she hadn't anticipated.
An MIT student reportedly worked with dimethyl mercury despite the university's policy prohibiting its purchase or synthesis on campus. MIT confirmed the compound's use was unauthorized, though details on how the student obtained it and the extent of exposure remain unclear.
For over a decade, computer science was seen as the surest path to a lucrative tech job, fueling a nearly 500% surge in CS degrees since 2008. Now, as artificial intelligence automates many coding tasks and shrinks entry-level tech hiring, some observers argue that math degrees may offer better long-term career security than CS.
A report examines whether components and equipment sourced from Chinese manufacturers are quietly underpinning the rapid expansion of American data centers driving the AI buildout. The claim centers on supply chain dependencies that persist even as US-China tech tensions escalate publicly.
A worker identifying himself as a 'Legacy Media Completion Specialist' describes his job shredding and burning antique books after they've been sliced apart and scanned to train generative AI models. The satirical account follows revelations from a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, in which unsealed court documents showed the company used 'destructive scanning'—cutting spines off physical books to scan them faster, then discarding the remains—and allegedly tried to conceal the practice.
TurboKV is a newly released open-source embedded key-value database written in Rust, designed for asynchronous use with Tokio. It supports atomic write batches, ordered range and prefix scans, configurable durability levels, compression, and background compaction, and can be added to a project via Cargo.
The EU's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, which took initial effect August 12, replaces the 1994 Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive and now applies to any business shipping goods into the bloc's 27 member states. Independent tabletop RPG creators like Johan Nohr and Josh Fox say the rules, combined with Extended Producer Responsibility fees that differ by country and sometimes recur annually, are proving costly and confusing to navigate. Fox, of Black Armada, says the compliance burden may force his company to halt sales in the EU.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a Nevada case that betting on sporting outcomes does not qualify as a federally regulated 'swap' under the Commodity Exchange Act, rejecting the broad interpretation that prediction-market firm Kalshi has relied on to argue states can't block its sports contracts. The decision undermines the reasoning Arizona federal judge Michael Liburdi used earlier this year to block Arizona's attorney general from prosecuting Kalshi under state gambling laws.
A security researcher describes building a new memory architecture for LLM agents used in vulnerability research, after noticing that standard retrieval-based memory let models keep reasoning from facts that had since been disproven. Instead of just storing and retrieving past observations, the system tracks logical dependencies between facts, so that when one assumption is invalidated, everything derived from it can be automatically flagged or revised. The approach effectively borrows ideas from program analysis, treating an investigation's knowledge state like a dependency graph rather than a flat log of conversation history.
President Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's cellphone in the middle of a company-wide staff meeting on Thursday, with Trump's voice audible through Huang's onstage microphone before Huang briefly stepped away and returned within a minute. The call came the same day Nvidia launched an employee-funded political action committee and a day after the company posted quarterly revenue of $96 billion, up 106 percent year over year.
AT&T filed a lawsuit against Charter on Friday, claiming Spectrum's marketing of its internet as 'fiber-powered' misleads customers who aren't actually getting a full fiber connection. Spectrum's network relies on fiber-optic lines for most of its infrastructure but typically switches to copper coaxial cable for the final stretch into homes, unlike true fiber providers that run fiber directly to the wall jack. The suit was filed in Dallas, a market where both companies compete heavily for broadband customers.
Rockstar's extended GTA 6 preview shows a returning six-star Wanted level, higher than GTA V's five-star cap, appearing briefly during a police chase scene. The footage also introduces a Criminal Profile system, similar in spirit to Red Dead Redemption 2's Honor mechanic, which reportedly weighs the context of a player's crimes rather than treating all violence equally. Rockstar North's Rob Nelson confirmed to IGN that repeated player behavior can influence how NPCs and the story respond over time.