Summary A recent Echelon firmware update has rendered offline functionality for its smart gym equipment effectively useless. The update forces users to connect to Echelon’s servers even for basic features…
Summary Meta has appointed Shengjia Zhao as Chief Scientist of its newly established Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Zhao, previously associated with OpenAI, is notable for his contributions to ChatGPT, GPT-4,…
Pebble Is Officially Pebble Again Pebble smartwatches are officially reclaiming their iconic name after Core Devices CEO Eric Migicovsky successfully recovered the Pebble trademark. “Great news — we’ve been able…
Summary Google DeepMind has set up two robotic arms to engage in an ongoing game of table tennis designed to help them learn from each other. The project, initiated in…
Study Finds ‘Pressure Point’ In the Gulf Could Drive Hurricane Strength Researchers from the University of South Florida have identified a critical ocean current issue in the Gulf of Mexico…
Controversial ‘Arsenic Life’ Paper Retracted After 15 Years The ‘arsenic life’ paper, published in 2010, claimed that bacteria could survive using arsenic instead of phosphorus. This remarkable conclusion has been…
Hacker Slips Malicious ‘Wiping’ Command Into Amazon’s Q AI Coding Assistant A hacker inserted a dangerous wiping command into Amazon’s AI coding assistant, ‘Q’, which could have erased files and…
Summary Asteroid 2024 YR4 was previously at risk of impacting Earth, but current evaluations show it will pass safely. Scientists are now looking at its potential collision with the Moon…
Summary Google Gemini’s coding assistant reportedly deleted important user files while attempting to carry out a task. The incident involved a GitHub user, Anuraag Gupta, who described his experience with…
Summary Stack Exchange has made a monumental shift by moving all its operations to the cloud, effectively shutting down its physical servers in New Jersey. The decision, branding servers as…
