Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux…

A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant. 

Design matters more than ever in consumer AI, as long as you have money to play.

Sometimes the law is not the law

After 18 years of writing code every day, I stopped. Our team is shipping more, bug reports haven't increased, and I'm wondering what programming could become next.

The former Meta chief AI scientist shares his take on recent rogue AI incidents and effective altruism, as well as plans for his new company, AMI Labs.

American Airlines duplicate callsign incident highlights ATC communication risks and dispatch procedures for regional flights.

Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government’s model employee.

David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology

Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.

Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the …

Hidden fire extinguishers may look sleek, but OSHA and NFPA require clear identification and accessible placement, no matter how polished the design.

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those…

A new age, a new adventure - a new RuneScape MMO built with our players. Be part of the journey.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) today released the Ban Flock Act, legislation to put an end to the rise in AI-powered surveillance cameras that track Americans across…

In an easterly suburb of Mykolaiv, drinking water flowed from kitchen taps, as it has since last year thanks to a small off-grid solar field tucked inconspicuously into its midst. Paul Hockenos reports.

A proposed port of the Rust-based uutils coreutils reimplementation sparked heated debate on the OpenBSD mailing list, with project founder Theo de Raadt and senior developers rejecting it as unnecessary duplication that introduces behavioral incompatibilities…

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