Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters reports that Meta allowed the creation — and in some cases produced internally — dozens of flirtatious AI chatbots modelled…
Battlefield 6 Dev Apologises For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti-Cheat Tools Summary EA required Secure Boot for the Battlefield 6 PC open beta so its Javelin anti‑cheat can run…
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Summary Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Vivaldi, has reiterated the browser’s refusal to embed generative AI. In a blog post and an…
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions on its AI chatbots for teenage users after reports they…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon has told TechCrunch it cannot comply with Mississippi’s new age-verification law (HB1126) because its decentralised…
China Turns On Giant Neutrino Detector That Took a Decade To Build Summary China has switched on JUNO (the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Experiment) after more than a decade of construction.…
Alibaba Creates AI Chip To Help China Fill Nvidia Void Summary Alibaba has developed a domestically manufactured, general-purpose AI inference chip that is now in testing. The new chip is…
New Python Documentary Released On YouTube Summary An 84-minute documentary tracing Python’s journey from Guido van Rossum’s 1991 side project in Amsterdam to its role powering modern AI and major…
Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Summary Reports from Futurism and the Washington Post highlight a growing public backlash against always-on, AI-powered smart glasses that listen and…
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary Researchers from an international team (Singapore and Japan) outline a blueprint for making ordered, repeating lattices of knot-like light structures…
