White House To Study Employer Tools That Monitor Workers

The Biden administration plans to study companies' use of technology to monitor and manage workers, which it said on Monday is becoming ...

'sudo' and 'su' Are Being Rewritten In Rust For Memory Safety

Phoronix reports: With the financial backing of Amazon Web Services, sudo and su are being rewritten in the Rust programming language in ord...

Google Has More Powerful AI, Says Engineer Fired Over Sentience Claims

Remember that Google engineer/AI ethicist who was fired last summer after claiming their LaMDA LLM had become sentient? In a new interview w...

Russian Forces Suffer Radiation Sickness After Digging Trenches and Fishing in Chernobyl

The Independent reports: Russian troops who dug trenches in Chernobyl forest during their occupation of the area have been struck down with ...

Chess has a New World Champion: China's Ding Liren

The Guardian reports: The Magnus Carlsen era is over. Ding Liren becomes China's first world chess champion. The country now can boast t...

Droids for Space? Startup Plans Satellites With Robotic Arms For Repairs and Collecting Space Junk

The Boston Globe reports on a 25-person startup pursuing an unusual solution to the problem of space junk: "Imagine if every car we eve...

Ben & Jerry's Cofounder Launches Nonprofit Cannabis Line

The "Ben" in Ben & Jerry's "has gone from ice cream to cannabis with a social mission," reports the Chicago Trib...