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A flight tracking service is suing Kalshi for using its data without authorization

Threads has a VR app now

Meta has launched a Threads app for Meta Quest VR headsets, the company announced on Tuesday. The launch follows Meta bringing the app to its Ray-Ban Display AR glasses last month and the recent news that the platform has crossed 500…

Iran digs in on demands over Hormuz as mediators assert progress made toward deal

Iranian official says strait won't reopen unless US ends Gaza and Lebanon wars and releases frozen Iranian assets; Pakistan says sides 'close to some sort of an arrangement' The post Iran digs in on demands over Hormuz as mediators assert…

What Project Hail Mary Can Teach IT Professionals (Part 1)

Pre-Launch Checklist What follows are some observations and ideas that are inspired by “Project Hail Mary”, both the book by Andy Weir and the movie it inspired. If you haven’t read/watched them (and I highly recommend you do!) and you…

Disproportionate Collapse: What Building Codes Know About Your Cascading Failures

A 1968 tower collapse forced civil engineers to design for the failure of any single element. Distributed systems have the parts — circuit breakers, bulkheads, failovers — but not always the discipline. This piece continues a habit I lean…

German lawmaker calls on government to rein in financial aid to Ukraine

Markus Frohnmaier recalled that since February 2022, Germany has allocated more than 100 billion euro in assistance to Ukraine

Sonos Plans September Launch Event and Deeper Push Into Home AI

Sonos chief executive Tom Conrad says model quality will converge and the advantage will sit with hardware that already knows a home. An FCC filing names the first product of that push, the Ace Ultra headphones, expected at a September…

Investigators say chemical, DNA reports not ‘conclusive’ enough to determine direction of Mir Raza Ali probe

Investigators probing the murder of young business owner Mir Raza Ali on Tuesday received the chemical examiner’s report and one DNA report, but said the findings were not yet “conclusive” enough to determine the direction of the…

AITX's SARA Shows Why Most Agentic AI Never Leaves the Alert Screen

Photo courtesy of AITX Every agentic AI demo ends in the same place. The system notices something, produces a clean summary of what it noticed, and hands the decision back to a person waiting on the other side of the screen. That handoff…

Survey finds AI adoption spurring shift in tech hiring from software to hardware

Despite major layoffs, tech employment is stable even as Israeli software firms cut jobs amid AI advances, with hardware companies continuing to hire to meet demand for chips The post Survey finds AI adoption spurring shift in tech hiring…

Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users

Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June.

Zoom screen-sharing bug let people fully take over other devices on a call