FreeBSD is now available for the desktop, in a roundabout way. Colin Percival, a maintainer and release engineering lead for the open-source OS’s release, announced the desktop distro on Thursday. “Most people think of FreeBSD...
Google has augmented its live dialogue model Gemini 3.8 Live with a feature called “Live Avatar” that’s capable of conjuring animated characters and realistic human simulacra to lip-sync Gemini’s...
A crook has been using three open source AI harnesses to target hundreds of online retailers and other companies, swiping more than 600,000 credit card records and installing card-stealing skimmers – and all at trivial...
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Island Inc., a startup with a browser optimized for the enterprise market, today announced that it has raised $400 million in funding. Evolution Equity Partners led the Series F round. It was joined by J.P. Morgan, Sequoia...
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In the past month, Waymo has expanded its fleet in Texas by 49%. There are other hotspots as well.
[Jude Robinson]’s robot Daisy has an unusual function: making a literal chain of daisies. The device is his student final project and demonstrates how a system can replace sensing with clever mechanical constraints. Instead of...
No more Beavis and Butt-Head in your matches.
Google will loft its tensor processing units (TPUs) into orbit aboard a SpaceX rocket next week, in the latest phase of its previously announced Project Suncatcher space datacenter initiative. The launch is part of a test...
Undeterred by a looming Google policy change that could effectively destroy it, open-source Android app store F-Droid has released its largest upgrade in a decade. F-Droid, a third-party app repository that only distributes free...
In a market where AI agents keep breaking the rules and escaping their containers, Docker has a new solution. On Thursday, the company debuted Cloud Sandboxes in a bid to keep AI agents within boundaries. Despite the existence...
