Updated SpaceX is preparing to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in more than 18 months, kicking off what could be a busy time for the vehicle. The mission will loft the ViaSat-3 F3 communications satellite into geostationary orbit. Liftoff is scheduled during an 85-minute window opening at 1421 UTC today, with…
Google is trying out an AI Mode-like search experience for YouTube. The company is now testing “a new way to search on YouTube that feels more like a conversation,” with results pulling in things like longform videos, YouTube Shorts, and text about what you’re searching for. The “experiment” is now available if you’re a YouTube…
Software security testing outfit Checkmarx has become the latest organization caught up in an ongoing attack on security-tool providers. The biz said data posted online appears to have come from one of its GitHub repositories after the Lapsus$ extortion crew claimed to have dumped the company’s source code, secrets, and other sensitive data. In a…
While AI agents have moved from experimental tools to customer-facing workers in a matter of months, the next challenge is governance and reliability once those agents touch real money, real shoppers, and real creative output. That’s according to executives from Citi, Home Depot, and Capcom, who wspoke to media during a panel at Google Cloud…
It’s been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead – sort of – with the hope he can give exhausted users of modern platforms a reprieve. Philadelphia-based computer programmer Mike Carson said in a blog post on Monday that he…
South Africa has pulled its draft national AI policy after discovering that it was citing sources that exist only in the fertile imagination of a chatbot. The country’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies confirmed over the weekend that the draft, which had already cleared Cabinet and was out for public comment, included “various fictitious…
Digital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers – utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic – according to filings with federal regulators. Itron, in a late Friday US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, said it was notified about the unauthorized third-party break-in on April 13. The $4 billion company that provides smart…
Jer (Jeremy) Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused by the company’s AI coding agent in less than 10 seconds. Not one to let a crisis go to waste, Crane wrote up a post-mortem of the deletion incident in a social media post that…
Core Scientific is trading coins for tokens, revealing plans on Monday to convert a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining operation in Pecos, Texas, to an 1.5 gigawatt AI datacenter campus. Core Scientific is one of several companies racing to switch from crypto mining to token farming before the bubble bursts, and recently announced plans to sell $3.3…
One of the most popular Linux distributions is about to get an influx of AI features. As reported by Phoronix, Jon Seager, VP of engineering at Ubuntu developer Canonical, shared a blog post on Monday detailing plans to add AI features to the Linux distro over the next year. As the post states, the AI…