Michael Grupp, founder and CEO of law tech platform Bryter, argues that Europe’s regulatory approach can give it a global edge in AI Remember the movie Dodgeball? That ridiculous scene where the coach makes his team run across a busy highway? The logic:“If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball.” Europe’s approach to AI feels similar:…

What is BadUSB? Using the STM32F407 development board, we’ll study HID device development and implement a low-cost BadUSB. This article uses the development board for testing. Those with the means can also create a PCB prototype and print the enclosure to create a highly realistic BadUSB.BadUSB is an attack that masquerades as a USB HID…

Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow some of its newest, largest models to end conversations in what the company describes as“rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.”Strikingly, Anthropic says it’s doing this not to protect the human user, but rather the AI model itself. To be clear, the company isn’t claiming that…

Another crypto company is headed for the public markets. This time, it’s Gemini Space Station Inc., the New York-based crypto exchange and custodian bank founded by billionaire twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. The outfit, which plans to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol GEMI, was founded in 2014 and operates as…

As developers, one of the challenges we constantly face is making our applications faster and more efficient. Whether you’re building a web app, processing data, or interacting with APIs, performance matters. And that’s where asynchronous programming comes in. If you’ve ever dealt with slow API responses, file I/O, or long-running computations in Python, you’ve probably wished your…

Russian hackers briefly hijacked a dam in Norway in early April and spilled millions of gallons of water before the attack was stopped, Norway’s spy chief revealed Thursday. The hackers opened a floodgate at the Bremanger dam in western Norway to release the equivalent of about three Olympic-sized swimming pools of water during the four…

Full EV performance now comes with a monthly fee. Welcome to the subscription economy The subscription model beloved of software is now creeping into cars.  Volkswagen has become the latest automaker to adopt the pricing structure. The German marque has introduced a monthly subscription fee to access the full performance of some of its ID.3…

Apple usually announces its new hardware in the fall, and this year is likely no different. The event is reported to be on September 9, and Apple is expected to release its iPhone 17 lineup, along with updates for the Apple Watch and AirPods.  As always, there are many rumors circulating, including bigger screens and…

One of Europe’s most prominent AI startups has released two AI models that are so tiny, they have named them after a chicken’s brain and a fly’s brain. Multiverse Computing claims these are the world’s smallest models that are still high-performing and can handle chat, speech, and even reasoning in one case.  These new tiny models…

A startup called Palabra AI, which develops an AI-powered speech translation engine, is tackling one of the more difficult aspects of teaching large language models (LLMs) to understand multiple languages. Today, LLMs make it easier to convert text from one language to another, but speech translation is not as simple, according to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian….