General AI News

The Trans-Taiga Road is a 666 km gravel road extending east from the James Bay Road to near Labrador.

It was built to access hydroelectric dams and generating stations along the La Grande River.

This road is extremely remote with no public settlements and is the farthest point by road from any town in North America.

Google’s new Veo 3 AI video generator produces highly realistic content that can be misused to create racist and antisemitic videos.

TikTok is being flooded with eight-second Veo 3 videos targeting Black people, immigrants, and Jewish people with hateful tropes.

TikTok’s community guidelines ban hate speech, but human and automated moderation are unable to keep up with the flood of uploads.

AI agents are often too complex and brittle for initial LLM workflows.

Five simpler patterns—prompt chaining, parallelization, routing, orchestrator-worker, and evaluator-optimizer—cover most use cases.

Start with structured workflows and human control before handing over to agents.

D automatically generates constructors for structs based on field order.

D supports design by contract with in/out assertions and invariants.

The $ operator provides a shorthand for array length.

US federal science agencies face unprecedented budget cuts, terminations, and layoffs jeopardizing research programs.

Over one-third of NASA’s active science missions are threatened with cancellation or defunding.

The NSF, NOAA, CDC, EPA, and FDA have had grants revoked, contracts broken, and thousands of employees fired.

Tesla’s Powerwall and Megapack installations fell for the second quarter running, dropping to 9.6 GWh in Q2 2025.

The division previously peaked at 11 GWh in Q4 2024 after deploying 31.4 GWh across 2024.

Energy storage and solar revenue grew from $2B in 2020 to $10.1B in 2024, but this growth streak may end with a weak start to 2025.

Websites hosting U.S. national climate assessments and the U.S. Global Change Research Program were taken offline with no redirects or links available.

The White House said the reports will be moved to NASA, but searches on NASA and NOAA sites failed to locate them and agencies provided no details.

Experts warn that removing access to these taxpayer-funded, peer-reviewed assessments hinders decision makers and raises risks from climate-related impacts.

Couchers officially exited Beta with the release of version 1.

The new strategy emphasizes being the safest, healthiest, and most active couch surfing community.

A redesigned landing page clearly communicates values and uses anonymized map pins for privacy.

ICEBlock lets iPhone users anonymously report ICE agent sightings within a five-mile radius.

Pam Bondi’s public criticism propelled the app to top of the U.S. App Store charts overnight.

Most of the app’s 20,000 users are in Los Angeles, where ICE raids are frequent.

Several built-in Azure roles unintentionally include a generic */read permission that grants read access to all resources beyond their described scope.

At least ten service-specific roles are over-privileged, misleading administrators into assigning broad read permissions.

Attackers with minimal read privileges can enumerate credentials, sensitive data, network settings, and role assignments for planning further attacks.