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Linus Torvalds says Linux is “not one of those anti-AI projects.”

“I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I’m willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer,” Torvalds said this week in a message, as reported by The Register. If someone has issues with Linux not being anti-AI, “they can do the open-source thing and fork it.”

Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there

Union wants to halt a “perpetual cycle” of layoffs, get back to contract bargaining.

Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines

The convenience store chain will use StorMagic instead.

xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’

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Engineer Identifies and Explains Every '90s Computer Seen in Jurassic Park

Everything in the set was real. We couldn’t fake any of it, because audiences are so sophisticated now in their knowledge of computers. All told, $875,000 worth of computer hardware loaned by Silicon Graphics, $350,000 worth from Apple and some $500,000 in additional hardware and software went into equipping both the set and off-stage control room.

Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms

The safety board confirmed Tesla's account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month.

How to make AI safe—and lessen dependence on America and China

PROGRESS IS rapidly being made towards regulating the release of powerful new AI models in America. Its government is set to soon outline its plan, after taking suggestions from the industry. Speaking to The Economist this week Sir Demis Hassabis, the boss of Google DeepMind, pitched a hybrid public-private regulator for the industry, echoing our own thoughts. The regulator is modelled on the agency that regulates brokers and stock markets.

AI Slop Movies Are the New Direct-to-Video Cash Grabs

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Dan Ives and Trump family-linked securities group launch AI bank, because why not?

Ives and Yorkville. Name a more iconic duo

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.

The CEO of a vibe-coding startup Emergent shares what he looks for in developers in the AI era

Mukund Jha said he expects demand for software to "exponentially increase."

OpenAI trained an AI for red-teaming AI.

The new GPT-Red model “can break nearly all models it is pitted against,” according to an OpenAI blog post on Wednesday. OpenAI says it used GPT-Red to find vulnerabilities in GPT-5.6 Sol, a process that made it the company’s “most robust model to prompt injections to date.”