The cameras are coming down in Florida. Partially. On Monday, the Florida Department of Transportation officially revoked permission for law enforcement agencies to operate automated license plate readers on state highway rights-of-way. Police agencies have 30 days to remove them. The order represents one of the broadest government actions yet against the increasingly controversial technology….
For anyone who remembers printing MapQuest directions before a road trip, the navigation service may feel like something that belongs in the glove compartment of internet history. Apparently, all it took for a comeback was President Donald Trump starting yet another dispute over what to call a body of water. Lake Ontario, which sits between…
OpenAI confirmed on Tuesday that its unreleased Astra model has reached a dangerous new milestone, while simultaneously confirming that it was forging ahead with a public launch. In a blog post, OpenAI said that Astra has reached a “critical” cyber capability threshold, which means the model could pose existential-level risks to cybersecurity. OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework…
Sonos is back. After taking some time to recover from a rough app rollout in 2024, the audio brand made a comeback in April 2026 with the Sonos Play portable speaker. Now, on Sept. 1, Sonos unveiled two new products in the home theater and personal listening categories. Now available for preorder are the Sonos…
Do you understand quantum parallel repetition? What about quantum complexity, lattice cryptography, or extremal combinatorics? The new OpenAI model Astra knows all about them. On Aug. 1, OpenAI confirmed the existence of Astra, calling it “our next major model.” And on Sept. 1, OpenAI confirmed in a blog post that Astra has reached a “critical”…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and a more restricted sibling, Claude Mythos 5.1, this week, positioning the pair as its most capable models yet for coding and knowledge work. Notably, the announcement arrives just weeks after fresh reports of AI agents behaving badly in security tests. The two models are technically identical, Anthropic says in…
If you’ve spent any time on gaming social media this week, you’ll see a lot of comparison screenshots of video games. The most common ones you’ll see are split-screen comparisons between an OG shot of the game and one that’s slightly more detailed, with a promise that this will be the “future” of gaming. This…
As the new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope heads for deep space, the public can follow its three‑month trip in near-real time with NASA‘s online tracker. The spacecraft launched on Sunday, Aug. 30, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. It’s now cruising on its own toward its final orbit about 1…
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