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A federal judge has allowed key parts of a class action lawsuit against Delta Air Lines to proceed, stemming from massive flight disruptions caused by CrowdStrike’s faulty Windows update in July 2024. The Register reports: Delta blamed its reliance on Microsoft software and the CrowdStrike incident for its woes. However, according to the plaintiffs in … Read more
This is the first of five parts in this series. 1. ELI5: Understanding MCP Imagine you have a single universal plug that fits all your devices—that’s essentially what the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is for AI. MCP is an open standard (think “USB-C for AI integrations”) that allows AI models to connect to many different … Read more
The changing face of chip export controls The Biden-era chip restriction framework, which we covered in January, established a three-tiered system for regulating AI chip exports. The first tier included 17 countries, plus Taiwan, that could receive unlimited advanced chips. A second tier of roughly 120 countries faced caps on the number of chips they … Read more
Amazon is offering numerous all-time low prices on Apple Watch Series 10 devices today, including both GPS and cellular models at $100 off original prices. If you want to build your band collection to match your new Apple Watch, be sure to check out Woot’s BOGO free sale on Solo Loop and Braided Solo Loop … Read more
As Tom Cruise loves to say, “See you at the movies.” Warner Bros. has announced the release dates for The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, the next Evil Dead installment, and M. Night Shyamalan’s next mystery. Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema will release The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for … Read more
Linux Mint has forked and modified many GNOME and GTK applications to keep them working with the Linux distro’s custom theme support. The team is now trying a new approach that would allow more current apps to work, without extensive modification or fully killing theme support. Linux Mint has pushed back against many modern trends … Read more
At an event in Dortmund, Germanytoday, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touch—designed to transform how robots interact with the physical world.” In the short to medium term, the physical world that Amazon is most concerned with is its … Read more
Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Getty Images About 1.2m people in the UK were affected by banking outages that happened on what was pay day for many earlier this year. The details have emerged in letters from Lloyds, TSB, Nationwide and HSBC to Dame Meg Hillier, the chair of the Commons Treasury Committee, which is looking … Read more
Nintendo reported relatively weak sales of 1,164.9 billion yen for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, down 30.3% from 1,671.8 billion yen a year earlier. But the company was bullish about its Switch 2 forecast, as it expects 15 million units of Switch 2 hardware to sell in the fiscal year ending March 31, … Read more
MirageC/Getty Images Multimodal AI, which can ingest content in non-text formats like audio and images, has leveled up the data that large language models (LLMs) can parse. However, new research from security specialist Enkrypt AI suggests these models are also more susceptible to novel jailbreak techniques. Also: Anthropic finds alarming ’emerging trends’ in Claude misuse … Read more