Jetbrains launches Junie, a new coding agent for the idea
Jetbrains, companies at the end of the coding tool like Java and Kotlin (and, firm, Kotlin's own language, the new coding AI. This agent, the company says, it will be able to handle regular development tasks when you want to create a new application - and know the context of the project you want to extend the new features....
Even some of the best AIs can’t beat this new benchmark
The nonprofit Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and AI Scale, a company that provides several data labels and AI development services, have released a challenging new benchmark for frontier AI systems. The benchmark, called the Humanities Final Exam, includes thousands of multiple-choice questions on subjects like math, humanities, and natural sciences. To make the evaluation more difficult, the questions...
Trump’s Cryptonaissance Is Here
The wheel has begun to turn on Donald Trump's plan to make the US the "crypto capital of the planet" after returning to the White House. " who will be responsible for considering the possibility of the US forming a "strategic national digital asset stockpile," among others. The promise to establish a stockpile is one of the many commitments...
The Creators of ‘Palworld’ Are Back – This Time With a Horror Game
Pocketpair, the company behind last year's viral game Palworld, has a new venture: publishing indie games. His first project, scheduled for release this year, will be an unnamed horror game from Surgent Studios, the developer behind 2024's Tales of Kenzera: Zau.Palworld, jokingly called "Pokémon with guns," as a breakout. successful last year, signing in more than 25 million players...
Fitbit fined $12M over Ionic smartwatch fire
Fitbit has settled with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) over a long-running defeat that left some wearers sick. The settlement finds the Google-owned fitness company paying a $12.25 million fine for problems with its Ionic smartwatch. The issue began in 2018, and continues into 2020. Fitbit agreed to recall the wearable in March 2022, as the CPSC...
‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyers on Why They’re Ruining Companies
The only exception is the case of UMG v. Anthropic, since the earliest, previous version of Anthropic will produce song lyrics for songs in the output. That's the problem. The current status of the case is that they have put in place safeguards to prevent this from happening, and the parties have agreed that, pending the resolution of the...
OpenAI Operator Lets ChatGPT Use the Web for You
OpenAI is allowing some users to test the new ChatGPT feature that uses artificial intelligence to operate web browsers to travel, buy groceries, find deals, and perform many other online tasks. The new tool called Operator, is an AI agent: It relies on AI models trained on text and images to interpret commands and determine how to use a...
Subaru Security Flaw Opens System to Track Millions of Cars
Curry and Shah reported their findings to Subaru in late November, and Subaru quickly addressed the Starlink security flaw. But researchers warn that Subaru's web vulnerability is just the latest in a long series of similar web-based flaws and other security researchers working with him have found that more than a dozen automakers are affected, including Acura, Genesis, Honda,...
The Proud Boys Plan A Comeback. And He wants revenge
Although they were mobilized in some cases to support Trump before the 2024 election, it was, overall, quite lackluster, especially compared to 2020. This led to speculation that the gang was on its last legs. Then, on Friday, as Trump took the oath of office, more than 100 Proud Boys in uniform marched through the streets of Washington, DC,...
The Global Far Right Celebrates Trump’s New World Order
In the first 48 hours of President Donald Trump's second term in office, he has taken action on virtually every culture war topic that has excited the base for the last 12 months, including signing dozens of executive orders targeting immigrants, gender expression, the environment, and DEI policies. Trump has also pardoned or commuted the sentences of everyone involved...
