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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1246, establishing local penalties for robotaxi companies if their vehicles block first responders.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 3 min read
A former OpenAI safety lead warns that the rapid development of frontier AI models lacks necessary redundancy, comparing the technology's risks to nuclear power plants.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 3 min read
More than 25 years after its launch, developers have successfully dumped the firmware of the original PlayStation 2 SPC970 MechaCon security chip.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 4 min read
Capcom is embracing AI to enhance the efficiency of its game development process, specifically for streamlining workflows rather than generating in-game content. The company's RE Engine will undergo a major improvement project called REX, aiming to become a "game engine of the AI generation."
BYTERMINAL Desk · 1 min read
An engineering sample of the canceled AMD Ryzen 9 5900X3D has surfaced, revealing a 12-core Zen 3 design with 128MB of L3 cache.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 3 min read
Amazon has announced a $1 billion community investment program for areas near its data centers, though critics note the sum represents a tiny fraction of its overall AI infrastructure spending.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 3 min read
The California Department of Justice has issued a subpoena to OpenAI amid an ongoing investigation into cybersecurity incidents and rogue AI agents.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 3 min read
A $5,245 prebuilt desktop featuring an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 suffered a catastrophic power connector failure after sitting unused in its box for over a year, leaving the owner caught between conflicting vendor warranties.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 5 min read
Google has suspended product vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program due to a surge of invalid AI-driven reports.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 2 min read