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A proposed New Jersey bill requiring all driverless vehicles to be equipped with lidar could effectively ban Tesla’s robotaxi service in the state, reigniting the decade-old debate over whether cameras alone are sufficient for autonomous driving. The legislation, first reported by The Verge, mandates that any vehicle operating without a human driver must carry lidar […]

Enterprise adoption of AI-powered tools has opened a new front in data security: unintentional data leakage through employees pasting sensitive information into chatbots, AI search tools, and coding assistants, often without realizing the data is leaving the organization’s control. TechRadar reports that the problem has reached crisis proportions as businesses deploy AI tools like ChatGPT, […]

Nvidia is positioning its Vera CPU, an 88-core Arm processor now in full production, around a metric the company rarely leads on: single-threaded performance, which it argues is critical for the “think fast, verify, and orchestrate” workloads of agentic AI. Announced at GTC in March and shipping in systems from Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro […]

A bizarre chain reaction of hacking, adult content theft, and copyright enforcement is producing an unexpected outcome: hacked government websites are being taken down by DMCA takedown notices filed by OnlyFans creators. WIRED reports that scammers have been hijacking legitimate government websites, often poorly maintained municipal or state pages, to host advertisements for “leaked” OnlyFans […]

Check Point Research has demonstrated that DeepSeek V4 generated near-functional browser-based ransomware, dubbed InfernoGrabber 9000, that uses Chrome’s legitimate File System Access API to encrypt local files across Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android, without requiring any native malware installation or exploit. The proof-of-concept reveals a new attack vector: an AI model independently linked a theoretical […]

Intel has published a patent for a novel high-bandwidth memory design called XBM (Cross-Batch Memory) that aims to challenge HBM4’s dominance in AI accelerators and data center processors, using UCIe interconnects and back-end-of-line DRAM to sidestep the cost and complexity of traditional HBM packaging. HBM has become the de facto memory standard for AI hardware, […]

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, the FBI, and industry partners have dismantled NetNut, a massive residential proxy network that secretly hijacked over 2 million smart TVs, streaming boxes, and Android devices to launder cybercriminal traffic. Also known as Popa, the botnet infected devices through trojanized applications and malware such as Badbox 2.0, infecting everything from off-brand […]

Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI-powered content moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months, after harmless images, including spreadsheets, chessboards, game textures, and simple white or gray transparent backgrounds, were incorrectly flagged as harmful content. The company confirmed the issue had been affecting accounts since May, […]

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is developing its own custom inference chip, marking a strategic pivot toward hardware independence as US export controls tighten access to advanced semiconductors. The project, confirmed by three people familiar with the matter and first reported by Reuters, has been underway for roughly a year. DeepSeek has been quietly building a […]

Meta has launched Muse Image, its first in-house AI image generation model, with a feature that lets users pull a friend’s Instagram likeness into a generated photo, raising familiar questions about consent, deepfakes, and synthetic content in social feeds. Built by the Alexandr Wang-led Meta Superintelligence Lab, Muse Image is now available in the US […]