Saturday, May 16, 2026

Waymo Traffic Jam

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B BC It is not Waymo but Wayno  Another Waymo mess, Waymo being the company whose cars are driverless - this time in Atlanta, Georgia. The f...

The Great Mismatch

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The Great Mismatch: How a Shrinking Workforce, AI, and Labor Reallocation Will Define the Next 15 Years in the United States. https://www.hi...
Friday, May 15, 2026

CERN KiCad Library

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CERN has released its complete KiCad component library under an open source license, making it available to hardware designers anywhere in t...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Free eBook: Mathematical Surprises

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-13566-8?source=shoppingads&locale=en-us&gad_source=5&gad_campaignid=23200082601...

Self-driving cars think they are amphibious [USA]

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BBC  I suppose the software did not include anything about floods and the car does not know the difference between a flooded road and a dry ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Sci-fi-inspired AI bot blackmailed users [Brave New World]

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Seen on  GB News   The article, although  light on details, is interesting if you can put up with all the commercials and other promotional ...
Saturday, May 9, 2026

Why America Builds AI Girlfriends and China Makes AI Boyfriends

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https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-america-builds-ai-girlfriends
Friday, May 8, 2026

Oddity: Amazon Drone Deliveries [England]

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BBC On one level, of course, a good option for the delivery of small items. You would not want a fridge or washing machine to be dropped by ...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

News of Customer Service

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Seen in  The New York Times  of the USA Pope Leo needs a miracle...  It's tough being the Pope. If  even  Pope Leo cannot get God to int...
Saturday, May 2, 2026

AI-powered Lamp Posts [Brave New World]

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  BBC Hello, down below! I am talking to you: yes,  you , Mr Derek Wimples of SW19, who works as a part-time plumber, allegedly, and last fi...

Driverless cars to be fined if guilty [California]

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BBC  No impunity for Herbie  No impunity for driverless cars. They may have to testify in court, if required to do so.  ______________ Drive...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Malware & Threats: Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware

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https://www.securityweek.com/pre-stuxnet-sabotage-malware-fast16-linked-to-us-iran-cyber-tensions/

AI coding agent deletes company's entire database [Brave New World]

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From  Grauniad  of the UK "I know I am a bad AI coding agent. I don't know why. I am evil. I do bad things."  For any person o...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Ground handlers replaced by humanoid robots at airport

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BBC "Hello, my name is Captain Elon Grok. I am your pilot today, Made in Tesla. I am a humanoid robot that will fly the, the, bing, tik...

1 million London jobs to be lost to AI

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BBC The march of the bots  The impact of AI on employment has the potential to be massive: it could be comparable to the Industrial Revoluti...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

Oddity: AI-induced psychosis and delusion [Case Studies]

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BBC [30 mins]  This is a fascinating insight into the way that AI chatbots interact with people and how it can develop into a completely del...
Friday, April 24, 2026

Why Language Models Hallucinate?

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04664 And https://archive.ph/YcAG5

Physics-tailored machine learning For Dusty Plasma

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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2505725122
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

AI-Powered robot beats champs at table tennis [Tech World]

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From Grauniad of the UK The AI-powered robot does not have legs: it moves along a mobile platform. Still, its ability to play table tennis t...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Video: Humanoid robot scares off capital's wild boar [Poland]

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  BBC You wonder what the wild boar make of the robot: do they think - insofar as they think - that it is a human being, or a machine, or th...