Cruise self-driving car runs over and stops on pedestrian after they were hit by human driver
It's just the latest incident involving robotaxis
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FBI indicts three in insider trading scheme that utilized Xbox 360 chat to hide comms
Ringleader could be looking at as much as 165 years in prison
PSA: Filling heatpipes with a sodium-potassium alloy is not a good idea
Possibly the most dangerous CPU cooler ever created
Booking.com "technical issue" leads to months-long payment delays for hoteliers
The company recorded $5.5 billion in revenue and a profit of $1.3 billion during Q2
Cooler Master's award-winning Sneaker X PC can be yours for $3,499
Or $3,799 if you want the more powerful version
Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily, most spend almost two hours on TikTok
Kids officially don't like Facebook
CERN experiment confirms gravity affects antimatter, too
Results rule out cosmological models relying on repulsive matter-antimatter gravitation
Netflix reveals trailers for animated Devil May Cry and Tomb Raider shows
Let's hope they do the games justice
OpenAI collaborates with legendary Apple designer Jony Ive on consumer AI product
Building the "iPhone of artificial intelligence"
AI is a surveillance technology, says Signal boss
AI companies are abusing both human workers and user privacy to make money
Meta pays $181 million to exit a lease on an office it never used
Hybrid work schemes have left many offices empty
The EU says Twitter/X is the worst platform for disinformation
Just as it removes a way to report election misinformation
What just happened? The European Union has identified X, formerly Twitter, as the social media platform with the highest ratio of misinformation/disinformation posts. The news came just as X disabled a feature that allows users to report misinformation related to elections.
20 Years of Steam: From Half-Life 2 to the Steam Deck
Few things are as closely associated with PC gaming as Steam. Microsoft might provide the OS. Intel, AMD, and Nvidia power the most popular gaming hardware. But for most people, Steam is PC gaming.
John Carmack foresees a breakthrough in artificial general intelligence by 2030
Carmack says Quake paved the way for today's AI
Gen Z falls victim to online scams more often than boomers, says Deloitte survey
Growing up with the internet vs. watching it arrive
In brief: There might be a stereotypical image of internet users aged 70 to 79 happily handing their bank details over to a "Nigerian prince" they just met on Facebook. But the surprising truth is that Generation Z – those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s – get scammed a lot more than their boomer grandparents.
Unity caves to community blowback and revises controversial runtime fee
Unity seeks unity with the community
Ransomware group claims to have breached "all of Sony's networks" and is selling the data
The claims remain unverified
System admin and wife plead guilty to "massive" pirated software licensing scam
Couple faces 20 years and forfeiture of $4 million in cash and property
Asus shows off $200,000 135-inch ProArt MicroLED display
That's about $100 per every nit of brightness
5 great US startup ecosystems to explore for your next job
Roles across data science, cybersecurity, web designers, software engineers, QA and testers will see the biggest growth
Large Hadron Collider needed a new database system to sustain its petabyte-hungry experiments
CERN's CMS detector was suffering from high cardinality issues
Modder uses CAD software and 3D printer to create custom cooling ducts
Stock cooling leaves a lot of performance on the table
Joby Aviation paves way for the flying taxi era with $500M investment in Ohio plant
Home of the Wright brothers
Data regulators in Ireland fine TikTok €345 million for mishandling children's user data
Another major privacy concern strikes the app
