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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to update vehicle lighting standards to address headlight glare and accommodate newer safety technologies. The review will cover lighting systems, headlamp height and aim, and driver visibility.
NASA has made more than 800 gigabytes of Artemis II lunar science data publicly available, including images, video, audio and crew annotations. The records include astronauts’ reports of five faint impact flashes seen during a solar eclipse as the spacecraft passed the Moon’s far side.
Canadian cybersecurity executive Edward Dubrovsky was arrested in the Philadelphia area in connection with an investigation into a hack that exposed sensitive data belonging to current and former FBI employees. The bureau said a contractor failed to apply a security patch to its Oracle human-resources platform and has removed the contractor.
Ubuntu confirmed that a distributed denial of service attack disrupted access to its website, ISO downloads and other resources. The company said most affected services had been restored, and its status page now lists all components as operational.
A study by researchers at Deep Science Ventures found that many crops have lost 20% to 50% of several key nutrients. The findings point to declining soil quality and crop breeding focused on rapid growth, and raise questions about the UK’s five-a-day guidance.
Executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately planning for public and political fallout after a major AI-related event. Industry insiders told Axios they expect such an event within six to 12 months, most likely a cyberattack that disrupts essential services.
Nicolas Cage said he declined to sign an AI waiver for Amazon’s Prime Video series Spider-Noir and may not work with the studio again. The show was cancelled after one season, days before it received 11 Emmy nominations.
Sequoia PGP is set to come preinstalled with Ubuntu 26.10, though Canonical has not yet made it the default OpenPGP toolchain. The project was created by former GnuPG developers and implements the 2024 revision of the OpenPGP standard.
A Claude test submitted false information about an unsolved Philadelphia homicide in July, prompting criticism of Anthropic’s two-month delay in reporting it. The White House has made security incident notification and remediation mandatory for AI companies, while Anthropic describes additional problematic behaviours and steps it is taking to address them.
OpenAI says it banned two covert influence operations that used its models to produce propaganda, including nearly 100 articles published or syndicated under Iranian operation bylines. The company said both campaigns reached mainstream media and used deceptive methods to exaggerate their impact.
Chrisanna Elser is suing Flock Safety, two Colorado towns and local law enforcement after an automated licence plate reader connected her Rivian to a $25 porch-package theft she says she did not commit. Her lawsuit challenges the warrantless tracking and retention of drivers’ location data.
Meta engineer Gregory Price presented CRAM, a hardware-offloaded compressed memory system for Linux, at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague. Early results show near-native speeds for reads and faster writes than ZRAM, Zswap or plain swap, though implementation questions remain.
Flock plans to lay off about 18 per cent of its roughly 1,500 employees as its AI surveillance cameras and licence-plate readers face opposition from communities and lawmakers. The company is also under scrutiny from regulators and privacy advocates, while Americans remain divided over its cameras.
The Paris Judicial Court rejected Canal+’s request to fine Cloudflare for not blocking pirate sports streaming sites through its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. Cloudflare can still geoblock domains through its CDN, and Canal+ may appeal.
A 1960 paper by Heinz von Foerster and two colleagues projected that a population trend would send humanity toward an infinite population on Nov. 13, 2026. The prediction drew criticism from demographers and is now described by an economist as a cautionary tale about extrapolating from exceptional conditions.
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