From Star Wars canon expansion to the conclusion of a university-set sitcom and Vince Gilligan's highly anticipated return to the small screen, here are our TV highlights from this year. Given how rare event television is in the streaming era, watercooler moments are far and few between. While Celebrity Traitors is a gripping exception to this rule, the field of other...
Even as OpenAI works to harden its Atlas AI browser against cyberattacks, the company admits that prompt injections, a type of attack that manipulates AI agents to follow malicious instructions often hidden in web pages or emails, is a risk that’s not going away anytime soon — raising questions about how safely AI agents can operate on the open web. ...
Waymo suspended its robotaxi service in San Francisco on Saturday evening after a massive blackout appeared to leave many of its vehicles stalled on city streets. Numerous photos and videos posted to social media captured Waymo robotaxis stalled at roads and intersections as human drivers were either stuck behind them or weaved around them. Waymo said on Saturday that it...
Law firms representing Google and Apple have warned that employees who need a visa stamp to re-enter the United States should avoid leaving the country due to longer-than-usual visa processing times, according to Business Insider. BI says it has viewed memos from BAL Immigration Law (which represents Google) and Fragomen (which represents Apple). “Given the recent updates and the possibility...
The difficulty of detecting AI-tool use in peer review is proving problematic.Credit: BrianAJackson/iStock via GettyIt’s almost impossible to know whether a peer-review report has been generated by artificial intelligence, according to a study that put AI-detecting tools to the test.A research team based in China used the Claude 2.0 large language model (LLM), created by Anthropic, an AI company in...
The US has seized an oil tanker that had recently departed from Venezuela, according to the US Department of Homeland Security.It is the second time this month that the US has seized an oil-carrying ship off the country's coast. The move comes after US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was ordering a "blockade" of sanctioned oil tankers...
Chesterfield County is one step closer to welcoming the skating and hockey community to a new ice hockey facility -- Richmond Ice Box -- with construction updates and plans for attracting a professional hockey team. Source link...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Growing up on television sound stages, David Henrie fell into what he calls the “bubblegum theory of pleasure.” “In my teen years, and my early 20s, I was just a successful child actor. I had built up a big following online and was just living for the world,” said the 36-year-old Henrie, who had roles on...
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has captured important new data on the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using its Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS). In July, 3I/ATLAS became the third officially confirmed interstellar object known to enter our solar system. The UVS instrument was able to observe the comet during a window when viewing from Mars and Earth was difficult or not...
In the damp shade beneath moss-covered trees, high in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or deep within the subtropical forests of Okinawa, an unusual organism quietly grows. At first glance, it resembles a mushroom. In reality, it is a plant called Balanophora, and it possesses some of the smallest flowers and seeds known in the plant world. Unlike...
