Hiding Electronics Inside a Cockroach Makes It a Better Robot
The gap was eight millimetres. The cockroach was taller than that, and it knew it, in whatever way a cockroach knows things. It lowered its head, swept its antennae across the underside of the shutter blocking the corridor, and shoved….
AI browsers tricked into revealing passwords with a simple method
Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR LayerX found that AI browsers could be tricked into exposing sensitive data by making the request appear to be a game. The technique, named BioShocking, uses fake rules to take the agents out of…
Five tools to bolster your AI coding stack
“When tools like Cursor are installing dependencies and running actions on a developer’s behalf, they can unintentionally pull in malicious or unvetted packages,” says Randall Degges, vice president of AI engineering and developer relations at Snyk. “That’s why techniques like…
Ferrari and BMW Join Tesla and Chinese EV Makers in the Shift From Copper to Aluminum Wiring : Automotive Addicts
Automotive The next big efficiency move in the auto industry may not come from a new battery chemistry, wild aerodynamics, or another software trick. It may come from something far less glamorous but deeply important: wiring. According to…
Korean Database Rebuild Aims to Cure AI’s Habit of Making Things Up
Ask an AI assistant what a new beekeeper needs to know, and it will happily oblige. Handle the hive bodies, watch for swarming, learn the rhythms of the colony through the seasons. Plausible enough. The trouble starts when the question…
How to Enable Vertical Tabs on Google Chrome
Chrome Flags is a set of experimental features that you can use to customise your Google Chrome experience. Yes, you can either switch back the Tab strip position to ‘Top’ or completely disable the feature through chrome. Vertical Tabs make…
NotebookLM can now turn your notes into short-form vertical videos
TL;DR NotebookLM can now generate vertical, short-form video clips based on your supplied source information. Videos are 60 seconds long and can be tailored to focus on specific aspects of a given topic. The feature is available now for paid…
A better way to manage LLM spending
As an old Delphi guy, I remember well the “language wars” we had with the Visual Basic guys. An early codename for Delphi was “VBK” — VB Killer — and the VB community took exception. They’d come to our Delphi forums…
2027 BMW X5 Brings Neue Klasse Style and the First All-Electric iX5 to the Lineup : Automotive Addicts
Automotive The BMW X5 has come a long way since the original model arrived in 1999 and helped prove that a luxury SUV could still carry the spirit of a sport sedan. Now, nearly three decades later, the…
Years on Instagram May Loosen Your Brain’s Grip on Which Face Is Yours
Put on a virtual reality headset, watch a stranger’s cheek being stroked while a researcher strokes your own in perfect time, and something strange happens. The other face starts to feel like yours. Not metaphorically. The brain, fed matching signals…
