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California lawmakers pretend to regulate AI, create a pile of paperwork
A year after vetoing a tougher bill, California Gov Gavin Newsom has signed the nation's first AI transparency law, forcing big model developers to publish frameworks and file incident reports, but critics argue it's more paperwork than protection.…
Senators rail against Tesla AI's apparent inability to detect train crossings
A pair of US senators is asking the federal traffic safety agency to look into Tesla's self-driving software in response to complaints that it fails to stop for trains at railroad crossings.…
Warnings about Cisco vulns under active exploit are falling on deaf ears
Nearly 50,000 Cisco ASA/FTD instances vulnerable to two bugs that are actively being exploited by "advanced" attackers remain exposed to the internet, according to Shadowserver data.…
Pop! System76's 24.04 beta is here – complete with a beta of polarizing COSMIC
It's September 2025 and the beta of the April 2024 release of Pop!_OS is here. It's fast, fluid – and fallible.…
Logitech's MX Master 4 mouse buzzes with haptic feedback but lacks lefty love
(Right) Hands On Logitech has unveiled its latest MX Master mouse, filled with impressive new productivity features, including an added button and haptic feedback. However, like most mice on the market, it's right-handed only.…
Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead? No, wait – it's on Windows
Zed Industries has released a public beta of its code editor for Windows, marking a significant milestone for the Rust-based VS Code alternative that has until now been limited to macOS and Linux users.…
ServiceNow thinks you're doing AI fast and wrong
Three weeks after releasing one of its biannual platform upgrades, ServiceNow has started delivering an "AI Experience."…
NASA's deep-space laser comms demo has left the chat
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) demonstration has completed its final pass, although there is a chance the system might be reactivated in the second half of 2026.…
'Money-saving' UK procurement platform racks up monster tab
The UK government is set to see annual spending on a procurement portal designed to help save money increase by more than eight times compared to projected plans.…
Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide
The government is to encourage police forces across England and Wales to adopt live facial recognition (LFR) technology, with a minister praising its use by the London's Metropolitan Police in a suburb in the south of the city.…
£5.5B Bitcoin fraudster pleads guilty after years on the run
London's Metropolitan Police has secured a "landmark conviction" following a record-busting Bitcoin seizure and seven-year investigation.…
UK splurges £4.4M on drones, e-planes, and other flights of fancy
The British government is splashing several million pounds on next-gen aviation projects to advance the use of unmanned aircraft for applications such as cargo delivery and infrastructure monitoring, as well as potential electric-powered light aircraft carrying passengers.…
Healthcare lags in Windows 11 upgrades – and lives may depend on it
Interview Enterprise plans for the end of Windows 10 should already be well underway, but some sectors are lagging, and there are other potential time bombs for administrators to worry about, according to asset management outfit Lansweeper.…
Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers
Opinion There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says, however, that there won't be much of an impact at all.…
AI upstart aims to do what mere mortals can't: Make sense of Microsoft licensing
Interview It was inevitable that AI would be deployed to help enterprises navigate the labyrinth that is modern software licensing, given the myriad options available from the tech giants.…
VMware bungles cloud management portal upgrade, twice in two weeks
VMware has bungled a portal upgrade project that aims to give its customers a superior experience when managing their clouds.…
YouTube coughs up $24.5 million to make Trump 'censorship' case go away
YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to end the case brought by US president Donald Trump, who alleged the vid-streamer had infringed his freedom of speech.…
Feds cut funding to program that shared cyber threat info with local governments
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday will cut its ties to - and funding for - the Center for Internet Security, a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost cybersecurity services to state and local governments.…
California cops confused after trying to give ticket to self-driving car
Police in a Silicon Valley suburb were flummoxed last weekend after pulling over a self-driving Waymo robo-taxi for making an illegal turn, then finding no driver they could issue with a ticket.…
Whitebridge AI created false and alarming reputation reports, complaint alleges
Whitebridge AI, based in Lithuania, faces a privacy complaint for allegedly selling "reputation reports" based on unlawfully collected data and AI misinformation.…