Collaborate Disseminate
James Cameron filmed his Avatar sequels there. Marvel filmed Thor, Iron Man 2, and The Avengers. Manhattan Beach Studios in Los Angeles even handled Star Wars’ series like Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Mandalorian, which Bloomberg points out is about “a heavi… Continue reading Hollywood Sci-fi Studio Lot Now Pitched As Site To Make Real Space-age Weapons
Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of China’s leader, Thailand’s king, or Saudi Arabia’s crown prince — and it will decline, reports the Associated Press.
That’s “a key finding from a Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday,” their art… Continue reading New Free Speech Concern: When AI Chatbots Won’t Criticize Leaders from Repressive Regimes
ZDNet reports on June’s Open Source Summit India 2026 in Mumbai, where Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman gave a talk titled “Rust and Linux: How the Rust Language is Going to Help Linux Succeed.”
Kroah-Hartman said in his keynote t… Continue reading Rust Will Help Linux Succeed and Makes Coding Fun, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman
The Washington Post describes a mid-tier executive at Meta as one of Silicon Valley’s “winners” whose financial security suddenly “evaporated” as their workforce “pushed headlong into AI and heavy job cuts,” creating a transformed job market. “Her ex-h… Continue reading As AI Transforms Silicon Valley, Some Tech Workers Face Evaporating Financial Security
An anonymous reader shared this report from Tom’s Hardware:
The Zilog Z80 has just turned 50 years old. This iconic 8-bit processor first went on sale in July 1976 and stayed in production for 48 years until Zilog, now a Littelfuse subsidiary, stoppe… Continue reading Zilog Z80 8-Bit CPU Turns 50, Open-source Replacement Heads To Drop-in DIP40 Silicon
“If tired or wasted passengers fall asleep in a traditional taxi or rideshare, the driver can shout or shake them awake,” reports Bloomberg. “Not so in a robotaxi…”
Ditto Kasendar remembers soft music drifting from the robotaxi’s speakers as he rode… Continue reading Dozens of Robotaxi Riders Are Falling Asleep, Sparking Frantic Calls For Emergency Services
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times:
A federal judge has halted California’s groundbreaking “Truth in Recycling” law, which aims to reduce consumer confusion about which packaging can be recycled. [Originally planned to t… Continue reading California’s ‘Truth in Recycling’ Law Blocked by Judge
“Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have been given a glimpse of the mechanisms that supermassive black holes use to feed themselves,” reports Space.com:
The powerful cosmic titans get really puzzling when astronomers using the JWST… Continue reading James Webb Space Telescope Discovers How Black Holes Feed Themselves
“A humanoid robot lost its head,” reports Newsweek, “during the world’s first free-combat tournament for full-sized humanoid robots.”
The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend competition began Thursday in Shenzhen, China, according to the article, with lo… Continue reading Robot ‘Decapitated’ in World’s First-Ever Humanoid UFC Fight
Windows 10 still runs on 16.9% of the Windows devices monitored by asset-tracking service Lansweeper. That’s more than one in six, The Register points out.
A year ago, the operating system accounted for about half of the machines in its dataset, fa… Continue reading Windows 10 Still Being Used, Often Unpatched and Insecure