How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance
On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that his own company had successfully...
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Framework 16 Gen1 Seeing Coreboot + AMD openSIL Port, Framework 13 AMD Gen1 To Follow
Work is underway by 9elements on porting Coreboot plus AMD openSIL to the first-generation Ryzen 7000 series Framework 16 laptop and is expected to be followed...
Read moreApple’s Budget iPhone 17e Gets a MagSafe Upgrade
Building on the iPhone 16e from 2025, Apple’s latest iPhone has a few noteworthy upgrades with the same $599 price.
Read moreSecurity updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (lxd, orthanc, and thunderbird), Fedora (cef, chromium, gimp, nextcloud, pgadmin4, python-django4.2, python-django5, python3-docs, python3.12, python3.13, and python3.9), Oracle (container-tools:rhel8...
Read moreApple announces the iPhone 17E
Apple has taken the wraps off the iPhone 17E, its latest entry-level smartphone. The iPhone 17E starts at $599 with a higher 256GB of storage, and...
Read moreHow Electrical Engineers Fight a War
Every time Russia attacks Ukraine’s power infrastructure, Ukrainian engineers risk their lives in the scramble to get electricity flowing again. It’s a dangerous job at best,...
Read moreIt’s almost a station wagon: The 2026 Subaru Trailseeker, driven
A new pair of EV siblings joins the Subaru lineup this year, each using a shared skateboard chassis developed in partnership with Toyota. Compared to the...
Read moreApple launches a new iPad Air with an upgraded M4 processor
After updating its mid-level tablets last year, Apple has announced a new version of the iPad Air today now powered by the company’s M4 processor. That’s...
Read morePico’s Project Swan XR Headset Wants to Go Where the Apple Vision Pro Failed
The ByteDance company wants to make the case that XR is “not just for gaming” anymore by giving you a digital office.
Read moreAutomate Python Data Analysis With YData Profiling
The YData Profiling package generates an exploratory data analysis (EDA) report with a few lines of code. The report provides dataset and column-level analysis, including plots...
Read moreFormer NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding
A former NASA administrator says he is “encouraged” that the US Congress is considering legislation to prevent NASA from spending more than 50 percent of its...
Read moreThe Download: protesting AI, and what’s floating in space
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. I checked out one...
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