Feds ask Waymo about robotaxis repeatedly passing school buses in Austin
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has asked Waymo for more information about its self-driving system and operations following reports from the Austin School District that its robotaxis illegally passed…
SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers – Krebs on Security
China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in time for the holiday shopping…
iam8bit is suing Skybound Game Studios alleging fraud and theft of designs
Skybound Game Studios is being sued by indie outfit iam8bit on charges including fraud and breach of contract, including the theft of original designs. Skybound Entertainment, the parent company of…
Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’ Is Stressing Your Pets Out. What Other Holiday Songs Made the Cut?
Do you think Spotify releases Wrapped for listeners in early December so that Christmas music doesn’t inadvertently make its way into your annual roundup? At this point, Christmas tunes are…
Apple announces even more major executive turnover
Jackson, technically “vice president for Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives,” will retire in “late January 2026,” Apple says. Newstead, who is currently Meta’s chief legal officer, will take over Apple’s…
Congress warned that NASA’s current plan for Artemis “cannot work”
As for what to do about it, Griffin said legislators should end the present plan. “The Artemis III mission and those beyond should be canceled and we should start over,…
Cloudflare Has Blocked 416 Billion AI Bot Requests Since July 1
As the large language models powering generative AI tools slurp up ever more data across the web, Cloudflare cofounder and CEO Matthew Prince said at WIRED’s Big Interview event in…
Micro1, a Scale AI competitor, touts crossing $100M ARR
Micro1’s rapid climb over the past two years has pushed it into a cohort of AI companies scaling at breakneck speed. The three-year-old startup, which helps AI labs recruit and…
Liquid Swords’ debut title is a $25 ‘noir action game’ coming next year
The debut game from Liquid Swords will arrive in early 2026, it was announced at today’s PC Gaming Show. Samson: A Tyndalston Story is billed as “a consequence-heavy noir action…
AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements
“One conversation with an LLM has a pretty meaningful effect on salient election choices,” says Gordon Pennycook, a psychologist at Cornell University who worked on the Nature study. LLMs can…
















