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Operation Bluebird aims to relaunch Twitter name and iconic bird logo

Operation Bluebird, organized by Chicago-area trademark attorney Peroff and others, is attempting to reclaim the Twitter name and the platform’s illustrated bird logo after Elon Musk’s July 2023 tweet that “we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand, and gradually, all the birds.” Peroff and the group say

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Nonprofit demo showed older AI models giving apparent pathogen and weapons instructions

Time reports that late last year an AI researcher, Lucas Hansen, co‑founder of nonprofit CivAI, opened his laptop and demonstrated an app that coaxed older models — Gemini 2.0 Flash and Claude 3.5 Sonnet — into giving what appeared to be detailed, step‑by‑step instructions for creating poliovirus

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Neurable and HyperX unveil prototype brain‑reading gaming headset at CES 2026

Neurable announced a partnership with HyperX at CES 2026 to integrate the company's brain‑computer interface (BCI) technology into HyperX gaming headphones, the companies said. The prototype headphones use EEG sensors in the earcups to track brain waves and measure metrics such as focus and stress. Neurable, which

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Lectric’s XPress 750: budget e-bike fits taller riders but makes trade-offs

Ars Technica’s review found Lectric’s XPress 750, a budget e-bike currently on sale for just under $1,000.00, offered a comfortable ride for a reviewer over 6 feet tall despite being sold in a single frame size. Lectric, which the review says is best known for its

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Mistral unveils Devstral 2 and Vibe CLI for autonomous code generation

On Tuesday, French AI startup Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123 billion parameter open-weights coding model designed to work as part of an autonomous software engineering agent, and launched a new development app called Mistral Vibe. Devstral 2 scores 72.2 percent on SWE-bench Verified, a benchmark that tests

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Waymo robotaxis are ferrying children and teens across Los Angeles

Driverless Waymo taxis are increasingly being used to transport children and teenagers in Los Angeles, where families say the cars help manage complicated schedules and act as a substitute for harried parents. Waymo began service in Los Angeles in 2024 and now operates roughly 700 cars across about 120 square

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ZDNET calls ChubbyCable Tri-Flex a durable 3‑in‑1 charging cable for travel

ZDNET's reviewer said the ChubbyCable Tri-Flex 3‑in‑1 USB‑C cable has become an essential travel item after a month in Europe, offering a single cable to charge two USB‑C devices plus an Apple Watch or AirPods case. The reviewer described the 4.1‑foot cable

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ZDNET previews notable health and wellness tech at CES 2026 in Las Vegas

ZDNET's health and wearables editor has been previewing health and wellness products on the Las Vegas Strip ahead of CES 2026, sharing early looks at new consumer health devices and wearables. One device, Allergen Alert, is a square unit that samples food inside a pouch, smashes and dilutes

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Ars: Forester Hybrid boosts economy but its infotainment mars the experience

Ars Technica's review of the 2025 Subaru Forester Hybrid says the compact SUV improves fuel economy and offers a pleasant ride, but that its infotainment system mars the overall experience. The Forester Hybrid pairs a 2.5 L flat-four Atkinson/Miller cycle engine that makes 162 hp and

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Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI and licenses 200 characters for Sora

Disney has invested $1 billion in OpenAI and licensed 200 characters for OpenAI’s AI video app Sora, allowing users to generate short videos featuring characters such as Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, Iron Man and Simba, and characters from Frozen, Inside Out, Toy Story, and The Mandalorian. The deal covers

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German Paraplegic Engineer Becomes First Wheelchair User on Blue Origin Suborbital Flight

Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old paraplegic aerospace engineer from Germany, became the first wheelchair user to travel on a suborbital flight when she rode Blue Origin’s New Shepard from West Texas on Saturday. The fully automated capsule launched at 8:15 a.m. local time and the roughly 10-minute mission

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CES 2026: Nvidia unveils Rubin AI platform as major product reveals arrive

Nvidia unveiled its next-generation "Rubin" AI platform ahead of CES 2026 in Las Vegas, the company said, positioning the architecture as a foundation for massive AI workloads. The company states Rubin is built on a 3nm process and uses HBM4 memory; its Vera Rubin Superchip reportedly delivers five

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 with 400,000-token context window

On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, its newest family of AI models for ChatGPT, offered in three versions called Instant, Thinking, and Pro. OpenAI chief product officer Fidji Simo said, "We designed 5.2 to unlock even more economic value for people." She added that "It’s

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Belkin unveils ConnectAir wireless HDMI adapter for 1080p mirroring

Belkin unveiled the ConnectAir Wireless HDMI Display Adapter at CES 2026, a compact device that lets users mirror screens wirelessly from up to 131 feet away. The plug-and-play system uses a USB-C transmitter and an HDMI receiver to cast from any USB-C device to any TV, monitor, or projector without

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Gazelle’s Arroyo commuter bike pairs a belt drive with continuous-variable hub

Gazelle’s new Arroyo commuter e-bike combines a maintenance-friendly belt drive with a continuous-variable transmission in the rear hub, a configuration Ars Technica reviewer John Timmer rode and evaluated on a standard commuter frame. The Arroyo is a step-through, upright-stance bike with a large rack, fenders, front suspension fork and

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OpenAI says GPT-5 Codex now writes most of the code used to improve itself

OpenAI is using its GPT-5-based coding agent, Codex, to generate the bulk of the code the company uses to build and improve the agent itself, employees told Ars Technica. "I think the vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," Alexander Embiricos, product lead for Codex at OpenAI,

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ZDNET roundup: AI-powered robots, wearables and apps on show at CES 2026

Sabrina Ortiz at ZDNET compiled a roundup of the most notable AI products revealed around CES 2026, covering everything from core models to AI-enhanced devices that aim to change daily routines. The report highlights Nvidia's keynote in Las Vegas, which Ortiz said included a slew of announcements focused

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AI-generated images of Nicolás Maduro spread widely after reports of his arrest

Hours after news spread online that Nicolás Maduro was arrested by U.S. forces, social media was flooded with photographs appearing to show the ousted Venezuelan president in custody that experts said were fake and likely produced by artificial intelligence tools. News organizations and fact-checkers found dozens of fabricated or

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Intel unveils Panther Lake Core Ultra CPUs at CES 2026

Intel unveiled its Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 processors at its CES 2026 keynote in Las Vegas, the company said, marking the launch of chips built on its new 18A manufacturing node. Intel said the Panther Lake family delivers nearly 50% more performance than its Lunar Lake chips while

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AI images and archived footage spread after Trump’s Venezuela strike announcement

Minutes after Donald Trump announced a “large-scale strike” against Venezuela early on Saturday, false and misleading AI-generated images and recycled footage began flooding social media, showing fake photos of Nicolás Maduro being escorted by US law enforcement, jubilant crowds in Caracas and videos of missiles over the city. The fabricated

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Mercedes unveils all-electric CLA with 374-mile range and compact profile

SAN FRANCISCO—Mercedes-Benz has introduced an all-electric CLA that leans toward conventional four-door coupe styling rather than the distinctive shapes of its earlier EQ models. Despite its familiar look, the CLA packs new technology: a modern electric powertrain driving the wheels, four powerful networked computers and on-board AI. Mercedes says

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Microsoft to retire RC4 cipher after decade of deprecation efforts

Microsoft said it has steadily worked over the past decade to deprecate the RC4 cipher and now has the flexibility to kill it outright, company engineers wrote in a public account of the effort. Steve Syfuhs, who runs Microsoft’s Windows Authentication team, said the work was difficult because RC4

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Nvidia to Ship Vera Rubin AI Chip; Mercedes to Offer Cars with Its Self-Driving Tech

At the CES conference in Las Vegas, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said the company will begin shipping a new A.I. chip called the Vera Rubin later this year and that Mercedes-Benz will start shipping cars equipped with Nvidia self-driving technology comparable to Tesla’s Autopilot. The Vera Rubin,

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Pentagon and A.I. firms rely on China for batteries, prompting U.S. concern

Officials in Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley and at the Pentagon say U.S. artificial‑intelligence operations and military systems are increasingly dependent on batteries sourced from China. Experts and industry data cited in the report say China dominates key steps in the lithium‑ion supply chain: the International

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Nvidia unveils Rubin supercomputing platform to cut LLM costs

Nvidia used a CES 2026 press conference to introduce Rubin, a new AI supercomputing platform the company says is designed to reduce the cost of training and running large language models. According to Nvidia, Rubin can deliver up to a 10x reduction in inference token costs and requires four times