Collaborate Disseminate
Electrek reports:
Tesla wants to sell modular AI data center hardware, according to a new trademark application for a product called “Megapod.” The filing describes a complete, self-contained computing system for AI workloads…
Tesla filed the “Me… Continue reading Is Tesla Planning To Sell Modular AI Data Center Hardware?
PC Gamer reports:
The UK government is considering an Australia-style ban on social media for under-16s, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying that the ban could take effect as soon as spring next year. As for the much nearer future, Science and Te… Continue reading UK Official Promises Statements ‘Around VPNs’ and Further Teen Restrictions on Chatbots and Social Media
404 Media remembers how a Florida police office looked up his ex-girlfriend’s license plate in the Flock automated license plate reader system at least 69 times in 2024 — even searching for her mom’s license plate at least 24 times. The police of… Continue reading Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock’s Cameras to Stalk People
Tech Times reports:
Linux 7.2’s merge window closed out a cleanup campaign on Friday that most kernel developers had stopped expecting to see end: the complete removal of strncpy(), a C string-copy function that the kernel’s own documentation labels … Continue reading After Six Years Of Work and Over 360 Patches, Linux 7.2 Finally Removes Bug-Prone strncpy
NBC News reports:
A group of companies that specialize in tracking international shipments of sensitive technologies is backing a Capitol Hill bill that would require America’s most powerful AI chips to incorporate stronger security mechanisms aimed … Continue reading US Bill Would Mandate AI Chip Location Tracking to Thwart China and Other Adversaries
While the Rust Foundation has a Security Initiative to protect its ecosystem, “the threats have expanded,” they announced this week, “and so has the kind of help maintainers need.”
Much of this comes back to a single shift: Automated tooling (much of … Continue reading The Rust Ecosystem Gets an AI Security Engineer in Residence
This week the Ubuntu desktop’s director of engineering announced they’re bringing speech-to-text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop, aiming for an experience “that feels like a natural part of the desktop while respecting user privacy and running entirely on … Continue reading Canonical’s Upcoming AI Tool: Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Typing
“A grassroots movement is forming among everyday tech workers who are demanding their companies develop and deploy AI responsibly,” reports TechCrunch.
Hoping to leverage that discontent is a new super PAC called the Guardrails Alliance. The New York… Continue reading New Super PAC Aims to Rally Tech Workers to Help Limit AI: ‘the Guardrails Alliance’
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press:
Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, are preparing to equip cameras on some public buses with facial recognition software capable of identifying passengers who appear on a list of banne… Continue reading Facial Recognition on Public Buses? Kansas City Says Yes
In January a college student posted a video showing him winning $100,000 on Polymarket — one of 145 that appeared to show bets adding up to almost $410,000, reports the Wall Street Journal. “But none of those bets were real.”
Instead its creato… Continue reading Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves ‘Winning’ With Fake Bets