Collaborate Disseminate
The Washington Post shares this tip for car buyers.
Electric vehicles “are not driving the recent growth in recalls warning that vehicles could erupt into flames at any time, even when parked and turned off.”
A Washington Post analysis of National … Continue reading Millions of Cars Recalled Over Danger of Bursting Into Flames. But They’re Not EVs.
The Washington Post looks “a growing number of Americans who have had their private conversations with AI chatbots made public in court,” calling the chatbots “custodians of a fast-growing trove of intimate data that can be sought by law enforcement, o… Continue reading Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court
Phoronix reports on Greg Kroah-Hartman’s recent slide from his upcoming talk in Paris at Kernel Recipes 2026 (September 21 to 23):
With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel’s vast codebase, there has been a surge in the num… Continue reading The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release
Rockstar Games has released a 26-minute “extended look” at Grand Theft Auto VI, due for release November 19th.
After one day the video had nearly 10 million views on YouTube, and when Netflix streamed the footage, “some viewers had to refresh the page … Continue reading ‘Grand Theft Auto 6’ Preview Signals Blockbuster Demand, Analysts Say
A new survey on police license plate cameras found that “more Americans oppose these surveillance cameras than support them,” reports TechCrunch:
According to a new YouGov survey of 20,000 people across the U.S. that was shared exclusively with The Wa… Continue reading As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support
Gluons are the quantum ‘Gorilla Glue’ involved in binding quarks together, ScienceAlert reminds us. But for nearly 50 years, physicists have hunted for “glueballs”, exotic particles predicted by this theory of the strong interaction — the only ty… Continue reading After 50 Years, Physicists May Have Finally Found a Particle Made of Pure Force
The long legal battle over ownership of Linux “is closer than ever to ending,” reports the Register, “after a panel of three judges ruled a claim against IBM and Red Hat isn’t valid, and that time has expired for further action.”
In 2021, an heir to… Continue reading SCO Successor Xinuos Asks Court to Rehear Its Claims Against IBM/Red Hat Over Project Monterey
A Pew Research senior data scientist analyzed 500,000 English-language webpages from the past five years with an AI detection tool to estimate how many were likely written or edited by AI:
Of all the pages in this sample, 10% show significant sign… Continue reading One-Third of Web Pages are Now Written With AI, Says Pew Research
3,346 backers pledged $1,198,844 on Kickstarter to build the (modular) handheld Linux computer, the Mecha Comet. It’s slightly bigger and heavier than your smartphone, with a 4-inch AMOLED display and loaded up with things like microphones, speakers, a… Continue reading Could Mecha Comet’s Linux PC-Phone Hybrid Be the Future of Linux Smartphones?
It’s “radically different from other quantum computers” reports Phys.org. The Helios system uses trapped ions — charged atoms suspended in free space using electromagnetic fields.
But it operates with 98 qubits — making it the largest tra… Continue reading The Global Race To Make a Practical Quantum Computer Just Took a Big Leap Forward