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Uber revealed on Wednesday a prototype car that it plans to use to scoop up real-world driving data for its growing roster of autonomous vehicle partners, including Avride, Waymo, and WeRide. The vehicle is not some radical design. Rather, it’s a Hyundai Ioniq 5 fitted with an in

There’s a lot that doesn’t add up in a security advisory password manager Dashlane published Monday, warning that attackers managed to obtain 20 encrypted user vaults. “Starting on Sunday, May 31, 2026, an external party launched a brute force attack against certain Dashlane user

Off the Wire Press Releases TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2026 — ASRock Rack Inc., a leading innovative server company, has announced its latest portfolio of AI-native infrastructure designed for the era of agentic AI. Showcasing at COMPUTEX 2026 (Booth No.: R0514), ASRock Rack is intr

If Alphabet’s record-breaking $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings — and it does — we can safely say that investors are voracious. Google’s parent company had initially intended to sell a first tranche of $40 billion worth of various equity in

Off the Wire Press Releases EMERYVILLE, Calif. and LOS ANGELES, June 3, 2026 — Anyon Technologies, a vertically integrated superconducting quantum supercomputing company founded by pioneers from Caltech and UC Berkeley, and Q-CTRL, a global leader in quantum infrastructure softwa

Meta’s attempt to pioneer a metaverse and make VR cool totally flopped, except for one shining diamond in the rough: Supernatural, a VR fitness game that made working out feel fun and accessible. Now, users can rejoice that Supernatural isn’t shutting down after all. Meta went th

The generative AI boom has driven the cost of memory into the stratosphere, and Google is a key part of that trend. So it’s only fitting that Google should offer some less RAM-hungry local AI models. The company has announced the release of a new Gemma 4 model that fills a gap in

Substack announced on Wednesday a new feature called “Reply Rules,” designed to give creators greater control over how their audiences are able to respond. With the feature, creators can establish specific guidelines for comments on their posts, in Notes, or in Chat. These guidel

Google Labs, the tech giant’s team devoted to experimental product design, has launched a new AI-fueled app for iOS and Android that will quite literally animate your life. Behold, Dreambeans. Why is it called that? We’ll get to that later. First, what is it? Gozde Oznur, the pro

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Off the Wire Press Releases Funding through the latest NCRIS rounds will support Pawsey’s ongoing operations and include $1.5 million for its quantum computing program. June 3, 2026 — The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has welcomed continued investment from the Australian

Uber is slashing 23% of jobs in its people division as it seeks to streamline operations under the direction of new president Jill Hazelbaker. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a memo that the "changes are necessary to maximize the effectiveness of the People team and the enormous po