Forward-looking: Researchers have developed a prototype device that converts infrared light into full-color images, offering a different approach to night vision that goes beyond the usual monochrome displays. The system, built by a team at the Beijing Institute of Technology, uses mercury telluride quantum dots paired with a dual-layer OLED. Instead of translating infrared into a single color based on brightness, the device maps different wavelengths and intensities

Cutting corners: New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued prediction market platform Kalshi, alleging that it violates state gambling laws. The lawsuit, filed in the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, claims the company runs an "illegal, unlicensed gambling operation" covering sports, culture, elections, and other events.

In a statement, James said Kalshi violates New York's anti-gambling laws, which are designed to

In brief: The controversy surrounding Flock cameras primarily centers on privacy and fears of a surveillance state. However, the cloud-based license-plate-reading system's accuracy and effectiveness have also drawn scrutiny. In one particularly egregious case, an internal review uncovered more than 1,000 false positives over two years.

Police in Roseville, California, found that, out of 1,427 incidents

The big picture: Putting your writing on the open web used to mean people could read it. Now, it also means dozens of crawlers can copy it into training datasets. Sure, anti-scraping tools such as robots.txt exist, but they only work if the bots themselves agree to stay away, which doesn't always happen. Stricter measures were clearly needed, and now they have arrived in an innovative

Does It matter?: Intel is providing a startup with significant access to its chip design schematics as part of a rare licensing deal involving the x86 instruction set architecture. RosaicLabs could now theoretically build its own x86 CPU, although speculation points to more cutting-edge applications such as robotics and AI.

Reuters sources claim that Intel is entering into a secret agreement with RosaicLabs Inc., a company incorporated in

What just happened? X has ended a high-profile dispute with the World Federation of Advertisers, closing a legal fight that had become a proxy for broader tensions between the platform and the advertising industry. The company, owned by Elon Musk, confirmed that both sides had agreed to resolve the case and move forward.

In a joint statement, X Corp. and the WFA said they were "putting the litigation . .

A hot potato: Since PC gaming went pretty much fully digital many years ago, some console gamers have bragged about their machines' ability to play physical discs and the advantages that brings. But a new report illustrates how just because a game is on a disc, it doesn't guarantee you won't need an internet connection to play it.

From Sony's decision to end production of discs for new PlayStation

In a nutshell: Amazon's growing use of AI across its operations is starting to expose a practical problem: the technology can become expensive quickly, and in some cases, no one notices until the bill is already high. Internal discussions reviewed by the Financial Times show that several AI-driven projects at the company have run over budget, sometimes by a wide margin.

In one case, Amazon spent $1.

Facepalm: PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the world's four largest accounting firms alongside EY, KPMG, and Deloitte, has landed in hot water after it was found to have published at least four reports riddled with AI hallucinations, fabricated citations, and fake footnotes. The reports were issued by PwC Middle East between 2024 and 2026 and were flagged as AI-generated by GPTZero, an AI detector