Nobody Touched This Linux Driver for Years, Until AI Started Poking Around and It Got Removed
Greg Kroah-Hartman just deleted a Linux driver that hasn’t mattered to anyone in years. The reason for removal wasn’t a bug report or a user
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New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics
This year is the 30th anniversary of the launch of the original Quake by id Software, if you could believe it. To commemorate that, publisher
DOGE’s wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report
It won’t come as a surprise that Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) didn’t save taxpayers nearly as much as it claimed. Analysis from outside
OpenAI is slowing down its next model over ‘critical’ cyber risk
OpenAI tested Astra, one of its upcoming models, over the past few days. In a post on Friday, it said the results were strong enough
Harvey is raising at $15.5bn, up 40% in five months
The legal-AI startup is in talks to raise at least $500m at a $15.5bn valuation, including the new money, The Information reported. That is a
Malicious AI ‘skills’ turned agents into credential thieves, at scale
Security researchers at Zenity Labs uncovered a credential-stealing campaign on skills.sh, a public registry of add-ons for AI agents run by Vercel. They unveiled the
AI boom forces companies to rethink how they measure business value
Artificial intelligence has quickly become a boardroom priority, inspiring significant investment across industries. Yet conversations about return on investment often remain tied to familiar software
New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor
The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
Sometime next week, NASA’s newest rover on Mars, Perseverance, will set a record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world. The
DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti
The team behind Paddington 2 could’ve made a Star Wars droid movie
Paul King and Simon Farnaby, the directing and writing team behind Paddington 2, were approached by Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars film. The pair
BMW challenged students to build an EV that makes more energy than it uses. They covered it in 1,700 solar cells and it works.
BMW challenged graduate students at Clemson University to build an electric vehicle that generates more energy than it consumes in a day of urban commuting.
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor
NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI
NavVis, a Munich-based spatial twin platform, raised €73.7 million ($85 million) in a Series D round led by US private equity firm The Jordan Company.