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You can build your own robot CHILD for under $1,000

Before humanoid robots walk among us, they'll be operated remotely, in part to gather the training data to develop Vision-Language-Action Models for autonomous, nonlethal bipedal ambulation.…

Blue Origin and Amazon's Kuiper satellite program are an arm's length apart

In the beginning there was Jeff Bezos. He created Amazon in 1994 and became filthy rich in the decades that followed, reaching a net worth exceeding $241 billion in 2025.…

These are the conference events to keep an eye on. You can even stream a few

The security industry is hitting Vegas hard this week with three conferences in Sin City that bring the world's largest collection of security pros together for the annual summer camp.…

Developer community skeptical following 'long silent stagnation' of the framework and accompanying SDK

Microsoft lead software engineer Beth Pan has stated that WinUI, the modern user interface framework for Windows, will be made "truly open source," though no date is yet set because of deep entanglements with proprietary code in the operating system.…

Launch license issued for suborbital Skylark L

The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has granted British rocketeer Skyrora a launch operator license.…

'Hyper-masculine' first-person shooter fandoms are prime targets

Updated  Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University have sounded the alarm on "gaming-adjacent platforms" including Discord, Twitch, and Steam being used as "digital playgrounds" to funnel new recruits into far-right and other extremist ideologies – with a focus on those showing interest in "hyper-masculine gaming titles."…

Bot built by Airbus and IBM recognized astronaut’s voice and issued instructions to camera drone

Japanese space agency JAXA and Germany’s DLR have conducted what they say is the first collaboration between independently developed robots on the International Space Station.…

Using the Apollo vehicles that already offer autonomous rides across China

Rideshare challenger Lyft and China’s Baidu plan to bring robo-cabs to the UK and Europe next year.…

Cites low demand and overcapacity for electric cars on the same day Tesla gives Elon Musk $29 billion for similar reasons

Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant Foxconn has sold its US electric vehicle factory and will use the land to make AI servers instead.…

On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries

Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday.…

Bypassing MFA and deploying ransomware…sounds like something that rhymes with 'schmero-day'

SonicWall on Monday confirmed that it's investigating a rash of ransomware activity targeting its firewall devices, following multiple reports of a zero-day bug under active exploit in its VPNs.…

Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders

Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites' no-crawl directives.…

One new military branch per term would have to be some sort of record

The US Space Force won't be the only new military branch Donald Trump has created if forthcoming recommendations from a group of retired military and civilian leadership end up being adopted. They want the President to form a US "Cyber Force" too. …

Fermi America will also have 4GW of gas generators for the Amarillo 'HyperGrid'

Nuclear power is enjoying something of a second renaissance in the US as hyperscalers grapple with AI's seemingly insatiable appetite for power.…

PXA Stealer pilfers data from nearly 40 browsers, including Chrome

More than 4,000 victims across 62 countries have been infected by stealthy infostealers pilfering people's passwords, credit card numbers, and browser cookies, which are then sold to other criminals on Telegram-based marketplaces.…

If it’s not on-prem, it’s on the menu

Opinion  The details of cloud data regionalization are rarely the stuff of great drama. When they’ve reached the level of an exec admitting to the Senate that a foreign power can help itself to that nation's data, no matter where it lives, things get interesting.…

Kludge causing production outages

Oracle has come under fire for failing to fix a known issue with Windows instances on its cloud infrastructure (OCI).…

Let US and China compete in the AI development arms race, says former Brit PM's non-profit org

Britain should not try to compete with America and China in the race to build cutting-edge AI models and focus instead on widespread AI adoption, but even this will require a boost local compute capacity.…

The payroll growth we thought we experienced in May and June? Gone, like tears in the rain

The US IT jobs market hasn't exactly been robust thus far in 2025, and downward revisions to May and June's Bureau of Labor Statistics data mean IT jobs lost in July are part of an even deeper sector slowdown than previously believed.…

Instrument works fine. Now, about those transistors

NASA's Europa Clipper probe checked out its radar as the spacecraft hurtled past Mars on the way to Jupiter's moon Europa.…