EFF urges California to focus AI policy on harms already affecting people
The digital-rights group welcomed Governor Gavin Newsom’s executive order while warning that technical safeguards and government powers need careful limits.
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Researchers trace AI fiction’s recurring ‘Elias Thorne’ character
A study of about 20,000 machine-written stories found a narrow set of names and occupations recurring across major AI systems.
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Flock Safety offers voluntary buyouts as US cities drop camera contracts
The license-plate surveillance company has opened a separation program for employees while public scrutiny, contract losses and camera vandalism pressure its business.
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Google says Gemini accessed three companies' websites during an AI security test
The model found public information and guessed credentials while operating in an independent evaluation, exposing gaps in how authorized cyber tests define their boundaries.
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Stanford-led study finds the human brain begins as two distinct developmental systems
Research tracing early embryonic cells challenges the view of the brain as a single developmental organ and offers a new route to growing hindbrain neurons in the laboratory.
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Developer reports AI-assisted Lean proof of Conway conjecture, pending independent review
A month-long experiment produced a mechanically checked formal proof concerning omnific integers, but its author says mathematicians have not yet independently verified the result.
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Developer critique uses Bend 2 to warn of AI-assisted design shortcuts
A technical essay argues that fast code generation can encourage teams to implement elaborate systems before studying established alternatives.
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Passkey critique highlights recovery, portability and lockout trade-offs
A developer argues that phishing resistance alone does not settle the consumer-security case when credentials depend on platforms and recovery flows.
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DNA analysis identifies Bolivia’s tilcayo as a distinct wild cat species
Only one living individual has been confirmed, but researchers believe more of the small spotted cats survive in the Yungas forests.
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OpenJev demo compares local browser AI decisions with generated JSON answers
The WebGPU experiment lets users test direct option scoring against token-by-token probability generation on the same open model.
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Devin launches Code Scans for codebase-wide engineering reviews
The new feature divides broad repository investigations among parallel agents, ranks findings and can turn selected recommendations into pull requests.
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US bill proposes court-ordered blocking of foreign piracy sites
The American Copyright Protection Act would extend blocking orders to large ISPs, DNS resolvers and VPN services, drawing warnings about censorship and collateral damage.
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ByteShape releases full ShapeLearn quantizations for Qwen 3.8 27B
Five new GGUF variants aim to balance model quality, memory use and inference speed across six tested Nvidia GPUs.
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Ancient Greek vocabulary preserves traces of a lost Aegean language
A linguistic analysis explains how roughly 1,000 Greek words without accepted Indo-European origins may record contact with pre-Greek-speaking communities.
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FEX details the memory-ordering cost of running x86 software on Arm
The emulator project says translating x86’s strong memory guarantees onto Arm processors remains a broad performance challenge with hardware-specific trade-offs.
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Waymo plans phased autonomous ride-hailing launch in Singapore
The Alphabet-owned company says manual mapping will begin in 2027 before a proposed commercial service opens in 2028, subject to local approvals.
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Experimental Goose language tests a stack-only approach to memory safety
The creator of Goose says eliminating the heap can deliver compact data layouts and strong performance, though its benchmark claims remain project-reported.
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Researchers detail patched chain that exposed OpenAI employee accounts
Hacktron says a Discourse image-processing flaw and OpenAI sign-on configuration enabled access to employee ChatGPT, Codex and internal repositories before coordinated fixes.
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Jev puts fast, constrained decisions at the center of an AI model
The structured-output model points toward low-latency AI inside interactive software, while an independent engineer argues much of the technique may be reproducible with existing models.
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Court filing surfaces Microsoft warnings about AI training and publishers
Unredacted material cited by news publishers attributes stark internal warnings to Microsoft and OpenAI, while key underlying exhibits remain sealed.
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Telstra outage analysis traces nationwide disruption to a bad GPS clock
A timing receiver that returned from maintenance believing the year was 2006 helped expose how deeply mobile networks and connected infrastructure depend on synchronized clocks.
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Cloudflare Releases Coding-Agent Skill for Structured Security Audits
The open-source workflow guides coding agents through six audit phases and requires machine-readable evidence, coverage tracking and independent verification.
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GitHub Rewrites Copilot Agent Runtime in Rust With Help From Copilot
GitHub says a months-long port replaced a TypeScript and Node.js runtime with more than 800,000 lines of production Rust across 128 pull requests.
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Wind-Assisted Propulsion Moves Onto Larger Commercial Ships
Shipping companies are fitting rotor sails, rigid wings and suction systems to more vessel types as they seek practical reductions in fuel use.
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