Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley Summary The Register’s Simon Sharwood tried a Job Bolt AI avatar interview for a fictional editor…
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices Summary Alphabet’s Google has been hit with a $3.45 billion fine by the European Commission for anti‑competitive practices in…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural‑network pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI will concentrate wealth in a…
Summary Anthropic is expanding existing restrictions and will block access to its AI services for companies that are majority-owned by entities from countries such as China, including their overseas subsidiaries.…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, an AI-powered debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to help de-escalate heated…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Content Summary Paris operates a river‑water district cooling network that pipes Seine water through heat exchangers to cool roughly 800 buildings,…
Summary A first-of-its-kind global research expedition (Expedition 501) drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed 20–30 miles off Cape Cod and retrieved low-salinity water from beneath the Atlantic continental…
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit Summary Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class-action fund to settle litigation brought…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Summary Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have created A2, an AI-powered agent that discovers and validates vulnerabilities in Android…
Summary Mozilla has announced it will end official 32-bit Linux support for Firefox in 2026. Version 144 will be the final regular 32-bit release, with ESR 140 offered as a…
