Voyager 1 starts talking rubbish
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Can’t be fixed for a while

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.

General Motors culls nine executives in robotaxi safety investigation
Published in Transportation


Chief Operating Officer among them

General Motors' Cruise robotaxi unit dismissed nine executives amid an ongoing safety investigation, which the company confirmed included Chief Operating Officer Gil West.

Boffins turn human brains into computers
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Created their own AI

In what is typical for mad scientists allowed to hang around human brain cells for too long, a team of boffins has hooked some up to an electronic chip and enabled them to carry out some basic computing.

Broadcom kills off perpetual licenses
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“Encouraging” customers to subscriptions

Broadcom appears to be doing its best to make like hell for VMware customers by killing off VMware's on-premises perpetual licenses.

Ukraine’s mobile network hit by biggest hack yet
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Russians cut mobile and internet services

Ukraine's biggest mobile network was hit by "what appeared to be the largest cyber attack of the war with Russia so far," severing mobile and internet services for millions of people and knocking out the air raid alert system in parts of Kyiv.

Cloud engineer jailed for wiping code repositories
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Retaliation for p*rn firing

Cloud engineer Miklos Daniel Brody has been jailed for two years and ordered to pay $529,000 for wiping the code repositories of his former employer.

Microsoft wants to become a nuclear power
Published in AI


Blue screen of death could take out a state

Software King of the World,  Microsoft, wants to build its own nuclear power stations to power its artificial intelligence operations.

US government prepared to make some concessions to Nvidia
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Better than playing wack-a-mole

The US government says it is prepared to make some concessions to Nvidia over the sale of AI accelerates to China, rather than having to play a game of wack-a-mole with the chipmaker.

Sports Illustrated CEO fired.
Published in News


Who would have thought replacing hacks with AI was a bad move?

The publisher of Sports Illustrated has ousted its chief executive officer following public backlash over the sports magazine's alleged use of AI to write stories.

AI is being used on Robocalls.
Published in AI


US political scene really is awful

An artificial intelligence campaign volunteer named Ashley is being used to call thousands of Pennsylvania voters on behalf of Democrat Shamaine Daniels.