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California lawmakers pretend to regulate AI, create a pile of paperwork

Tue, 2025-09-30 18:07
LLM makers have to file a steady stream of reports in the name of transparency

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.…

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Senators rail against Tesla AI's apparent inability to detect train crossings

Tue, 2025-09-30 16:54
Full Self-Driving mode could be on-track to cause serious accidents

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.…

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Warnings about Cisco vulns under active exploit are falling on deaf ears

Tue, 2025-09-30 16:09
50,000 firewall devices still exposed

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.…

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Pop! System76's 24.04 beta is here – complete with a beta of polarizing COSMIC

Tue, 2025-09-30 15:22
Twice the betas and twice the crashes means twice the fun, right?

It's September 2025 and the beta of the April 2024 release of Pop!_OS is here. It's fast, fluid – and fallible.…

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Logitech's MX Master 4 mouse buzzes with haptic feedback but lacks lefty love

Tue, 2025-09-30 14:38
Ergonomic, feature-packed, and still right-handed only

(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.…

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Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead? No, wait – it's on Windows

Tue, 2025-09-30 13:25
Rust-coded editor beta arrives with general availability promised in October

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.…

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ServiceNow thinks you're doing AI fast and wrong

Tue, 2025-09-30 13:01
And of course thinks it can help you do it right, once it gets around to delivering

Three weeks after releasing one of its biannual platform upgrades, ServiceNow has started delivering an "AI Experience."…

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NASA's deep-space laser comms demo has left the chat

Tue, 2025-09-30 12:12
DSOC hit record speeds beaming data from Psyche before going dark

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.…

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'Money-saving' UK procurement platform racks up monster tab

Tue, 2025-09-30 10:44
Projected £1.5M running costs balloon to £12M under new contracts

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.…

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Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide

Tue, 2025-09-30 10:01
Met's Croydon cameras hailed as a triumph, guidance to be published later this year

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.…

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£5.5B Bitcoin fraudster pleads guilty after years on the run

Tue, 2025-09-30 09:31
Zhimin Qian recruited takeaway worker to launder funds through property overseas

London's Metropolitan Police has secured a "landmark conviction" following a record-busting Bitcoin seizure and seven-year investigation.…

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UK splurges £4.4M on drones, e-planes, and other flights of fancy

Tue, 2025-09-30 08:55
Taxpayer cash fuels 14 projects from NHS blood-hauling UAVs to posh eVTOL shuttles

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.…

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Healthcare lags in Windows 11 upgrades – and lives may depend on it

Tue, 2025-09-30 08:27
Most orgs still on Windows 10, so maybe don't get ill after October 14

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.…

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Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers

Tue, 2025-09-30 07:45
Impact? Nope, don't worry, be happy, says Linux veteran

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.…

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AI upstart aims to do what mere mortals can't: Make sense of Microsoft licensing

Tue, 2025-09-30 07:00
Thankfully, Onyx's model also knows when to defer to a human for advice

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.…

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VMware bungles cloud management portal upgrade, twice in two weeks

Tue, 2025-09-30 05:29
Promises to get it right this coming weekend

VMware has bungled a portal upgrade project that aims to give its customers a superior experience when managing their clouds.…

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YouTube coughs up $24.5 million to make Trump 'censorship' case go away

Tue, 2025-09-30 02:51
Alphabet's vid-streamer will fund construction of a ballroom The Donald adores

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.…

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Feds cut funding to program that shared cyber threat info with local governments

Tue, 2025-09-30 00:16
The federal government's not the only thing shutting down on Oct. 1

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.…

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California cops confused after trying to give ticket to self-driving car

Mon, 2025-09-29 23:57
Don't tell Elon, he'd have Tesla's Robotaxis going ludicrous speed

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.…

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Whitebridge AI created false and alarming reputation reports, complaint alleges

Mon, 2025-09-29 23:22
Privacy group Noyb wants Lithuania to throw the GDPR book at 'em

Whitebridge AI, based in Lithuania, faces a privacy complaint for allegedly selling "reputation reports" based on unlawfully collected data and AI misinformation.…

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