Author: Zach_Wilson
Federal regulator to ban all Chinese labs from vetting US-bound devices over national security concerns – major supply chain shakeup will affect 75 percent of devices sold in the US
FCC votes to ban Chinese and Hong Kong testing labs 75% of US-bound devices are tested in China The ban could seriously shake up the US electronics supply chain The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted in favor of banning Chinese labs from certifying devices bound for the US. Any…
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Forget stealing our jobs — robots are now coming for the most human pastime: causing havoc on public transport
Bebop the robot tried to get on a Southwest flight He had a seat and a ticket, but bumped up against the airline’s baggage rules The flight did eventually take off, but arrived an hour later than planned Bored with threatening jobs, art, and marathon records, robots have turned their…
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Alexa+ is now available on a bunch of Bose speakers
This is the upgraded smart assistant's debut on a non-Amazon device. Source
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‘Phishing campaigns continue to improve sophistication and refinement’: Microsoft flags major ‘sophisticated’ phishing campaign targeting 35,000 users across 26 countries
Microsoft says a large phishing wave targeted over 35,000 users across 13,000 companies, mostly in the US Polished enterprise‑style emails with urgent prompts were used to bypass security checks Victims were funneled through PDFs and CAPTCHAs to harvest Microsoft credentials in real time Microsoft has warned about a large-scale phishing…
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OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less
OpenAI’s newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has “significant improvements in factuality across the board.” The company claims that, based on “internal evaluations,” GPT-5.5 Instant produced “52.5%…
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Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying
Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company “engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history” when training its Llama AI models, as reported earlier by The New York Times. In their suit,…
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