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Florida joins a growing list of cities and states responding to the license plate reader backlash. Halbergman/Getty Images Florida's Department of Transportation has officially banned police from placing license plate readers on state roads, according to a one-page memorandum from DOT Chief Operating Officer Will Watts. The
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One of the most frequent criticisms of robots has long been that they have to be specifically programmed to do every task individually. Modern vision-language-action (VLA) models promise something different. Instead of using hard-coded behaviors, a VLA-powered robot understands natural language, processes camera feeds, and determines its own actions. But
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Banning superintelligent AI Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced legislation Thursday mandating a complete halt in superintelligent AI development, stipulating that the advancement of any system that can surpass human intelligence must permanently cease. The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act also temporarily pauses the development and deployment of advanced AI systems until
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CNET’s key takeaways * Ninja’s BlendBoss can pulverized ice into snow in under 15 seconds and makes perfect smoothies. * The BlendBoss comes in many colors and has a design unlike any other personal blender I’ve seen. * The blender retails for full price at $130, but is currently on
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed “arcade” games, some of which are racist — and modeled on real games whose copyright holders may not be too happy to be associated with the MAGA agenda. The Tetris Company has already responded to “Build the
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* Google released Chrome 152.0.7977.82/.83 for Windows, Mac, and Linux * Patch fixes 12 flaws, including zero‑day CVE‑2026‑85046 (type confusion in V8) * Sixth Chrome zero‑day this year; Chromium browsers also affected, update urged immediately Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser
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Microsoft moved for summary judgment in the New York AI copyright litigation on 4 September, arguing Copilot reproduced book passages 24 times in 8.2 million conversations. Two days earlier it began selling GPT-6 Astra through Foundry, a model OpenAI rates Critical for cybersecurity, and European law measures neither the
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Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s Wordle puzzle isn’t too terribly tough. It has two common vowels,
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Moving Large Language Models (LLMs) from experimental prototypes into enterprise production exposes a critical truth: your infrastructure dictates both your performance ceilings and your unit economics. Standard hardware benchmarks often ignore a fundamental reality—not all LLM requests stress the silicon in the same way. In this post, we dive
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An article from Dive Brief The consulting firm is launching an open model engineering practice intending to help enterprises find the right mix. Published Sept. 4, 2026 This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: * Deloitte is launching its Open Model Engineering practice, a
