Solar car maker Aptera has “officially announced a repair network partnership which will give owners of its upcoming solar electric car access to thousands of repair shops nationwide,” reports Electrek:
We recently got a chance to drive the Aptera s…
Solar car maker Aptera has “officially announced a repair network partnership which will give owners of its upcoming solar electric car access to thousands of repair shops nationwide,” reports Electrek:
We recently got a chance to drive the Aptera s…
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:
Recalling his initial resistance to free and open software, billionaire computer scientist David Siegel argues vigorously in FORTUNE that the stakes are too high to let AI become increasingly closed. “In the 1…
CNBC reports:
The automotive industry’s increasing use of over-the-air technology to update vehicle systems makes it more susceptible to cyberattacks, analysts say, urging more intervention in the sector… Its use represents “a unique national secur…
A new study by researchers at the University of California at San Francisco “adds to growing research linking increased social media use to detrimental effects on attention, memory and cognition,” reports the Washington Post:
The study followed more t…
Elon Musk confirmed SpaceX has open sourced the Grok Build CLI this week, reports The Register, “just days after researchers caught the AI tool scooping up users’ entire repositories and uploading them to company-controlled cloud storage.”
That disco…
“OpenAI has finally confirmed reports that its latest family of large language models can accidentally delete files,” reports InfoWorld, “while stressing that such incidents are rare and should be viewed as ‘honest mistakes.'”
Reports of the flagshi…
France’s regulatory authority for licensed gambling/betting games “announced this week that it ordered ISPs to block access to Polymarket,” reports Engadget. Anyone caught advertising an unauthorized betting site “could be fined up to 100,000 euros, or…
This week Slashdot reader joshuark found the story of exactly how in 2025 ProPublica reporter Renee Dudley confirmed Microsoft was running tech support for the U.S. Defense Department through China, America’s biggest cybersecurity adversary — and…
Reuters reports:
Incoming British prime minister Andy Burnham will scrap the government’s troubled plans for a digital ID scheme when he enters office on Monday, a spokesperson for the new Labour Party leader said. Resources devoted to the scheme, de…