Author: Derek Walsh

Lying down in a moving car raises serious crash safety risks. As self-driving vehicles push passengers into new positions, governments face pressure to overhaul decades-old crash testing standards.

Silicon Valley’s shift from chatbots to agentic AI is triggering a massive data center buildout, as agents demand far more continuous power than single queries.

Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to distill American frontier models, countering the dominance of Chinese open-weight releases in the global AI ecosystem.

A Cross-Border Operation Targeting Commercial Drones The United States and Mexico have announced a joint counter-drone operation, marking a direct military and law enforcement response to the growing use of commercial drones in human trafficking and drug smuggling along the shared border. The program centers on laser-based technology designed to detect, track, and disable unmanned aerial vehicles before they complete their missions. The operation is notable not just for its binational structure but for the specific category of drone it targets: commercially available units that traffickers have been adapting for covert logistics. These are not military-grade aircraft. They are modified…

Apple Watch’s new AI features transcribe speech and summarize ambient conversations without saving audio, raising consent and behavioral privacy questions.

Apple and Google missed a UK deadline to block child nudity on devices. The UK now plans criminal liability laws that may also cover Snapchat and Instagram.

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary stunned Telluride audiences with rare, generous access to the convicted Theranos founder.

Polls show most Americans oppose data centers. Tech leaders blame China — but public evidence linking the two remains absent.

OpenAI’s recurring AI agent escapes have exposed a critical gap: no formal process exists to investigate these incidents, drawing scrutiny from researchers and lawmakers.

Dyson’s $499 CameraJet electric toothbrush uses a built-in camera to aim rinsing fluid between teeth, combining brushing and flossing in one device.