Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback
Xona aims to deploy 258 satellites into low-Earth orbit as a GPS alternative.
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SpaceX open sources Grok Build in same week company was found beaming users' repos to the cloud
AI-and-X subsidiary now claims to offer ‘complete user privacy’ days after Elon Musk confirmed the data would be deleted
AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites
Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK's National Lottery
Telegram shortlinks knocked offline over sanctioned VPN connection
t.me borked for a day until platform proved it had no ties to service favored by cybercriminals
How to teach an old Intel Mac new tricks with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Why to do it, and what to watch out for
Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all
Using the admin password, you could be anyone and see anything
Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas
It’s possible to leak PII describing 5.7 million people without breaching privacy rules
[AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights!
Even HP resellers thought the price of toner and ink was too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel
Regulator fines PC and printer giant for rigged tender bids and collusion
Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: KFC
The Colonel stops taking online orders and may close stores after logistics partner’s systems go down
Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't: releases a frontier AI model that's actually open
Thinking Machines' first open weights model is a 975 billion parameter alternative to Chinese LLMs
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.