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Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse

Enlarge / Tech decommissioning businesses have been transformed from what some describe as a collection of "man with a van" outfits into a regulated industry. (credit: Lorne Campbell, Guzelian, and SWEEEP Kuusakoski) Mick…

Boston Dynamics *really* does not want you to add weapons to its robots

Enlarge / Herbert Reul, Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, looks at Boston Dynamics' robot police dog in January 2022. (credit: Getty Images) Boston Dynamics and several other robotics companies have pledged not to…

2K warns users their info has been stolen following breach of its help desk

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Game company 2K on Thursday warned users to remain on the lookout for suspicious activity across their accounts following a breach last month that allowed a threat actor to…

Bruce Willis denies selling deepfake rights to Deepcake [Updated]

Enlarge / The real Bruce Willis at a film premiere in 2019. (credit: Getty Images) On Friday, Ars Technica reported that Bruce Willis had sold his likeness for use in deepfakes, according to…

Big data trove dumped after LA Unified School District says no to ransomware crooks

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A ransomware outfit calling itself Vice Society has dumped nearly 300,000 files belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District as punishment for rebuffing demands it pay the group…

Linux 6.0 arrives with support for newer chips, core fixes, and oddities

Enlarge / And there was much rejoicing, as a new Linux kernel version had arrived before its founder ran out of fingers and toes for counting. (credit: Getty Images) A stable version of…

Biden proposes new “Bill of Rights” to protect Americans from AI harms

Enlarge / The White House, Blue Sky, Red Trees, and Green Grass (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) Today, the White House proposed a "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights," a set…

Begone, polygons: 1993’s Virtua Fighter gets smoothed out by AI

Enlarge / "Sarah" from Virtua Fighter gets an AI makeover thanks to Stable Diffusion and a fan named Colin Williamson. (credit: Colin Williamson) In 1993, Sega's Virtual Fighter arcade game broke new ground…

Tesla shows off unfinished humanoid robot prototypes at AI Day 2022

Enlarge / The walking Optimus prototype demonstrated at the AI Day 2022 event. (credit: Tesla) Today at Tesla's "AI Day" event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled an early prototype of its Optimus humanoid…

Mystery hackers are “hyperjacking” targets for insidious spying

Enlarge (credit: Marco Rosario Venturini Autieri/Getty Images) For decades, virtualization software has offered a way to vastly multiply computers’ efficiency, hosting entire collections of computers as “virtual machines” on just one physical machine.…