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A whistleblower believes the self-driving vehicle technology is not safe enough for public roads.

The multicellular bots move around and help heal “wounds” created in cultured neurons. Scientists at Tufts and Harvard made tiny biological robots called Anthrobots using human tracheal cells. These tiny robots move and, in the lab, help neurons grow in damaged areas. The researchers hope to use similar biobots made from...

Biotech company 23andMe first disclosed a data breach affecting a portion of its customers back in October. The information was obtained in a credential stuffing attack. An SEC filing now reveals roughly 14,000 accounts were accessed, along with information on millions of users participating in the DNA Relatives feature.

The promised wave of autonomous big rigs never materialized. But 2024 could prove to be a pivotal year for the technology.

AI chatbot deception paper suggests that some bots (and people) aren't very persuasive.

The reactor, a forerunner for the vast ITER experiment in France, has the potential to hasten the race for cleaner energy.

After getting fed up with the general neglect of MacOS accessibility from Apple, and having wanted to work on something meaningful for quite some time, I decided to attempt something that for some reason nobody seems to have tried to do before: write a completely new screen-reader for that platform. This isn't an easy task, not...

YouTube's dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there's an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

Meta and YouTube are looking to Demi Lovato, Tom Brady and other A-listers to mainstream the technology — flawed guardrails and all.

Altman explains why he decided to return to OpenAI and what comes next for the company.

Meta's Facebook lost the latest round of a court battle over privacy with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday after a federal judge ruled the regulator can seek to reduce the amount of money the social media company makes from users under 18.

Web storefront maker fixed the flaw, but not before blasting infoseccer

For most games, a license is either free or the cost of a medium-nice dinner.

A soft robot replica solves a mystery about the evolution of movement.

Three researchers have found a long-sought way to pull information from large databases secretly, moving us closer to fully private internet searches.

I hope Windows 12 brings back point releases.

Three computer scientists have disproved a long-standing conjecture about a fundamental problem involving imperfect information.

Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Sam Altman confronted a member over a research paper that discussed the company, while directors disagreed for months about who should fill board vacancies....

The Orion capsule's heat shield suffered some unexpected damage at the conclusion of the Artemis 1 mission.

Uno reverse.

X's complaint alleged that Media Matters "manipulated" the platform's algorithm to generate inorganic ad placements to form a "blatant smear campaign," but the complaint seemingly admitted that no statements that Media Matters published were false. Media Matters will likely argue that advertisers could interpret its reporting...

Seriously, avoid Nothing Chats and check your Apple ID.

Google has officially announced plans to gradually eliminate third-party cookies, a key aspect of its Privacy Sandbox initiative.

Sam Altman, the now former CEO of OpenAI, has departed his role and is leaving its board, according to a company post on Friday. But questions about his role at other entities like Worldcoin, the crypto project he co-founded, remain up in the air as its token falls on the news.