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Waymo is bringing its robotaxis to Canada, and Toronto is first. Its cars will start driving the city’s streets in the coming days, and the company wants its first public riders on board in 2028.

That makes Toronto Waymo’s fourth announced market outside the US, after London, Tokyo, and Singapore. But there’s a catch: Ontario doesn’t have rules for a commercial driverless service yet.

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A week ago, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proposed livestreaming the firing-squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army major who killed 13 people and injured another 32 in a […]

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A driver in Upstate New York is facing several charges after allegedly leading State Police on a high-speed chase with speeds topping 150 miles per hour. Continue reading…

The Birth of the Horse, 1913 #expressionism #franzmarc

A top performer in both dark rooms and in bright sunshine, the AWOL Vision Aetherion Max RGB Laser UST Projector gives movie theaters a run for their money.

A network of AI-generated models is using comics’ material to funnel views to their OnlyFans and Fanvue accounts—and there’s not much comedians can do about it.

April 2025. Kōloa, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i. When I first visited Kaua‘i, I learned about Poʻipū Beach, a shoreline shaped by a shifting sandbar called Nukumoi Point. The sandbar naturally links the beach to a small offshore island, creating two distinct beach experiences side by side—one calm and protected, the other more open to the surf—making the […]

Chasten and I are heartbroken by the news coming out of Bend. We are keeping the families of those killed in this shooting, and the entire Silver Rail Elementary community, in our prayers.

Understanding the American electorate has never been more important or more challenging, especially for journalists. We know the country is polarized and that voters in both parties are angry. But […]

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ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (October 16, 2026) — The Poynter Institute today announced the first cohort of Leading AI in the Newsroom, a new leadership program created for journalists guiding artificial […]

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The pioneering reusable upper stage for Stoke Space's Nova rocket ships out for testing.

Every time an AI agent has to trawl Slack threads, Jira tickets and old pull requests to piece together something

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Senate candidate James Talarico got right to the heart of what’s really going on with right-wing attacks on transgender people and their health care. Talarico faced undecided Republicans and independents at a CNN/Jubilee town hall Wednesday evening. (Opponent Ken Paxton was...

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Any open model whose weights have been edited can carry a backdoor, whether it’s a task-specific fine-tune, a merged adapter or an abliterated build. We have abliterated models in the title because it’s the most popular reason people download modified weights without verifying what’s inside. Abliteration is a cheap fine-tune that takes away a model’s ability to refuse. You find the direction in the weights that carries “no” and subtract it. The model then answers things a safety-tuned version would turn down. It began as a research trick and it’s now routine before people upload a model to Hugging Face, where you’ll find abliterated builds of most of the popular open weights: Qwen, Llama, even OpenAI’s gpt-oss...

The pioneering reusable upper stage for Stoke Space's Nova rocket ships out for testing.

"An encounter in the Christ-haunted South."

This direct-to-consumer brand’s latest top-of-the-line devices work well but only showcase incremental improvements over previous models.

Surprised by the hype around yet another documentary on Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes? It has everything to do with this experimental comedian.

In my previous article, I argued that agentic development needs enough specification to make correctness checkable. A quick prompt can get implementation started quickly, but someone still has to decide whether the result does what we wanted. I left a fairly practical question unanswered, though. Once the agent has written the code, how should we […]