Wired

What Is Thread? We Explain the Smart Home Network Protocol

Thread is a protocol designed to connect smart home devices in a wireless mesh network. It works much like Wi-Fi but requires less power. With Thread, devices from any manufacturer can create a ...
The Verge

There’s a social network for AI agents, and it’s getting weird

A viral post asks questions about consciousness. A viral post asks questions about consciousness. is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also ...
Reuters

Texas governor bars state employees from using Shein, Alibaba products

WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Texas will bar its employees from using Shein, Alibaba and TP-Link hardware and software, the governor said in a statement on Monday, saying his state made the decision ...
Wired

‘Veronika’ Is the First Cow Known to Use a Tool

Justice for Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson: A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, a cow using a tool in a flexible manner. The ingenuity of “Veronika,” as the animal is called, shows ...
Scientific American

A tool-using cow is challenging what we know about farm animal intelligence

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...
TechCrunch

Google announces a new protocol to facilitate commerce using AI agents

Google on Sunday announced a new open standard called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for AI agent-based shopping, at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference. The standard, developed ...
The White House

ENSURING A NATIONAL POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Section 1. Purpose. United States leadership in Artificial Intelligence (AI) will promote United States national and economic security and dominance across many domains. Pursuant to Executive Order ...
The New York Times

At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts. By Michael ...
New York Post

State Street still using DEI to curry favor with leftist state officials despite Wall Street clampdown

Woke investing has faced a clampdown on Wall Street, but if its critics are to be believed State Street – one of the biggest asset managers in the US – is still using it to curry favor with leftist ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Chinese Hackers Blamed for Severe Breach at US Cyber Firm F5

A potentially “catastrophic” breach of a major US-based cybersecurity provider has been blamed on state-backed hackers from China, according to people familiar with the matter. Seattle-based F5 Inc.
Science Daily

The quantum internet just went live on Verizon’s network

Penn engineers have taken quantum networking from the lab to Verizon’s live fiber network, using a silicon “Q-chip” that speaks the same Internet Protocol as the modern web. The system pairs classical ...