The person who allegedly leaked the new Avatar movie has been arrested
The Straits Times reports Singaporean police have arrested a 26-year-old man who is alleged to have uploaded the new Avatar movie (previously titled The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender) online after accessing a server where the project was being held ahead of its scheduled October 9th premiere on Paramount Plus. According to the authorities, […]
Microsoft will let you pause Windows Updates indefinitely, 35 days at a time
Windows users will no longer be forced to run automatic updates in the middle of a game or a busy day. Microsoft is rolling out some long-awaited changes to Windows Update to users on its Dev and Experimental Windows Insider channels, including the ability to indefinitely delay updates up to 35 days at a time. […]
Inside Mirakl's agentic commerce vision
Mirakl is redefining commerce through AI agents and ChatGPT Enterprise—achieving faster documentation, smarter customer support, and building toward agent-native commerce with Mirakl Nexus. Source link
Announcing the initial People-First AI Fund grantees
The OpenAI Foundation announces the initial recipients of the People-First AI Fund, awarding $40.5M in unrestricted grants to 208 nonprofits supporting community innovation and opportunity. Source link
Alex Jones has uncovered another massive conspiracy
Alex Jones may soon lose Infowars, the digital perch that he’s used for decades to traffic in conspiracy theories, to The Onion, the satirical newspaper. But not before he’s uncovered something truly dastardly: comedian Tim Heidecker’s past (publicly available) work. “The Onion newspaper has been rocked by the discovery that their new creative director, produced […]
OpenAI to acquire Neptune
OpenAI is acquiring Neptune to deepen visibility into model behavior and strengthen the tools researchers use to track experiments and monitor training. Source link
IDBI Bank disinvestment process to continue: FM Nirmala Sitharaman | Finance News
The disinvestment process for Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) and government-backed IDBI Bank will continue, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday, amid reports that the Centre had scrapped the proposed stake sale after bids fell short of the reserve price. The bank’s shares jumped as much as 8 per cent […]
How confessions can keep language models honest
OpenAI researchers are testing “confessions,” a method that trains models to admit when they make mistakes or act undesirably, helping improve AI honesty, transparency, and trust in model outputs. Source link
Yong Wang Turns Visualization Into Insights
When Yong Wang recently received one of the highest honors for early-career data visualization researchers, it marked a milestone in an extraordinary journey that began far from the world’s technology hubs. Wang was born in a small farming village in southwestern China to parents with little formal education and few electronic devices. Today the IEEE […]
BMW is one step closer to selling you a color-changing car
BMW’s previous concepts wrapped the entire vehicle in a patchwork of E Ink panels that were all custom-sized and shaped to match its contours. It was an approach that wasn’t practical for mass production, and one that wasn’t very durable. The new BMW iX3 Flow Edition is potentially the most exciting of all of BMW’s […]