Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing
Robert Ferris put the question to forecasters and executives for CNBC on 15 August. The average American car is now 12.8 years old, on Mobility
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A phone company just lost 1.6 million records to a phone call
Have I Been Pwned logged the leaked records, and The Register reported the dump on 14 August. Jessica Lyons, its cybersecurity editor, wrote it. A
Overshared to an AI? Proton’s Tool Will Give You a Reality Check
Proton has launched AI Paper Trail, a free tool that shows people what their AI chatbot conversations reveal about them. It runs on Lumo (partner
Nitrux Shows Off a New Desktop Approach Other Distros Might Want to Take Note of
Don’t think that this move came out of the blue. Nitrux has been busy building this up since last year, when it swapped out KDE
Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs
Sam Altman told a summit of tech interns that two years of college was “the exact right amount of time” for him and that four
The US is about to tell 35 countries to choose between it and China on AI
Michael Martina reported the draft for Reuters on 14 August, citing a US official and an internal document. The letter goes to the 35 signatories
VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney’s D23 fan event
It was a busy first day at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, in Anaheim, California, with Marvel Studios releasing the first trailer for VisionQuest.
Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Saturday that his country struck the Progress Rocket Space Center deep within Russia using ground-launched cruise missiles. “In Russia’s
Voyah recreated Mercedes’ upside-down tunnel ad, then launched the car for $33,800
Dongfeng’s Voyah launched the Passion S electric SUV on Friday after promoting it with a stunt in which the car drove a full loop around
Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold
Anthropic has told prospective investors that second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5bn, more than 14 times the $787mn it made a year earlier, and that it recorded
LG’s humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T
LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of 2027, built on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor processor, Isaac GR00T foundation model and Halos
AMD raises $4.75bn in its biggest ever bond sale
AMD has raised $4.75bn in its biggest ever US dollar bond offering, sold in four tranches with maturities from three to ten years. It held
So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year
It’s been a wild first half of the year in the US power sector, with announcements of gigantic natural gas power plants and some long-awaited
PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows