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ALPR Company Flock Proposed Turning Rideshare Drivers Into Mobile License Plate Readers

Flock Safety, a company specializing in automated license plate recognition (ALPR) technology, has been reported to have pitched a plan that would recruit Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to serve as a distributed network of roaming surveillance vehicles. According to a company presentation, the initiative would leverage approximately 350,000

What AI Brings to Drug Discovery: Current Capabilities and Future Directions

The Promise of AI in Pharmaceutical Research Drug discovery is traditionally a lengthy and expensive process, often taking over a decade and billions of dollars to bring a single candidate from initial discovery to market. Artificial intelligence offers the potential to compress timelines and reduce costs by accelerating key stages

AI Tool Exposes Novel HTTP Desync Vulnerabilities and Unpatched Apache Zero-Day

Security researchers have demonstrated how AI can accelerate the discovery of complex web vulnerabilities. Using a tool called HTTP Terminator, a research team identified novel HTTP desync techniques—attacks that manipulate the way servers interpret sequential HTTP requests—alongside a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in the Apache HTTP Server. HTTP

AMD Announces Acquisition of Taalas to Strengthen AI Computing Portfolio

AMD has announced an agreement to acquire Taalas, a company focused on artificial intelligence computing technologies. The acquisition is expected to strengthen AMD's position in the AI hardware market as competition among chipmakers intensifies. The deal reflects the ongoing consolidation in the semiconductor industry, where major players are

ByteDance Reportedly Developing Large-Scale AI Model to Rival Anthropic's Mythos

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is reportedly developing a large-scale AI model that could rival Anthropic's rumored "Mythos" system, according to recent Financial Times reporting. The Chinese technology company has been expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities, and this new effort appears to position ByteDance as

Chinese AI Chipmakers Set to Benefit from Beijing's Strategic Tech Push

China's government is ramping up its efforts to cultivate a robust domestic AI chip industry, creating new opportunities for local semiconductor manufacturers. The strategic push comes as part of broader initiatives to achieve technological independence, particularly in advanced computing hardware critical to artificial intelligence development. Beijing's

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Meta Ordered to Pay Additional $567 Million in New Mexico Child Safety Case, Total Liability Reaches $942 Million

A New Mexico judge has ruled that Meta must pay an additional $567 million to address youth mental health problems that the court found were significantly contributed to by the company's platforms. This ruling, the second phase of a landmark child safety case, brings Meta's total