A Pothole in Austin Puts Tesla’s Camera-Only Robotaxi Under Scrutiny
The obstacle was a large pothole filled with water. Tesla’s Cybercab was moving at about 5 miles an hour when it hit, and the vehicle was damaged. A safety monitor…
Intel Asks the FCC for Permission to Keep Its Factory Robots Running
The machine is a cart on wheels, and its job is to carry a sealed pod of silicon wafers from one tool to the next without a human hand touching…
Qualcomm Sends Its Cuts Through the Annual Review
The memo does not use the word layoffs. It describes a company reorganizing around performance and tightening costs, and it says notifications will begin in November, which is when Qualcomm…
Microsoft Treats Its Own AI Agents as Insider Threats
An agent that can read a manager’s inbox, query the billing system and start a payment has the reach of the employee who authorized it. Microsoft said on the evening…
Nvidia Simulates a Quantum Computer Too Large to Build
The machine hall at Forschungszentrum Jülich, west of Cologne, holds Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, a system called JUPITER built around 5,884 nodes of Nvidia’s Grace Hopper superchips. On October 19…
A Security Update That Stops the Mail
The first reports came from administrators who had done what they were told to do. They installed the October security updates for Windows Server on October 13, the monthly patch…
The PlayStation 6 Has a Memory Bill Before It Has a Price
Two components, more than $680, on a machine that Sony has not announced. That is the claim KeplerL2, a hardware leaker with a long record on console specifications, posted to…
A Retired System at OpenCode Leaves Model Keys Exposed
The email arrived on the morning of October 17 with a subject line that left little room for interpretation: “Action Required: Potential provider key breach.” OpenCode told a subset of…
A Stolen Key, 173 Microsoft Tenants, and a Backup Service Switched Off
The sign-ins came from a single hosting address, 144.172.64.128, and moved through customer tenants in the order their identifiers sort, seconds apart. No password was typed. No multifactor prompt appeared.…
JPMorgan’s Defense Fund Is Moving Faster Than Its Own Timetable
The factory floor in Southern California runs about ten robots for every person on it, by its founder’s account, machining parts for aircraft, ships and weapons. Hadrian, the company that…
