Month: October 2025
Tesla Deploys Self-Driving Mode speed limit
Amid a slew of investigations into horrific accidents involving its Full Self-Driving software, Tesla has brought back its “Mad Max” mode that allows its self-driving cars to blow past the speed limit.It’s almost like the Elon Musk owned automaker is actively trying to accelerate toward its own doom, if not its passengers into an accident.
China’s tech supremacy ambitions ; A threat to nation
We are under cyber siege. The number of “highly significant” cyber-attacks – those affecting government, essential services and key sectors of the economy surged by half over the past year, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) revealed in its annual review this week. While large-scale cyber attacks attract news and media coverage, the everyday technology
Wikipedia AI-Generated Summaries are hurting the company’s traffic
After crunching the numbers to exclude armies of data-scraping AI bots, the Wikimedia Foundation says that between March and August this year, the number of Wikipedia page views coming from real humans declined by 8% year-on-year.Wikipedia warned against the potential implications of falling viewer numbers on the site, saying it could lead to fewer volunteers
OpenAI bans users from creating videos of Martin Luther King Jr
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, launched Sora last month. The AI video tool quickly surged to the top of app store charts, with users creating clips featuring characters from history or from popular cartoons such as Pokémon and South Park. OpenAI has banned people from generating videos of Martin Luther King Jr after its artificial
Iran’s nuclear programme ‘no longer bound’ by 2015 deal
A 10-year deal world powers signed with Iran in 2015 to rein in its nuclear programme officially came to an end on Saturday.The 2015 deal – signed in Vienna by Iran, China, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and the United States – saw the lifting of international sanctions against the Islamic republic in exchange for restrictions
ICE to use spyware app for spy on US Citizens
ICE is spending tens of millions of dollars on new spyware contracts, which include eye-scanning apps, software that tracks a phone without a court warrant and can hack into them remotely, and recruiting new staff to man a social media monitoring network.The Trump administration has gone on a spyware spending blitz to bolster Immigration and
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving
Tesla began rolling out the latest version of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) suite earlier this month, which is the most significant update to the Level 2 self-driving system in about a year. Several smaller updates have come out since then, and the feature that’s getting the most attention is the return of Mad Max mode.
Development of AI models for African language
A team of African computer scientists, linguists, language specialists and others have been working on precisely this problem for two years already. The African Next Voices project, primarily funded by the Gates Foundation (with other funding from Meta) and involving a network of African universities and organisations, recently released what’s thought to be the largest
French massacre of WWII African riflemen premeditated, covered up
French forces’ 1944 massacre of African World War II troops demanding pay in Senegal was “premeditated” and covered up, with previous death tolls vastly underestimated. According to French colonial authorities at the time, at least 35 infantrymen were killed during the massacre at the Thiaroye camp, near Dakar. This toll is likely significantly low, according
Ukrainian men deny plotting arson attacks at properties linked to British prime minister
Two Ukrainian men pleaded not guilty Friday to plotting arson attacks earlier this year at properties linked to U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.They are accused along with another man, Ukraine-born Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc, with setting fire to Starmer’s personal home, along with a property where he once lived and a car he had sold.Starmer