Students Have Been Called to the Office – Or Arrested – for False Alarms from AI-Powered Surveillance Systems Summary American school districts increasingly deploy AI-driven monitoring tools (examples: Gaggle, Lightspeed…
Chevy Silverado EV Drives 1,059.2 Miles on a Single Charge, Surpassing World Record Summary GM engineers ran a week-long demonstration in a 2026 Chevy Silverado EV Work Truck that travelled…
Spacecraft Designed That Could Carry 2,400 People on a 400-Year Trip to Alpha Centauri Summary Engineers have proposed a conceptual generational starship called “Chrysalis” that could carry up to 2,400…
Initiative Seeks AI Lab to Build ‘American Truly Open Models’ (ATOM) Summary The ATOM Project (American Truly Open Models) proposes a US-based AI lab dedicated to producing large open-source models…
ChatGPT Is Bringing Back 4o Summary OpenAI reinstated GPT-4o as an option for ChatGPT Plus subscribers just a day after making GPT-5 the default, following a strong user backlash. Sam…
Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It’s ‘Nearly Unusable’ For Enterprise Summary Security researchers from NeuralTrust and SPLX report that GPT-5, newly released and touted as a major upgrade,…
UK Courts Service ‘Covered Up’ IT Bug That Lost Evidence Summary A leaked internal report — covered in a Slashdot item that links to the BBC investigation — alleges that…
Millions Flock To Grow Virtual Gardens In Viral Roblox Game Key Insights • “Grow a Garden” is a simple Roblox game created by a 16‑year‑old in a matter of days…
Net Neutrality Advocates Won’t Appeal Loss Summary Advocacy groups including Free Press, the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, New America’s Open Technology Institute and Public Knowledge announced they will…
Smartwatches Offer Little Insight Into Stress Levels, Researchers Find Summary A study reported via The Guardian and shared on Slashdot examined whether consumer smartwatches can accurately track users’ stress. Researchers…
