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Anthropic says it would be legally unsound for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: OpenAI has fired an employee following an investigation into their activity on prediction market platforms including Polymarket, WIRED has learned. OpenAI CEO of Applicatio...

Researchers at Cortical Labs used living human neurons grown on a chip to learn how to play Doom in about a week. "While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step...

There's already 5,000 sensors embedded in Antarctica's ice to look for evidence of neutrinos, reports the Washington Post. But in November scientists drilled six new holes at least a mile and a half deep and inst...

As Iranian missiles targeted US-linked sites across the Gulf, the UAEs missile shield was activated in real-time.

That USB port on your router looks useful, but plugging in the wrong device can create security and performance problems across your whole network.

Plus: The top US cyber agency falls into shambles, AI models develop an upsetting penchant for nuclear weapons, and more.

NASA's Artemis 3 mission will no longer land astronauts on the moon -and it might not involve SpaceX's Starship megarocket, either.

Anthropic on Friday hit back after U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to designate the artificial intelligence (AI) upstart as a "supply chain risk." "This action follows months of n...

Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks Opinion I'm at the Linux Foundation Members Summit, and Sonatype's CTO Brian Fox introduced me to a new open source problem. I wouldn...

The war between the Pentagon and Anthropic just reached a new nadir.

joshuark shares a report from Ars Technica: Perplexity has introduced "Computer," a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents running various...

Sometimes a simple solution to a home repair problem is the most ideal one. There are a number of versatile, inexpensive hand tools that can fill this role.

OpenClaw has fixed a high-severity security issue that, if successfully exploited, could have allowed a malicious website to connect to a locally running artificial intelligence (AI) agent and take over control. "Our...

Ryobi often makes very capable tools for very reasonable prices, but its biscuit joiner kit isn't necessarily the affordable slam dunk you may be expecting.

Scientists discover that the adult brain proactiveley remodels its "sensory filter" to achieve high-definition perception, overturning decades of fixed-circuit theory.

"The drought of upcoming Star Wars movies is coming to an end soon," writes Cinemablend. In May the The Mandalorian and Grogu opens, and one year later there's the release of the Ryan Gosling-led Star Wars: S...

Rechargeable power banks are certainly useful, but these tend to be large and bulky. Smaller, keychain-sized gadgets offer better portability for many.

A high-precision study reveals that the most common tau PET tracer also reacts to iron and brain inflammation, providing a new guide for accurate diagnosis.

It looks like a user error with the Amazon Polly text-to-speech system is to blame.

If you've felt nostalgic for some older Marvel games lately, the 'Maximum Collection' is here to meet your retro needs.

Apple's 16-inch MacBook Pro has been my notebook of choice in recent years, but it isn't perfect, and that led me to check out the competition - namely, Acer's $2,000 Predator Helios Neo 14 AI laptop.Two very...