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Meta is plowing tens of billions of dollars into GPU bit barns the size of Manhattan Island, and yet The Social Network has struggled to upstage rivals like OpenAI or Anthropic.…

India launched the $1.5 billion NISAR radar imaging satellite on Wednesday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, marking the first joint mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation. The satellite uses dual radar frequencies -- NASA's L-band and ISRO's S-band -- to detect Earth surface changes as small as one centimeter from its 747-kilometer orbit. NISAR will map the entire planet every 12 days using a 240-kilometer-wide radar swath, providing data for climate monitoring and disaster response that will be freely available to users worldwide.

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IBM report shows a rush to embrace technology without safeguarding it, and as for governance...

Organizations rushing to implement AI are neglecting security and governance, IBM claims, with attackers already taking advantage of lax protocols to target models and applications.…

Dropbox will shut down its password manager service by October 28, giving users until then to extract their data before permanent deletion. The discontinuation occurs in phases: Dropbox Passwords becomes view-only on August 28, the mobile app stops working September 11, and complete shutdown follows October 28. The company cited focusing on core product features as the reason for dropping the service, which launched in 2020 for paid users and expanded to all users in 2021.

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Data stream from aging sensor to continue after public backlash and amateur workaround

The US Navy has announced plans to continue distributing satellite data needed for hurricane forecasting, months after authorities said the data stream was to be turned off.…

Google will soon cast an even wider net with its AI age estimation technology. From a report: After announcing plans to find and restrict underage users on YouTube, the company now says it will start detecting whether Google users based in the US are under 18. Age estimation is rolling out over the next few weeks and will only impact a "small set" of users to start, though Google plans on expanding it more widely. The company says it will use the information a user has searched for or the types of YouTube videos they watch to determine their age. Google first announced this initiative in February. If Google believes that a user is under 18, it will apply the same restrictions it places on users who proactively identify as underage.

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Read-only in weeks, deleted forever in months

Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service.…

'This was a deliberate, coordinated, digital attack'

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the state's National Guard and declared a state of emergency in response to a cyberattack on the city of Saint Paul.…

Journalist Jack Poulson accidentally discovered that Google had completely removed two of his articles from search results after someone exploited a vulnerability in the company's Refresh Outdated Content tool. The security flaw allowed malicious actors to de-list specific web pages by submitting URLs with altered capitalization to Google's recrawling system. When Google attempted to index these modified URLs, the system received 404 errors and subsequently removed all variations of the page from search results, including the original legitimate articles. The affected stories concerned tech CEO Delwin Maurice Blackman's 2021 arrest on felony domestic violence charges. In a statement to 404 Media, Google confirmed the vulnerability and said it had deployed a fix for the issue.

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Can we have this as a global feature in all software? Please?

Zed, a fast new Rust-based text editor aimed at programmers, now lets you totally disable LLM bot integration. We're sure some users will rejoice – but how many?…