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Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend (arstechnica.com)

Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend::US police departments continue to use the tech despite low accuracy and obvious mismatches.

Chip companies join forces to form new RISC-V venture (www.theregister.com)

Initial drive starts in Germany, pushes automotive blueprints

Waymo is bringing its robotaxi service to Austin (techcrunch.com)

Waymo is bringing its robotaxi service to Austin

‘Incredibly suspicious’: A union is accusing Google of violating labor law by retaliating against workers for organizing (fortune.com)

‘Incredibly suspicious’: A union is accusing Google of violating labor law by retaliating against workers for organizing::More than 70% of a proposed bargaining unit were told in July that they will lose their jobs, say organizers.

Chatgpt-5 is coming. But... (www.timesnownews.com)

I swear to god and everything there is that the company said there won’t be any new version anytime soon....

Ethernet Consortium Shoots For 1 Million Node Clusters That Beat InfiniBand (www.nextplatform.com)

Here we go again. Some big hyperscalers and cloud builders and their ASIC and switch suppliers are unhappy about Ethernet, and rather than wait...

Meta releases AudioCraft AI tool to create music from text (www.reuters.com)

National Lab (LBNL) results support LK-99 as a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor (arxiv.org)

National Lab (LBNL) results support LK-99 as a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor::A recent report of room temperature superconductivity at ambient pressure in Cu-substituted apatite (`LK99’) has invigorated interest in the understanding of what materials and mechanisms can allow for high-temperature...

Hackers exploit BleedingPipe RCE to target Minecraft servers, players (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Hackers are actively exploiting a 'BleedingPipe' remote code execution vulnerability in Minecraft mods to run malicious commands on servers and clients, allowing them to take control of the devices.

Gen-2 as of July 23: AI converted image to video (twitter.com)

European satellite plunges back to Earth in first-of-its-kind assisted re-entry (arstechnica.com)

ElevenLabs’ first Indian partnership banks on AI voice clones to make audio stories faster and cheaper. (restofworld.org)

Alleged AMD Strix Halo APU Appears in Benchmark (videocardz.com)

HP is apparently testing these upcoming APUs in a single, 8-core configuration....

A neurological disease stole Rep. Jennifer Wexton's voice. AI helped her get it back. (www.npr.org)

Why Mexico’s delivery workers are ditching food for packages. (restofworld.org)

Two Threads, One Core: How Simultaneous Multithreading Works Under the Hood (blog.codingconfessions.com)

Chinese Hackers Target Taiwan and US NGO with MgBot Malware (thehackernews.com)

Archived link...

Google scraps plans to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome (www.campaignlive.com)

In a blog post released on Monday, VP of Privacy Sandbox Anthony Chavez said that Google is “proposing an updated approach that elevates user choice” by allowing users to select whether or not they want to enable cookies on Chrome and adjust that choice “at any time.”...

Boeing and NASA engineers have wrapped up ground tests on the Starliner thruster (www.engadget.com)

Doing unit test generation better with LLMs and mutation testing (github.com)

Deutsche Telekom and their interpretation of their security obligations when beeing a public CA (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

looks like:...

IdentifyMobile incident exposed 200M records from hundreds of companies (stackdiary.com)

British bulk SMS provider IdentifyMobile exposed 200M records because a developer misconfigured an AWS S3 bucket and made it public. A research group from Germany spotted the issue and were able to access more than six terabytes of data. The said data included not only SMS message content but also phone numbers, sender names,...

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