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China's inaugural 'Robot Olmypics' delivers impressive feats and disastrous falls

The first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games have come to a close with some new world records, but don't expect them to beat humans in a 100-meter dash any time soon. The three-day robotics event in Beijing, China that saw humanoid robots compete in everything from boxing to cleaning concluded this weekend. According to the World Humanoid Robot Games, more than 280 teams from 16 countries, including the US, Germany, Brazil and the host country, entered their robots into the event. A majority of th

Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software

Rust turns 10 this year. It’s a good time to take a look at where we are and where I think we need to be going. This post is the first in a series I’m calling “Rust in 2025”. This first post describes my general vision for how Rust fits into the computing landscape. The remaining posts will outline major focus areas that I think are needed to make this vision come to pass. Oh, and fair warning, I’m expecting some controversy along the way—at least I hope so, since otherwise I’m just repeating th

Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible

Apple’s latest addition to Xcode, the Processor Trace instrument, is one of those features that sounds pretty mundane until you actually try it. Then you realize it’s exactly what you’ve been needing for the performance mysteries that eat up hours upon hours of your development time. If you’ve been developing apps for a while, this story will sound very familiar. Your app runs fine in testing, but then users complain about performance issues or excessive battery drain. You fire up Instruments,

Next week’s Google event is sounding more like a late-night talk show lineup

TL;DR The Made by Google event next week will feature celebrity guests alongside product reveals. Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Curry, Lando Norris, and the Jonas Brothers are among the teased guests. The event celebrates 10 generations of Pixel and ends with the tagline “Get outside your comfort phone.” It looks like Google’s big Pixel launch next week won’t just be about the hardware. In what appears to be a bid to draw a wider audience than tech nerds like us, Google is rolling out the red carpet

Appfigures: ChatGPT app sees a 673% increase in global revenue in 2025

A new report from Appfigures shows ChatGPT firmly leading the pack in revenue per download among the top AI assistant apps. Here’s the breakdown. According to the report (via TechCrunch), since launching in May 2023, the ChatGPT app has generated $2 billion in global consumer spending across iOS and Android, with a 673% year-over-year surge in 2025 alone. Appfigures also says the app has been downloaded 318 million times so far this year, 2.8 times more than in the same period last year. Indi

The Folk Economics of Housing

Abstract Why is housing supply so severely restricted in US cities and suburbs? Urban economists offer two primary hypotheses: homeowner self-interest and political fragmentation. Homeowners, who outnumber and have organizational advantages over renters, are said to lobby against development to protect their property values. The fragmentation hypothesis emphasizes that development's negative externalities are borne locally while most of the benefits accrue regionally or nationally, leading local

The 13 Foods That Could Save Your Kidneys and Your Wallet

Your kidneys work quietly in the background every day, doing far more than most people realize. They filter waste from your blood, keep fluid levels balanced, help regulate hormones and play a role in everything from managing blood pressure to supporting healthy energy levels. Despite being so important, kidney health often does not get the attention it deserves. According to the CDC, more than 1 in 7 adults in the US are living with chronic kidney disease, and many are unaware they have it. Th

Inside the Biden Administration's Gamble to Freeze China’s AI Future

Alan Estevez was sitting at his dining room table wearing a t-shirt when Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo called on Zoom to ask if he wanted to be the Biden administration’s top export control official. “You’re going to have to sell me on this,” Estevez recalls telling her. It was 2021, and the outspoken New Jersey native thought he had finally left public service behind. After more than three decades at the Pentagon, he had left and taken a job in consulting. He wasn’t sure if he was ready

iPhone 17 event news is coming but beware of fake invites

The most likely iPhone 17 event date is now the rumored iPhone 17 event date. No surprises there. But when should we expect Apple to actually confirm the date of its next big product reveal, and what should you make of that event invite leak on social media? iPhone 17 event right on schedule Save for a few exceptions, Apple typically announces new flagship iPhone models in the second week of September each year. This year appears to be following the pattern with an event rumored for Tuesday, S

Ratatan, a spiritual successor to Patapon, hits early access on September 19

We have some great news for fans of rhythm games. Ratatan hits Steam early access on September 19 . This is a spiritual successor to one of the most renowned rhythm games of all time, Patapon. The designer behind the original game, Hiroyuki Kotani, is involved. The mechanics here are similar to Patapon and its sequels, but look to be more elaborate . The game tasks players with rhythmically controlling cute little soldiers called Cobuns, but directing these warriors while avoiding damage is eas

Apple shares video of epic Severance mural in LA

LA is populated with marketing materials for all sorts of entertainment, but this giant painted Severance mural is one-of-a-kind. Apple shared photos of “The Exalted Victory of Cold Harbor” mural on display near an Apple TV+ billboard on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles this week. The finishing touches were put on the mural at the end of July, according to passersby on social media. These are the shots shared by Apple, including a selfie by Severance lead actor Adam Scott: Meanwhile, a Facebook

AWS launches AI agent marketplace with a hackathon and $100k in prizes for developers

Kmatta ZDNET's key takeaways The new agents marketplace will launch in beta next month. The companies will also launch an educational hub for IT clients. Developers could win a chunk of $100,000 for building agents. As is often the case with hyped-up new technologies, interest in AI agents among business leaders is soaring -- some CFOs report committing 25% of their AI budgets to them. However, practical understanding of how to implement and use them effectively remains somewhat fuzzy. A ne

How AI startups are scaling revenue 'faster than any other companies in cloud history' - and what's next

Bessemer Venture Partners ZDNET's key takeaways AI startups are reaching revenue milestones faster than ever. A new, AI-native social media giant could emerge. Startups must be ready for lots of acquisition interest In its annual overview of artificial intelligence (AI), venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners on Wednesday said that startups it funds -- such as Anthropic, Perplexity, and Canva -- are reaching meaningful turning points in their revenue faster than at any other time in

‘Friday the 13th’ Short ‘Sweet Revenge’ Is a Gruesomely Fun Jason Voorhees Return

Last May, a new company called Horror Inc. announced the launch of the “Jason Universe,” an initiative aimed at injecting fresh life into the Friday the 13th franchise. Though the company has a hand in Crystal Lake, the upcoming Peacock prequel series, its first big launch is Sweet Revenge, a short film bringing everyone’s favorite hockey-masked maniac back to slay. After teasing the short at San Diego Comic-Con (and reassuring fans a feature film is most definitely on the “to-do” list), Horror

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Scientists Are Getting Seriously Worried That We've Already Hit Peak AI

The long-awaited release of OpenAI's GPT-5 has gone over with a wet thud. Though the private sector continues to dump billions into artificial intelligence development, hoping for exponential gains, the research community isn't convinced. Speaking to The New Yorker, Gary Marcus, a neural scientist and longtime critic of OpenAI, said what many have been coming to suspect: despite years of development at a staggering cost, AI doesn't seem to be getting much better. Though GPT-5 technically perf

Kodak says it’ll figure things out and won’t shut down

“Kodak is confident it will be able to pay off a significant portion of its term loan well before it becomes due, and amend, extend or refinance our remaining debt and/or preferred stock obligations. To fund the repayment, we plan to draw on the approximately $300 million in cash we expect to receive from the reversion and settlement of our U.S. pension fund (the Kodak Retirement Income Plan, or “KRIP”) in December. However, the KRIP reversion is not solely within Kodak’s control and therefore i

Microsoft asks users to ignore certificate enrollment errors

Microsoft has asked customers this week to disregard incorrect CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) errors that appear after installing the July 2025 preview update and subsequent Windows 11 24H2 updates. In recent months, Microsoft has addressed multiple similar issues affecting various Windows features that triggered erroneous warnings with no actual impact. For instance, last month, Redmond advised users to turn a blind eye to Windows Firewall configuration errors that occurred after rebo

Chinese tech giant Tencent's quarterly revenue jumps 15% on AI investments, gaming unit boost

The Tencent logo is displayed on the exterior of a building at the company’s headquarters, with a surveillance camera visible in the foreground, on November 30, 2024, in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. Tencent on Wednesday reported a 15% jump in second-quarter revenue as a strong performance in its gaming unit and AI investments boosted growth. Here's how Tencent did in the first quarter of 2025: Revenue: 184.504 billion Chinese yuan ($25.7 billion), compared to 161.117 billion Chinese y

Evaluating LLMs playing text adventures

What we’ll do is set a low-ish turn limit and see how much they manage to accomplish in that time.1 Another alternative for more linear games is running them multiple times with a turn limit and seeing how often they get past a particular point within that turn limit. Given how much freedom is offered to players of text adventures, this is a difficult test. It’s normal even for a skilled human player to immerse themselves in their surrounding rather than make constant progress. I wouldn’t be su

The 20 Best PS4 Games

It has been more than a decade since Sony released the PlayStation 4, but the console is just as important as ever. Despite being released in November 2013, the PS4 is still in production today, with well over 100 million units being sold over its lifetime and some new games still arriving on it, including Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii. When it launched in 2013, Sony's eighth-gen console arrived with tech upgrades that seem du jour now, but were exciting over a decade ago. For instance

CoreWeave shares drop even as revenue and guidance top estimates

Mike Intrator, co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave, speaks at the Nasdaq headquarters in New York on March 28, 2025. CoreWeave shares slid 11% in extended trading on Tuesday even as the provider of artificial intelligence infrastructure issued results and guidance that beat expectations. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: Loss of 21 cents Loss of 21 cents Revenue: $1.21 billion vs. $1.08 billion expected Revenue more than tripled from $395.4 millio

The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know

The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know I want a new protocol, tentatively called “Let Me Know” (LMK). The purpose is to provide someone an anonymous way to get notified when a singular, specific event occurs. Here’s a basic use case: Some random blog author has published Parts 1 and 2 of a series. You enjoyed it, and you want to know when Part 3 is published. You don’t want to give away any personal information, you don’t want to subscribe to an RSS feed of other content, you don’t want to follow

The "high-level CPU" challenge (2008)

Do you love ("very") high-level languages? Like Lisp, Smalltalk, Python, Ruby? Or maybe Haskell, ML? I love high-level languages. Do you think high-level languages would run fast if the stock hardware weren't "brain-damaged"/"built to run C"/"a von Neumann machine (instead of some other wonderful thing)"? You do think so? I have a challenge for you. I bet you'll be interested. Background: I work on the definition of custom instruction set processors (just finished one). It's fairly high-end

Krafton claims former Subnautica 2 devs ‘lost interest’ in developing game

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Krafton has fired another shot in its legal battle with former executives of Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds, who filed a lawsuit last month, claiming the South Korean publisher undermined the game’s release to avoid paying them a bon

Let's get real about the one-person billion dollar company

If you like this post, follow my journey on Twitter: https://x.com/random The biggest hurdle to the one-person billion dollar company is not AI capability, but founder pain tolerance. Sam Altman is betting on it in his private group chats. Dario Amodei predicted it'll happen in 2026. These geniuses think the one-person billion dollar company is inevitable, and unicorn teams are getting smaller, but a one person? That’s not going to just happen. One person is an intentional choice by an i

The "high-level CPU" challenge

Do you love ("very") high-level languages? Like Lisp, Smalltalk, Python, Ruby? Or maybe Haskell, ML? I love high-level languages. Do you think high-level languages would run fast if the stock hardware weren't "brain-damaged"/"built to run C"/"a von Neumann machine (instead of some other wonderful thing)"? You do think so? I have a challenge for you. I bet you'll be interested. Background: I work on the definition of custom instruction set processors (just finished one). It's fairly high-end

Android's pKVM hypervisor earns SESIP Level 5 security certification

Google announced that its protected Kernel-based Virtual Machine (pKVM) for Android has achieved SESIP Level 5 certification, the highest security assurance level for IoT and mobile platforms. The pKVM is the hypervisor underpinning the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF), providing an isolated, high-assurance environment for executing critical workloads. These include Google's AI models like Gemini Nano for local personal data processing, biometric authentication (face, fingerprint), DRM co

Evaluating LLMs Playing Text Adventures

What we’ll do is set a low-ish turn limit and see how much they manage to accomplish in that time.1 Another alternative for more linear games is running them multiple times with a turn limit and seeing how often they get past a particular point within that turn limit. Given how much freedom is offered to players of text adventures, this is a difficult test. It’s normal even for a skilled human player to immerse themselves in their surrounding rather than make constant progress. I wouldn’t be su

Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Community and Events Manager (Remote)

Depot is growing rapidly and reinventing the software build space. We’re looking for a Community & Events Manager to own our real-world developer presence from small scrappy meetups to major trade shows. This isn’t a polished field marketing role. You’re not coordinating keynote stages or passing off ideas to an agency. You’re the one planning developer happy hours, running trade show booths end-to-end, and figuring out how to create moments that developers actually care about. You’ll own our

Artificial biosensor can better measure the body's main stress hormone

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Graphical abstract. Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c05004 Cortisol is a crucial hormone that regulates many important bodily functions like blood pressure and metabolism, and imbalances of this stress hormone can lead to health problems. Traditionally, cortisol levels mu