Collaborate Disseminate
Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot writes: Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can not only skitter about on its fingertips, it can also bend its fingers backward, connect and disconnect from a robotic arm, and pick up and carry one or mo… Continue reading Researchers Develop Detachable Crawling Robotic Hand
Imagine a 280-unit apartment complex offering no on-site leasing office with a human agent for questions. “Instead, the entire process has been outsourced to AI…” reports SFGate, “from touring to signing the lease to completing management tasks once … Continue reading AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America’s Apartments
You might not have noticed, but we here at Hackaday are pretty big fans of Open Source — software, hardware, you name it. We’ve also spilled our fair share of …read more Continue reading What About the Droid Attack on the Repos?
Friday Amazon published a blog post “to address the inaccuracies” in a Financial Times report that the company’s own AI tool Kiro caused two outages in an AWS service in December.
Amazon writes that the “brief” and “extremely limited” service interru… Continue reading Amazon Disputes Report an AWS Service Was Taken Down By Its AI Coding Bot
A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science — but ended up with “a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes.”
While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly u… Continue reading Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 combat aircraft is a supersonic stealth “strike fighter.” But this week the military news site TWZ reports that the fighter’s “computer brain,” including “its cloud-based components, could be cracked to accept third-party softwar… Continue reading F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like an IPhone: Dutch Defense Minister
Mega Man is a popular video game character who is perhaps most notable for having a sort of lasery-type blaster for an arm. A real hand cannon, if you will. …read more Continue reading Recreating Mega Man’s Mega Buster
Maggie Miller, Dana Nickel and Antoaneta Roussi report: NATO countries’ restrained response to hybrid attacks is at odds with public opinion, new polling shows: Broad swaths of the public in key allied countries say actions such as cyberattacks on hosp… Continue reading Top NATO allies believe cyberattacks on hospitals are an act of war. They’re still struggling to fight back.
The hospitality sector has long been a target of hackers, and it’s a global problem. Here are three recent attacks in the news this week: In the U.S.: Choice Hotels International disclosed a breach affecting franchisees and applicants. Its notifi… Continue reading The hospitality sector continues to be lucrative targets
That Error 0xC000026F in Excel Power Query is a major roadblock. It typically crashes Excel completely when you try to open the Query Editor or refresh data, and it’s especially common on newer laptops with Snapdragon X processors (like the lates… Continue reading Excel Power Query keeps crashing with Error 0xC000026F