Published on: 2025-04-20 07:55:35
The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth since 1998, housing groups of astronauts in the microgravity environment around 250 miles above the surface of the planet. All of that time in space has taken a toll on its aging hardware, and the space station is due to retire within the next few years. Until then, however, safety experts are warning of long-running issues that threaten the safety of the ISS, and the crew on board. During a meeting of the Aerospace Safety Advisory P
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 23:33:28
Geoff Ralston, well-known in the startup community for his years at Y Combinator, is back in the formal investing ring, he announced Thursday. His new fund is called Safe Artificial Intelligence Fund, or SAIF, which is both an explanation of its thesis and a play on words. Ralston is specifically looking for startups that “enhance AI safety, security, and responsible deployment,” as his fund’s website describes. He plans to write $100,000 checks as a safe, “pun intended,” he says, with a $10 m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 03:45:01
New Jersey's Attorney General Matthew Platkin is suing Discord over the chat company's child safety features. The lawsuit claims that Discord has "misled parents about the efficacy of its safety controls and obscured the risks children faced when using the application." The Office of the Attorney General and the state's Division of Consumer Affairs concluded that Discord violated New Jersey's Consumer Fraud Act after a multiyear investigation into the company. The details of the lawsuit are cur
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 03:53:20
On Thursday, weeks after launching its most powerful AI model yet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google published a technical report showing the results of its internal safety evaluations. However, the report is light on the details, experts say, making it difficult to determine which risks the model might pose. Technical reports provide useful — and unflattering, at times — info that companies don’t always widely advertise about their AI. By and large, the AI community sees these reports as good-faith effor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 21:05:07
We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are “normal” in our conception. But it is in contrast to both utopian and dystopian visions of the future of AI which have a common tendency to treat it akin to a separate species, a highly autonomous, potentially superintelligent entity. 1 1. Nick Bostrom. 2012. The superintelligen
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 06:28:02
In Brief X has not been faring well in the U.K., which used to be a major source of revenue for the social network prior to Elon Musk’s takeover. Still named Twitter UK Ltd, revenues and profits for X’s U.K. entity collapsed by over 60% in 2023, according to accounts filed this week with the U.K.’s Companies House. The company attributed the decline in revenues to lower advertising spending on the platform as a result of concerns over “brand safety and/or content moderation,” reported The Gua
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 15:50:03
In an update to its Preparedness Framework, the internal framework OpenAI uses to decide whether AI models are safe and what safeguards, if any, are needed during development and release, OpenAI said that it may “adjust” its requirements if a rival AI lab releases a “high-risk” system without comparable safeguards. The change reflects the increasing competitive pressures on commercial AI developers to deploy models quickly. OpenAI has been accused of lowering safety standards in favor of faster
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 03:12:05
On Monday, OpenAI launched a new family of AI models, GPT-4.1, which the company said outperformed some of its existing models on certain tests, particularly benchmarks for programming. However, GPT-4.1 didn’t ship with the safety report that typically accompanies OpenAI’s model releases, known as a model or system card. As of Tuesday morning, OpenAI had yet to publish a safety report for GPT-4.1 — and it seems it doesn’t plan to. In a statement to TechCrunch, OpenAI spokesperson Shaokyi Amdo s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 19:55:22
Trump has long espoused a love of coal. “I call it beautiful, clean coal—I tell my people to never use the word ‘coal’ unless you put ‘beautiful, clean’ before it,” the president recently said during a press event involving a backdrop of men dressed in coal miner outfits. The former reality TV star has also called the coal industry “just about the best,” and recently passed an executive order that seeks to “Reinvigorate America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry.” Whether the current president act
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 20:22:42
China just approved its first flying taxis for commercial passenger service. This groundbreaking move marks a significant shift in the future of urban mobility, positioning China at the forefront of autonomous air transport. These vehicles are expected to redefine how cities tackle traffic congestion and pollution, acting as a model for future smart city infrastructure worldwide. Official Regulatory Approval The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has granted air operator certificat
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 02:46:21
Job cuts at the US traffic safety regulator instigated by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency disproportionately hit staff assessing self-driving risks, hampering oversight of technology on which the world’s richest man has staked the future of Tesla. Of roughly 30 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration workers dismissed in February as part of Musk’s campaign to shrink the federal workforce, many were in the “office of vehicle automation safety,” people familiar wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 12:18:36
Meta expands restrictions for teen users to Facebook and Messenger 42 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images Meta is expanding Teen Accounts - what it considers its age-appropriate experience for under 18s - to Facebook and Messenger. The system involves putting younger teens on the platforms into more restricted settings by default, with parental permission required in order to live stream or turn off image protections for messages. It was first introd
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 02:51:39
Over the past decade, airlines have spent millions of dollars on safety videos featuring tropical islands and celebrities. Why? My 55-minute flight from Geneva to Zurich didn't land on its first attempt. The A220-100, caught in strong winds, trembled side to side as we descended. And instead of lowering its wheels as we approached the runway, the airplane accelerated high into the sky at the last second. My heart pumped. Thirty minutes later, the pilot tried again. The man to my left prayed.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 11:15:41
Two senators have sent a letter to multiple AI companion companies requesting information about their safety practices, including details about internal safety assessments and timelines of the implementation of guardrails, as CNN reported yesterday. The action follows the filing of two high-profile child welfare lawsuits against the Google-tied chatbot startup Character.AI, which has been accused in court filings by three families of facilitating the sexual and emotional abuse of minor users, a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 22:41:38
More than two years after Google was caught flat-footed by the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the company has dramatically picked up the pace. In late March, Google launched an AI reasoning model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, that leads the industry on several benchmarks measuring coding and math capabilities. That launch came just three months after the tech giant debuted another model, Gemini 2.0 Flash, that was state-of-the-art for the time. Google’s Director and Head of Product for Gemini, Tulsee Doshi,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 03:45:00
Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images On Nov. 7, 2024, Google released a System update for Android 9 and later, which included a new service, Android System SafetyCore. Most of these patches were the usual security fixes, but SafetyCore was new and different. Google said in a developer note that the release was an "Android system component that provides privacy-preserving on-device user protection infrastructure for apps." The update said nothing else. This information left ordinary users in the dark an
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If you get caught outdoors during a lightning storm, safety experts once recommended adopting a crouched position to lessen your chances of being struck by lightning. It turns out, however, that the position doesn’t make you any safer. In response to social media and other internet sources allegedly spreading misinformation about lightning safety, the National Lightning Safety Council (NLSC) is re-emphasizing the fact that the “crouch” is outdated advice, and urged educators and weather broadca
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 19:40:31
Ryan Haines / Android Authority There are quite a few reasons to buy a Google Pixel phone over other brands. These include the camera experience, the update policy and speed of updates, the Pixel-exclusive features, and more. Colleague Rita El-Khoury recently outlined her biggest reason to stick with Pixel phones, as she specifically praised the safety features. We included a poll in this article, asking readers why they used a Pixel phone, and here are the results. Why do you use a Pixel pho
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 04:45:23
For more background on safety and security issues related to C++, including definitions of “language safety” and “software security” and similar terms, see my March 2024 essay “C++ safety, in context.” This essay picks up our story where that one left off to bring us up to date with a specific focus on undefined behavior (aka UB). This is a status update on improvements currently in progress for hardening and securing our C++ software. The C++ community broadly has a lot of hardening work well
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 15:50:45
An Air France flight to the Caribbean returned to Paris last week after a passenger could not locate their cellphone, taking the “precautionary measure” to avoid a safety hazard if the unattended phone overheated. It was the airline’s second Caribbean-bound flight to turn around because of a phone since early February as the aviation industry grapples with the risk of fires sparked by lithium batteries. In the most recent case, the passenger and crew could not find the phone after the plane lef
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Rita El Khoury / Android Authority I bought my first Pixel, the 2 XL, in 2017, and I fell in love with it, so I’ve had nearly every major Pixel phone since then (I only skipped the Pixel 3 series). However, my reasons for choosing a Pixel have slowly morphed over the years. At first, a Pixel was my gateway into early Android betas and releases. It was also a purchase of necessity: this was the Android phone my job required me to have if I wanted to remain employed and stay on top of what Googl
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Six people have been reported dead. Deep Dive Yet another submarine has gone missing — though this time, it wasn't headed to visit the wreck of the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. This time, a vessel with 45 Russian tourists on board sank off the coast of a tourist resort in Hurghada, Egypt, in the Red Sea. As the BBC reports, at least six of the passengers are feared dead, with nine injured and 29 rescued. According to a Russian official in the area, at least five Russians were
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 06:39:11
Elon Musk has pledged that the work of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, would be “maximally transparent.” DOGE’s website is proof of that, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, and now White House adviser, has repeatedly said. There, the group maintains a list of slashed grants and budgets, a running tally of its work. But in recent weeks, The New York Times reported that DOGE has not only posted major mistakes to the website—crediting DOGE, for example, with saving $8 billion wh
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In a new report, a California-based policy group co-led by Fei-Fei Li, an AI pioneer, suggests that lawmakers should consider AI risks that “have not yet been observed in the world” when crafting AI regulatory policies. The 41-page interim report released on Tuesday comes from the Joint California Policy Working Group on Frontier AI Models, an effort organized by Governor Gavin Newsom following his veto of California’s controversial AI safety bill, SB 1047. While Newsom found that SB 1047 misse
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 22:16:25
rob dobi/Getty Images Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) keeps firing AI researchers -- and it's making the tech industry increasingly nervous about the American AI talent pipeline. On March 3, the long-rumored cuts to staff at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) finally landed. Multiple sources reported that 73 probationary employees were fired, many of whom worked on the CHIPS for America initiative, as anticipated. The CHIPS Act aims to ramp up chip
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Things seem to be going nightmarishly bad at an isolated scientific base in Antarctica, where a researcher has been accused of assaulting and threatening to murder colleagues. As England's The Times reports, an unnamed climate researcher at the South African National Antarctic Expedition (SANAE IV), a scientific base on Norway's Queen Maud Land region of the frozen continent, allegedly threatened the life of one of his colleagues, physically attacking one coworker and sexually assaulted another
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 10:29:46
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new instructions to scientists that partner with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) that eliminate mention of “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI fairness” in the skills it expects of members and introduces a request to prioritize “reducing ideological bias, to enable human flourishing and economic competitiveness.” The information comes as part of an updated cooperative research and development agreemen
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 10:53:00
In brief: Roblox has been heavily criticized for its (lack of) policy on younger players in the past. In a recent interview, the company's lead said that parents should always have the final word on what their children are allowed to play on their screens. Parents concerned about the content or interactions their children might encounter on Roblox should keep them off the platform. Company co-founder and CEO Dave Baszucki delivered this seemingly counterintuitive message in a recent BBC intervi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 02:12:42
Flock Safety and one of its long-time VCs, Bedrock Capital, announced Thursday that the startup raised a fresh $275 million at a $7.5 billion valuation. Flock makes computer vision-enabled video surveillance technology used by law enforcement as well as businesses, property management companies, and so on. It’s best known for its automatic license plate recognition tech, but Flock also makes gunshot detection tech marketed to schools, and recently acquired public safety drone company Aerodome.
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Forward-looking: Google adds its voice to the growing consensus for an industry-wide progress towards secure programming practices. There is a standardization opportunity for every player involved in the software business, with billions in savings to gain and better security for all. Security vulnerabilities related to memory safety are becoming increasingly troublesome among companies and organizations dealing with software products. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CIS
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