GM Plans Renewed Push On Driverless Cars After Cruise Debacle Summary General Motors is reviving its autonomous driving programme, tapping former Cruise employees and Sterling Anderson (ex-Tesla Autopilot) to help…
Trump Calls Intel CEO a ‘Success’ After Demanding Resignation Summary President Donald Trump reversed course days after calling for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign over past ties to China.…
The Dead Need Right To Delete Their Data So They Can’t Be AI-ified, Lawyer Says Summary Legal scholar Victoria Haneman argues that U.S. law should give estates a time-limited right…
Jellyfish Swarm Forces French Nuclear Plant To Shut Summary The Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France temporarily shut down after a large swarm of jellyfish clogged its cooling intake…
LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find Summary Researchers (University of Arizona, preprint arXiv:2508.01191 and reported by Ars Technica via Slashdot) investigated whether modern chain-of-thought (CoT) large…
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work At Chipotle. Summary The New York Times piece reports on this year’s cohort of computer science graduates facing a much tougher job…
Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World Summary Former NSA and U.S. Cyber Command chief Paul Nakasone warned at Defcon that tech companies will find it…
Reddit Will Block the Internet Archive Summary Reddit says it has discovered AI companies scraping its content via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and will limit the Archive’s ability to…
America’s Clean Hydrogen Dreams Are Fading, Again Summary Congress recently shortened the eligibility window for a Biden-era clean-hydrogen tax credit, now requiring projects to be under construction by the end…
Promising Linux Project Dies After Dev Faces Harassment Summary Kapitano, a GTK4 front end for the ClamAV scanner intended to make virus scanning on Linux more user-friendly, has been abandoned…
