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Russia’s Space Chief Touts ‘Rapid’ Development of Starlink Rival

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-21 23:00:47

With more than 6 million active users, SpaceX’s Starlink has become the world’s leading provider of high-speed satellite internet. That prominence has sparked some rivalry, and not least with other world powers—including Russia. In a televised interview on Wednesday, the head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said it is pushing full steam ahead on an alternative to Starlink, Reuters reported. Dmitry Bakanov said that Roscosmos has partnered with Bureau 1440, a Russian aerospace company, to dev

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Tesla probed for potentially faulty door handles

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-09-27 15:48:43

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into claims that Tesla’s door handles become inoperable in certain situations on Model Y SUVs. The safety agency’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) revealed the probe on Tuesday, after having received nine reports from owners who were unable to get into their cars. ODI writes that the most common scenario involves parents who exit their car and cannot open the rear doors to remove their children. In four of tho

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Roblox hit with wrongful death lawsuit following a teen player's suicide

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-29 21:15:01

Following her son's suicide, Becca Dallas filed a potentially groundbreaking lawsuit against Roblox and Discord, accusing the platforms of wrongful death. As first reported by The New York Times, the lawsuit recounts the events leading up to Ethan Dallas' death, detailing his interactions with a player named Nate. According to the report, Nate was likely a 37-year-old man named Timothy O'Connor, who was previously arrested on charges of "possessing child pornography and transmitting harmful mate

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Rocket Report: Russia’s rocket engine predicament; 300th launch to the ISS

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-02 07:29:03

Welcome to Edition 8.10 of the Rocket Report! Dear readers, if everything goes according to plan, four astronauts are less than six months away from traveling around the far side of the Moon and breaking free of low-Earth orbit for the first time in more than 53 years. Yes, there are good reasons to question NASA's long-term plans for the Artemis lunar program—the woeful cost of the Space Launch System rocket, the complexity of new commercial landers, and a bleak budget outlook. But many of us w

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The Boring Company Reportedly Halts Tunneling in Las Vegas After ‘Crushing Injury’

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-03 03:30:54

Elon Musk’s tunneling firm, The Boring Company, has temporarily halted work at one of the company’s sites in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to a new report from Fortune. The disruption is related to a “crushing injury” sustained by one of the workers at the site, according to the magazine, which spoke to local firefighters. Emergency responders received a call around 10:12 p.m. local time on Wednesday night about an “industrial/machinery incident,” according to Fortune. Employees at the worksite

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Jesse Eisenberg Hints at Magical Fun Coming in ‘Now You See Me 3’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-06 15:10:13

It’s been almost a decade since the last Now You See Me movie, but the franchise is coming back with a third installment that sees old and new magicians team up for a series of heists. The best part of these movies has always been watching the Horsemen and their friends pull off their seemingly impossible schemes, and according to Jesse Eisenberg, the upcoming movie has some even more fun in store. Eisenberg cryptically told Entertainment Weekly that a “genuinely brilliant, incredibly effectiv

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I Hate My AI Friend

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-10-11 23:30:00

Schiffmann seems to be doing well, compared to the last times either of us spoke to him. When he first announced the Friend, he talked about how he had come up with the idea for an AI buddy while traveling alone and yearning for companionship. Schiffmann posits himself as older now, wiser, more experienced than he was when he first debuted the Friend necklace. (He is 22.) He has grown out his hair and cultivated a beard, and he seems to have more real-life personal connections than when he first

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The Ivalice Chronicles team had to remake the original Final Fantasy Tactics' source code from scratch

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-11 14:02:53

The Square Enix team behind Final Fantasy Tactics — The Ivalice Chronicles didn't just remaster the iconic strategy RPG, they had to go through the trouble of remaking the source code from scratch, according to Bloomberg. In an interview with Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, the game's director Kazutoyo Maehiro explained the arduous process of designing The Ivalice Chronicles, which is set to release at the end of the month. When getting to work on the remake, Maehiro and his team discovered they ha

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OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 06:30:46

OpenAI is set to produce its own artificial intelligence chip for the first time next year, as the ChatGPT maker attempts to address insatiable demand for computing power and reduce its reliance on chip giant Nvidia. The chip, co-designed with US semiconductor giant Broadcom, would ship next year, according to multiple people familiar with the partnership. Broadcom’s chief executive Hock Tan on Thursday referred to a mystery new customer committing to $10 billion in orders. OpenAI’s move foll

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Cloud provider Lambda may be gearing up for an IPO

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-15 11:43:06

In Brief Cloud provider Lambda might be following rival CoreWeave to the public markets. Lambda, an AI infrastructure company offering on-demand GPUs, has hired bankers for an upcoming IPO, according to reporting from The Information. Lambda has reportedly hired Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Citi for a public listing that could happen as early as the first half of 2026. Lambda did not respond to a request for comment. The company has raised more than $1.7 billion in funding, according to

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Apple Planning AI-Powered Web Search for Siri Next Year: Report

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-16 15:25:11

Apple is planning to launch a new AI-powered web search tool for Siri next year, according to a new report from Bloomberg, as it seeks to compete with competitors who’ve invested heavily in AI. Details are still scarce and could change before launch, but it sounds like the whole thing could be powered by a custom version of Google’s Gemini. The new system is being called World Knowledge Answers internally, according to Bloomberg, and may even be added to Safari and Spotlight. An AI-powered vers

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Switzerland releases its own AI model trained on public data

theverge.com Elissa Welle 2025-10-16 23:32:37

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Switzerland launched an open-source model called Apertus on Monday as an alternative to proprietary models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, reports SWI as spotted by Engadget. The model’s source code, training data, model weights, and detailed developmen

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The largest illegal sports streaming service has been shut down after sting operation

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-17 11:35:37

The sports broadcasting piracy network Streameast has been shut down after it was investigated for a year by a US-based anti-piracy group. Streameast is the largest illegal sports streaming platform in the world, and while active it offered its users free access to 80 unauthorised domains. This allowed people to pirate live soccer matches from the Premier League and Champions League, as well as NFL, NBA and MLB games. According to ACE, annual traffic to the site topped 1.6 billion visits. The A

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Police Desperately Seek Info on Burning Man Homicide Suspect

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-19 19:45:23

Nothing puts your problems into perspective like death. Sure, the orgy dome being rendered unusable by wind was a bummer, but it doesn’t compare to the unsolved homicide that appears to have happened on the grounds of Burning Man over the weekend. Making matters worse, the situation remains unsolved, and police are struggling to connect with potential witnesses as they head back home from the desert getaway. Thus far, the details about the situation are pretty sparse. According to USA Today, th

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Meta is reportedly looking at using competing AI models to improve its apps

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-22 21:22:09

Meta may be interested in more than Google and OpenAI's employees when it comes to artificial intelligence. According to The Information, Meta is considering using its competitors' models to improve its own apps' AI features. The report said that leaders at the Meta Superintelligence Lab have looked at integrating Google Gemini into its Meta AI chatbot to help it provide a conversational, text-based solution to its users' search questions. Not only with Google Gemini, Meta has also had discussi

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No Amount of Money Can Make People Want to Work for Zuck

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-22 19:30:33

How much would you have to get paid to spend any amount of time with Mark Zuckerberg? For some of the folks who have joined Meta’s AI team, millions of dollars simply is not enough. According to a new report from the Financial Times, the Meta AI lab is such a mess (and presumably, Zuck is such a bad hang) that recent hires have threatened to quit within days of joining, and promotions have been handed out just to keep people from leaving. FT points to Shengjia Zhao, Meta’s “chief AI scientist,”

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Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-23 23:48:51

At the beginning of the month, Tesla was found partly liable in a wrongful death lawsuit involving the death of a pedestrian in Florida in 2019. The automaker—which could have settled the case for far less—claimed that it did not have the fatal crash's data. That's until a hacker was able to recover it from the crashed car, according to a report in The Washington Post. In the past, Tesla has been famously quick to offer up customer data stored on its servers to rebut claims made against the com

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Connecticut Man’s Case Believed to Be First Murder-Suicide Associated With AI Psychosis

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-24 07:35:48

A case of murder-suicide in Connecticut earlier this month is being identified as potentially the first homicide fueled by a mentally disturbed person’s use of generative artificial intelligence, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. Police in Greenwich, Connecticut, found Stein-Erik Soelberg, a 56-year-old tech industry veteran, and his 83-year-old mother, both dead in the home where they lived together on Aug. 5, according to the Greenwich Police Department. Soelberg killed

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CDC Director Denies Report She’s Been Fired by Trump Regime (HHS Says She’s Out)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-27 05:00:09

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Susan Monarez, was reportedly fired on Wednesday after she resisted changes to covid-19 vaccine policies, according to the Washington Post. But her lawyer says she hasn’t been officially notified of the termination, throwing a curveball into an already chaotic news cycle at the CDC. “When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protectin

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Looks like nuclear fusion is picking up steam

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-10-30 10:22:24

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nuclear fusion is on the upswing, as more companies pile into the space to achieve what’s often described as the Holy Grail of clean energy, according to an updated map from the Clean Air

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Ether slides to start the week after hitting a fresh record near $5,000

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-01 18:09:16

Ether tumbled to start the week, erasing gains from its Jackson Hole rally after hitting a fresh record over the weekend. On Monday, the price of the second largest cryptocurrency fell 8% to $4,431.60, according to Coin Metrics. On Sunday, it rose to an all-time high of $4,954.81, after hitting an earlier record Friday for the first time since 2021. Meanwhile, bitcoin fell 2% to $110,531.00, its lowest level since July. The flagship cryptocurrency hit its most recent record of $124,496 on Aug.

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Ether pulls back to start the week after hitting a fresh record near $5,000

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-02 16:32:44

Ether is pulling back to start the week, after hitting a fresh record over the weekend. On Monday, the price of the second largest cryptocurrency fell 4% to $4,631.61, according to Coin Metrics, trading off its lows of the day. On Sunday, it rose to a fresh record of $4,954.81, after hitting an earlier all-time high Friday for the first time since 2021. Meanwhile, bitcoin was little changed at $112,488.80. Over the weekend, it dropped to $110,779.01, its lowest level since July 10. The flagshi

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Ether erases gains from Jackson Hole rally after hitting a fresh record over the weekend

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-03 17:33:29

Ether is pulling back to start the week, after hitting a fresh record over the weekend. The price of the second largest cryptocurrency fell 6% to $4,548.32 on Monday, according to Coin Metrics. On Sunday, it rose to a fresh record of $4,954.81, after hitting an earlier all-time high Friday for the first time since 2021. Meanwhile, bitcoin was last lower by more than 1% at $111,501.74. Over the weekend, it dropped to $110,779.01, its lowest level since July 10. The flagship cryptocurrency hit i

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TikTok puts hundreds of UK content moderator jobs at risk

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-02 04:32:06

TikTok puts hundreds of UK content moderator jobs at risk 22 hours ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images TikTok is putting hundreds of jobs in the UK which moderate content that appears on the social media platform at risk. According to TikTok, the plan would see work moved to its other offices in Europe as it invests in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to scale up its moderation. "We are continuing a reorganisation that we started last year to strengthe

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TikTok to lay off hundreds of UK content moderators

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-05 16:32:06

TikTok to lay off hundreds of UK content moderators 30 minutes ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images TikTok is planning to lay off hundreds of staff in the UK which moderate the content that appears on the social media platform. According to TikTok, the plan would see work moved to its other offices in Europe as it invests in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to scale up its moderation. "We are continuing a reorganisation that we started last year to stre

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Tesla Takes So Long to Report Crash Data, Even Trump’s Regulators Are Taking Notice

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-06 21:45:50

It turns out it’s actually possible for a corporation to drag its feet for so long that even the Trump administration takes issue with it. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that it will investigate Tesla’s habit of taking months to submit accident reports that involve the company’s driver-assistance technology, according to a report from Reuters. Just how late is Tesla getting its crash report information to the NHTSA? The agency asks that companies submit reports wit

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Tesla faces U.S. auto safety probe over faulty crash reporting

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-11-07 02:22:17

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, attends the Viva Technology conference at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2023. Elon Musk's Tesla is facing a federal probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration after the U.S. auto safety agency found that the company was not reporting crashes as required. According to documents posted to NHTSA's website on Thursday, the agency's Office of Defects Investigation had "identified numerous incident reports" from Te

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Plague Case Confirmed Near Lake Tahoe After Likely Flea Bite

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-11-09 21:55:17

A California resident has tested positive for the plague after camping near Lake Tahoe, local health officials confirmed. It’s the latest in a string of positive cases in the western U.S. this year. The infected person was likely bitten by a plague-infected flea in the South Lake Tahoe area, according to local health officials. This is the first local case in the area since 2020. The person is currently recovering and is undergoing medical treatment at home. “Plague is naturally present in man

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Former Hospital Worker Allegedly Stole Skin Grafts in California

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-20 14:50:51

A man in Southern California has been arrested for allegedly stealing from three area hospitals. But the things he stole weren’t your run-of-the-mill items. The man made off with about $300,000 in surgical equipment and skin grafts, according to the Mercury News. Jason Brauner, a 47-year-old man from San Jacinto, California, allegedly posed as a hospital employee to pilfer the highly unusual property. The Riverside County Sheriff said in a press release that Brauner was arrested on Aug. 6 and c

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iPhone 17 Pro Will Reportedly Get Higher Price Tag, But Also More Storage

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-23 18:59:42

The price of an iPhone Pro has been $999 since 2019, but a new leak appears to corroborate what has been rumored before -- that the price is going up. The iPhone 17 Pro, set to launch in September, reportedly will be priced $50 more at $1,050 in the US before taxes, according to Chinese leaker Instant Digital. The model will also reportedly get a storage boost from the Pro's usual 128GB to 256GB. For context, if you were to bump up to 256GB on the iPhone 16 Pro, that would cost you $100 and bri

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Ether slides to start the week after hitting a fresh record near $5,000

Ether pulls back to start the week after hitting a fresh record near $5,000

Ether erases gains from Jackson Hole rally after hitting a fresh record over the weekend

TikTok puts hundreds of UK content moderator jobs at risk

TikTok to lay off hundreds of UK content moderators

Tesla Takes So Long to Report Crash Data, Even Trump’s Regulators Are Taking Notice

Tesla faces U.S. auto safety probe over faulty crash reporting

Plague Case Confirmed Near Lake Tahoe After Likely Flea Bite

Former Hospital Worker Allegedly Stole Skin Grafts in California

iPhone 17 Pro Will Reportedly Get Higher Price Tag, But Also More Storage

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