AI has read everything on the internet, now it's watching how we live to train robots

In the textile city of Karur, Naveen Kumar begins his day not by writing code, but by performing hundreds of precise hand movements to fold towels.
SBCNews

Reeves’ tax culling might spare horse’s head

UK horseracing might have dodged the gambling tax hike bullet expected to be fired by Rachel Reeves with the 2026 UK Budget ...
GitHub

OpenZL: A Novel Data Compression Framework

OpenZL delivers high compression ratios while preserving high speed, a level of performance that is out of reach for generic compressors. Check out the blog post and whitepaper for a breakdown of how ...
CNET

A New Bill Aims to Ban Both Adult Content Online and VPN Use. Could It Work?

On Sept. 11, Michigan representatives proposed an internet content ban bill unlike any of the others we've seen: This particularly far-reaching legislation would ban not only many types of online ...
WPRI 12

Ortho RI patients invited to join $2.9 million settlement after data breach

WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — Ortho Rhode Island has reached a $2.9 million class action settlement with patients whose information was compromised in a cyberattack last year. Target 12 reported back in ...
Futurism

Lawyer Gets Caught Using AI in Court, Responds in the Worst Possible Way

What is it with lawyers and AI? We don’t know, but it feels like an inordinate number of them keep screwing up with AI tools, apparently never learning from their colleagues who get publicly crucified ...
Wall Street Journal

BlackRock’s AI Consortium to Buy Aligned Data Centers in $20 Billion Deal

BlackRock’s BLK-0.58%decrease; red down pointing triangle new artificial-intelligence infrastructure consortium has struck its first deal, agreeing to acquire Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie Asset ...
TechCrunch

Cyber giant F5 Networks says government hackers had ‘long-term’ access to its systems, stole code and customer data

Cybersecurity firm F5 Networks says government-backed hackers had “long-term, persistent access” to its network, which allowed them to steal the company’s source code and customer information. In a ...
Wall Street Journal

A Giant New AI Data Center Is Coming to the Epicenter of America’s Fracking Boom

An Nvidia NVDA-3.96%decrease; red down pointing triangle-backed AI startup is planning to build a massive data-center complex with CoreWeave CRWV-8.37%decrease; red down pointing triangle that is ...
Gizmodo

The Electric Bill Is Too Damn High, and Both Sides Agree: It’s the Local Data Center’s Fault

The data center industry is exploding, and server farms are popping up all over the world. As you might’ve guessed, much of the industry’s boom is built around the blossoming generative AI industry, ...
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Apple Martin poses with a python in new campaign for Self-Portrait

Apple Martin posed with a white python for Self-Portrait’s Resort 2026 campaign, shot by photographer Ryan McGinley at an upstate New York apple orchard. An apple and a snake tempt visitors to a lush ...