Boston Dynamics’ latest video of its six-foot-tall bipedal humanoid, Atlas, shows it has acquired new skills that enable it to operate in complex terrain. Boston Dynamics’ Atlas team, led by Scott Kuindersma, told The Verge that the video is “meant to communicate an expansion of the research we’re doing on Atlas.” The video shows Atlas operating autonomously, […]
Another story about low accuracy from the privacy-invasive tech.
Security researcher Matt Kunze revealed a serious vulnerability in Google smart home speakers that could’ve enabled threat actors to gain remote access over the devices. Kunze was experimenting with his own Google Home speaker in early 2021 when he found a hacker could install a ‘backdoor’ account on the device over the web. He detailed […]
Guidelines in building and controlling the next wave of technology.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk posted a poll on Sunday asking whether he should step down as the head of Twitter and said he’ll “abide by the results.” “Yes” is leading 56.6% to 43.3% as of 2AM EST. I voted no because even though he’s a mixed bag and his decisions are all over the place […]
Is Elon Musk using his powerful Twitter account to bully Big Tech tyrants into supporting Free Speech? Earlier this month, Musk warned activist groups and advertisers that he may use his new bully pulpit to launch a “thermonuclear name & shame” if they work to try and destroy free speech in America. On Monday, Musk went […]
Major tax filing services, including H&R Block, TaxAct and TaxSlayer, have been covertly sending Facebook sensitive financial information when Americans file their taxes online, according to The Markup. The data includes names, email addresses, income, filing status, refund amounts and college scholarship information – which is sent to Facebook regardless of whether a person even has a Facebook account – […]
"All of that data that your child is inputting and receiving is being stored somewhere in Beijing."
It only took 40 hours for CBS News to realize what absolute morons they’d been to stop posting on Twitter over “security concerns” with the platform. “After pausing for much of the weekend to assess the security concerns, CBS News and Stations is resuming its activity on Twitter as we continue to monitor the situation,” the news organization’s communications team […]
Amid reports that Twitter’s mass-layoffs will ‘break’ the platform, allowing ‘free speech types’ to run amok, CBS Newshas stopped posting on the social media giant out of an “abundance of caution.” In a Friday announcement during the evening broadcast of “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell,” the network’s national correspondent, Jonathan Gigliotti, said: “In light of the uncertainty […]
