2026-07-10
A US senator has a plan to make AI answer for its harms. It starts with your local data centre
The fight over AI’s harms has played out state by state. One US senator wants to make it federal, all at once. Ed Markey has a long list of worries about artificial intelligence. Thirsty data centres. Workplace surveillance. Biased algorithms. Chatbots that prey on children. On Friday the Massachusetts Democrat tried to turn that list […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-10
Home robots already walk. 1X’s new hands try to solve the part that actually matters
Humanoid robots learned to walk years ago. The thing still tripping them up is the hand. 1X has given its NEO home robot new hands, and they are the most interesting thing about it. A robot can stride across a stage and still be useless in a kitchen. Lifting a wet glass takes precision, fast […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-10
Proton VPN brings official one-click installs to the Linux Snap Store — but some features are still missing
Proton VPN just dropped its first official app on the Linux Snap Store. While it boasts easy one-click installation and a verified publisher badge, users will have to wait for split tunneling, the Stealth protocol, and ARM support. [...]
2026-07-10
Google's TabFM skips per-dataset training and still predicts on tables it's never seen
The vast majority of business data is tabular — living in data warehouses, CRMs, and financial ledgers — yet building a reliable model from it still means training a new one from scratch for every dataset, then maintaining hyperparameter tuning loops, feature engineering, and retraining pipelines to fight data drift. Google Research is proposing a way around that: a new foundation model called [...]
