What just happened? The challenge for autonomous vehicles has never been ordinary driving – it's the edge cases. Temporary roadwork, shifting lane lines and irregular signage can still confuse even sophisticated systems. A recent recall by Waymo shows how those gaps can surface in real-world deployments.

Waymo is recalling nearly 3,900 robotaxis following incidents in freeway construction areas. According to a safety recall report filed with the

In brief: Prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi are primarily known as places where ordinary people bet on sports, elections, and other real-world events. However, as Kalshi markets itself to small businesses and big Wall Street players as a financial hedge vehicle, many suspect it's just trying to control its reputation to sidestep sports gambling laws.

The New York Times reports that Kalshi has spent the past several months

What just happened? Ohio can enforce a law requiring children under 16 to get parental consent before using social media, a federal appeals court has ruled. The decision marks a rare win for state efforts to restrict minors' access to platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat after similar laws elsewhere were blocked on free speech grounds.

A divided 2-1 panel of the Cincinnati-based 6th US

Looking ahead: Midjourney built its name on AI-generated images. Now, it is talking about something far more ambitious: scanning the human body. In a post this week, the company outlined plans for a body-scanning system built around ultrasonic sensing and large-scale data capture. The idea is to generate detailed, three-dimensional images of the body in under a minute, with performance the company says could

WTF?! Remember the early days of the internet, when many net denizens would download music from file-sharing platforms such as Napster and burn it onto CDs? Like Blockbuster, such things are seen as a relic of a bygone age, so it's surprising to learn that a UK man has just been handed a suspended jail sentence for unauthorized mixing and selling of music CDs.

Trading standards officers first began investigating

In context: Unpatchable, hardware-level vulnerabilities caused a stir some years ago when they repeatedly turned up in AMD and Intel processors, but they've been far rarer on Apple chips. This latest discovery only affects older iPhone processors, but it still shows that even relatively recent SecureROM implementations aren't foolproof.

Security researchers at Paradigm Shift have published the first iPhone bootROM exploit in years. The process, called usbliter

A hot potato: A security researcher has discovered serious vulnerabilities in Frontier Airlines' booking system. Using just two pieces of information printed on every boarding pass – a booking code and a last name – anyone can pull full passport numbers, home addresses, TSA PreCheck codes, and nearly complete credit card details from the airline's API. The vulnerabilities have been known for over three months.

If you've ever flown

Compilation Matters: Despite the meteoric rise of generative AI services, traditional tools such as Photoshop still dominate the creative industry. So much so that Microsoft – now largely focused on cloud services and AI models – is working hard to find new ways to make Windows-based applications run faster.

Thanks to a close collaboration with Adobe, Microsoft engineers have significantly improved performance in certain Photoshop operations. Photoshop is a large, native desktop