Researchers unveil RoboBallet, an AI system designed to help teams of industrial robots work together without colliding
Specialized AI for scalable and adaptive multi-robot orchestration
Led by researchers at Google DeepMind Robotics, and through a long-term collaboration with Intrinsic - we are unveiling advanced AI research that enables fully automated, collision-free coordination for multiple industrial robots performing tasks tog…www.intrinsic.ai
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute have developed a large behavior model that enables more natural movement and “emergent skills” in humanoid robots
AI-Powered Robot by Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute Takes a Key Step Towards General-Purpose Humanoids - Toyota USA Newsroom
BOSTON (Aug. 20, 2025) - Today, Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a big step forward in robotics and artificial intelligence research: demonstrating a Large Behavior Model (LBM) powering the Atlas humanoid robot.Melissa Faulner (Toyota USA Newsroom)
Huawei to yank battery energy storage systems from UK
Huawei's battery energy storage systems run out of juice in the UK
Exclusive: Sources say decision to pull products takes effect from end of 2025Paul Kunert (The Register)
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Mark Zuckerberg sues Meta - but he's not who you think
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Mark Zuckerberg sues Meta - but he's not who you think
Indiana bankruptcy lawyer Mark S Zuckerberg says his Facebook account is "constantly hacked", businesses refuse to take his bookings and he gets constant requests online for money or favours aimed at the billionaire Meta founder.Mickey Carroll (Sky News)
Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO
Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO
An Indiana attorney is suing Meta for repeatedly shutting down his Facebook pagesEce Yildirim (Gizmodo)
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Clingy chatbots, AI recruiters and other new research findings
New AI research roundup: chatbots, fairness, and more - Rest of World
We reviewed the latest academic studies on AI recruiters, emotionally manipulative chatbots, fairness challenges, and how AI is reshaping jobs and society.Rina Chandran (Rest of World)
Scammers Exploit Grok AI With Video Ad Scam to Push Malware on X
Have you noticed how malicious links are now being "𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐤𝐞𝐝"?
X won't allow links in promoted posts to fight malvertising. Yet scammers love the challenge and trick X’s AI to amplify the same links that should've been blocked!
This is "𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠"
Malvertisers run “video card” promoted posts with mostly sketchy “adult” content baits (how these even pass X's review is a mystery!)
The malicious link is hidden in the tiny "𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦:" field below the video player. There is no malicious link scanning whatsoever on X! Yet, it is still barely noticeable at this spot. It is not really a good malvertising practice, just yet...
Meanwhile, these posts reach 100k to 5M+ impressions through paid promotion! 💰
Then comes the twist. Scammers turn to 𝐀𝐬𝐤 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐤!
They ask something like: "𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦?" 😏
Grok reads the promoted post and finds the “From” field, using it in its reply 👉 This time, the malicious link is fully visible, clickable, and impossible to miss. Adding to that, it is now amplified in SEO and domain reputation - after all, it was echoed by Grok on a post with millions of impressions! 🤯
So what happened?
A malicious link that X explicitly prohibits in ads (and should have blocked entirely!) suddenly appears in a post by the system-trusted Grok account, sitting under a viral promoted thread and spreading straight into millions of feeds and search results!
👉 The system meant to enforce restrictions gets bypassed, and the AI itself becomes the amplifier! 🤖
And the links? They lead through shady ad networks, monetizing clicks with “direct links” that are known to push Fake captcha scam, Info stealer malware and other shady grey-area content
Really, grok? Don’t you check your links before you “grok” them?
Head of Guardio Labs, Nati Tal, post on X/Twitter.
Climate change turns Pakistan’s summer oases into deadly flood zones
The mountain retreats where Pakistanis go to escape the stifling summer heat have been inundated this year by floods, another product of climate change.
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New Electron Flaw Allows Backdooring Signal, 1Password, and Slack
Subverting code integrity checks to locally backdoor Signal, 1Password, Slack, and more
A vulnerability in Electron applications allows attackers to bypass code integrity checks by tampering with V8 heap snapshot files, enabling local backdoors in applications like Signal, 1Password, and Slack.Darius Houle (The Trail of Bits Blog)
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Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown
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Nonfarm payrolls increased by just 22,000 for the month, lower than the 75,000 forecast, while the unemployment rate rose to 4.3%.
The report showed a marked slowdown from the July increase of 79,000, which was revised up by 6,000. Revisions also showed a net loss of 13,000 in June.
Health care again led by sectors, adding 31,000 jobs, while social assistance contributed 16,000. Wholesale trade and manufacturing both saw declines of 12,000 on the month.
Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 75,000 in August while the unemployment rate edged up tp 4.3%.Jeff Cox (CNBC)
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Why Putin is winning
Why Putin is winning
Last week's summit revealed just how little leverage the US has, while Europe looks panicked, and Zelensky is painted into a cornerJennifer Kavanagh (Responsible Statecraft)
UC Berkeley’s Rhagobot: Water Strider Robot Harnesses Surface Tension for Speed
Researchers from UC Berkeley, Ajou University, and Georgia Tech unveiled Rhagobot in 2025, a tiny aquatic robot inspired by water striders of the genus Rhagovelia[^1]. The robot features self-deploying fan-like structures on its legs that harness surface tension for propulsion, mimicking the insects' ability to move rapidly across water surfaces[^2].The 8 cm long robot weighs just 0.2 grams and uses passive fan mechanisms that unfurl in 0.01 seconds without requiring muscle power[^3]. These fans, measuring 10 by 5 mm, enable the robot to achieve speeds of two body lengths per second and execute 90-degree turns in under half a second[^4].
According to Professor Je-Sung Koh from Ajou University, "Our robotic fans self-morph using nothing but water surface forces and flexible geometry, just like their biological counterparts. It is a form of mechanical intelligence refined by nature through millions of years of evolution"[^5].
The breakthrough came from studying the water striders' fan architecture using electron microscopy, which revealed that surface tension alone powers the fan deployment - contrary to previous assumptions about muscle activation[^4]. This passive mechanism reduces power consumption compared to motorized alternatives, making it promising for environmental monitoring and search-and-rescue applications[^3].
[^1]: WebProNews - UC Berkeley's Rhagobot: Water Strider Robot Harnesses Surface Tension for Speed
[^2]: Heise - Inspired by water striders: self-unfolding fans make the 'Rhagobot' agile
[^3]: Future Tech on Instagram
[^4]: New Atlas - Robotic water strider rows itself forward by fanning feathery feet
[^5]: Heise - Inspired by water striders: self-unfolding fans make the 'Rhagobot' agile
Robotic water strider rows itself forward by fanning feathery feet
Although we've seen many robotic water striders over the years, scientists are still finding new aspects of the insects to replicate. Recently, for instance, researchers created a strider-bot that zips across the water's surface via fans on its feet.Ben Coxworth (New Atlas)
“I didn’t hear the usual grinding of ice”
“I didn’t hear the usual grinding of ice”
When a Norwegian vessel reached the North Pole this week, the scientific team made an alarming discovery.Elizaveta Vereykina (thebarentsobserver)
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DOJ plans to label trans Americans as "mentally defective" to take away their guns
Justice Department leadership is prepared to use its rule-making authority to declare transgender people as mentally ill and deprive them of their Second Amendment right to possess firearms, according to two Justice officials who shared internal discussions with CNN.
Deliberations at the highest levels of the DOJ follow the recent mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, an attack police say was carried out by a 23-year-old former student at the church’s school who may have been a transgender person or a de-transitioned individual. Two children were killed in the attack, and 21 others were injured.
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Amazon's strict RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document and insiders
Amazon's strict return-to-office policy and relocation demands are hindering recruitment, affecting its ability to attract top tech talent.
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They blew up a boat far offshore, killed eleven people, and called it justice
Lives erased in the Caribbean, wrapped in a White House video and sold as victory
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Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes
For years, I relied on Spotify like millions of others. The convenience was undeniable stream anything, anywhere, discover new music through algorithms, and share playlists with friends. But over time, several issues became impossible to ignore: artists getting paid fractions of pennies per stream, fake Artists and ghost Tracks, AI music and impersonation, creepy age verification complicity and the fact that despite paying monthly, I never actually owned anything. So I decided to take back control of my music experience. Here's how I built my own self-hosted music streaming setup that gives me everything Spotify offered and more.
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I understand the author's intent to support artists by purchasing their music on various platforms, but by using Sabnzbd to download music from Usenet, this is essentially a guide to pirate music. The only thing in this setup that isn't automated is purchasing the albums, and at one point the author says he uses Sabnzbd to download from Bandcamp. No, he doesn't, that's impossible; Sabnzbd is a Usenet client and nothing more.
I applaud the author for trying to be honest and support his favorite artists with legal purchases to justify his use of these apps, and it's a great setup. But let's not pretend that most people following this guide will actually legally purchase any music they download once they see how seamless and fun it is to pirate it.
And I say all of that as someone who has a similar setup with Lidarr and Sabnzbd, I am not judging anyone who chooses to pirate music. And I do purchase actual physical albums of some of the music I download so I can support my favorite artists. I just wanted to call out the author for being a bit disingenuous about his setup.
<...> at one point the author says he uses Sabnzbd to download from Bandcamp.
He does? I can't find that reference.
UC Berkeley’s Rhagobot: Water Strider Robot Harnesses Surface Tension for Speed
Researchers from UC Berkeley, Ajou University, and Georgia Tech unveiled Rhagobot in 2025, a tiny aquatic robot inspired by water striders of the genus Rhagovelia1. The robot features self-deploying fan-like structures on its legs that harness surface tension for propulsion, mimicking the insects' ability to move rapidly across water surfaces2.
The 8 cm long robot weighs just 0.2 grams and uses passive fan mechanisms that unfurl in 0.01 seconds without requiring muscle power3. These fans, measuring 10 by 5 mm, enable the robot to achieve speeds of two body lengths per second and execute 90-degree turns in under half a second4.
According to Professor Je-Sung Koh from Ajou University, "Our robotic fans self-morph using nothing but water surface forces and flexible geometry, just like their biological counterparts. It is a form of mechanical intelligence refined by nature through millions of years of evolution"5.
The breakthrough came from studying the water striders' fan architecture using electron microscopy, which revealed that surface tension alone powers the fan deployment - contrary to previous assumptions about muscle activation4. This passive mechanism reduces power consumption compared to motorized alternatives, making it promising for environmental monitoring and search-and-rescue applications3.
- WebProNews - UC Berkeley's Rhagobot: Water Strider Robot Harnesses Surface Tension for Speed ↩︎
- Heise - Inspired by water striders: self-unfolding fans make the 'Rhagobot' agile ↩︎
- Future Tech on Instagram ↩︎ ↩︎
- New Atlas - Robotic water strider rows itself forward by fanning feathery feet ↩︎ ↩︎
- Heise - Inspired by water striders: self-unfolding fans make the 'Rhagobot' agile ↩︎
Robotic water strider rows itself forward by fanning feathery feet
Although we've seen many robotic water striders over the years, scientists are still finding new aspects of the insects to replicate. Recently, for instance, researchers created a strider-bot that zips across the water's surface via fans on its feet.Ben Coxworth (New Atlas)
SAP to invest €20B in European sovereign cloud push
German giant takes aim at US hyperscaler dominance as some EU customers fret amid Trump 2.0 rhetoric
SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push
: German giant takes aim at US hyperscaler dominance as some EU customers fret amid Trump 2.0 rhetoricLindsay Clark (The Register)
Send in your questions for the Guardian’s climate assembly panel
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On Tuesday 16 September, a Guardian panel of experts will be looking to answer questions about the forces driving the pushback against a greener world.We want to hear from our readers globally as not everyone can make the live event. Send in your climate crisis questions and we will put a selection of them to our panel on the day.
Send in your questions for the Guardian’s climate assembly panel
We would like to hear your questions about the climate crisis and we will put a selection of them to our panelGuardian community team (The Guardian)
Switzerland Launches Apertus: A Public, Open-Source AI Model Built for Privacy
The Swiss have unveiled Apertus, a fully open-source, multilingual LLM built with transparency, inclusiveness, and compliance at its core.
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Unions refuse to let Labour off the hook, joining forces to demand 'Wages not Weapons'
When it comes to investment in death and destruction abroad, the money is always found, says the Wages Not Weapons campaign
Susan Collins Advanced Trump Tax Bill After Receiving $2 Million from Private Equity Billionaire
As her populist opponent attacks her ties to Wall Street, Rolling Stone has revealed that Maine Sen. Susan Collins got a $2 million donation from a private equity billionaire the day before making a key vote to advance Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.
Susan Collins Advanced Trump Tax Bill After Receiving $2 Million from Private Equity Billionaire
The five-term Maine senator's populist opponent has seized on her ties to Wall Street, saying: "I don't think private equity deserves more time with a senator than someone who works two jobs to get by."stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
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Texas lawsuit over cocoa “laced” with abortion drug gets even wilder
Marine accused of slipping abortion pills into his ex’s drink claims she made the whole thing up.
Belgian Foreign Minister: EU credibility on the line over Gaza
Belgian Foreign Minister Maxine Prévot has told Euronews that the EU's foreign policy is "collapsing" due to member states' inability to sanction Israel.
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China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers to manipulate Google results
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36914853
China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers to manipulate Google results
GhostRedirector poisons Windows servers: Backdoors with a side of Potatoes
ESET researchers have identified a new threat actor targeting Windows servers with a passive C++ backdoor and a malicious IIS module that manipulates Google search results.www.welivesecurity.com
China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers to manipulate Google results
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36914853
China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers to manipulate Google results
GhostRedirector poisons Windows servers: Backdoors with a side of Potatoes
ESET researchers have identified a new threat actor targeting Windows servers with a passive C++ backdoor and a malicious IIS module that manipulates Google search results.www.welivesecurity.com
Kristi Noem Gets Mad About CBS Not Broadcasting Her Bullshit About Kilmar Abrego Garcia
You don’t often see blackmail victims extending offers to their blackmailers to sit down and discuss political issues, but that’s what happened when CBS — who recently paid off Trump to settle a lawsuit the broadcaster could have won — invited Kristi Noem to talk out of her perfectly coiffed ass for most of an hour last Sunday.
Kristi Noem Gets Mad About CBS Not Broadcasting Her Bullshit About Kilmar Abrego Garcia
You don’t often see blackmail victims extending offers to their blackmailers to sit down and discuss political issues, but that’s what happened when CBS — who recently paid off Tr…Techdirt
OpenAI(ChatGPT Developer) CEO, Sam Altman, suggests the Dead Internet Theory might be correct
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Samuel Harris Gibstine Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and chief executive officer of OpenAI since 2019. He is considered one of the leading figures of the AI boom.
Altman dropped out of Stanford University after two years and founded Loopt, a mobile social networking service, raising more than $30 million in venture capital. In 2011, Altman joined Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, and was its president from 2014 to 2019. In 2019, he became CEO of OpenAI and oversaw the successful launch of ChatGPT in 2022. He was ousted from the role by the company's board in 2023 due to a lack of confidence in his leadership, but was reinstated five days later following significant backlash from employees and investors, after which a new board was formed. He has served as chairman of clean energy companies Helion Energy and Oklo (until April 2025). Altman's net worth was estimated at $1.8 billion as of July 2025.
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This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.
I first wrote about Farahi’s case in 2009, when it was one of the earliest public examples of the FBI using immigration to recruit Muslim informants. At the time, the FBI denied the practice outright. As other journalists uncovered similar cases, the FBI continued to deny.
Farahi’s fight with the government began in November 2004. As he walked home from evening prayers in North Miami Beach, he saw two men waiting outside his apartment. They introduced themselves as FBI agents.
The country was still in the grip of post-9/11 panic, and the agents wanted information about two men who had attended Farahi’s mosque: José Padilla, the so-called “dirty bomber” accused of plotting to set off a crude radioactive device, and Adnan El Shukrijumah, a Saudi national who became a high-ranking member of Al Qaeda after leaving the U.S.
Farahi said he’d talk, but only in the open. He wanted his congregation to know why he was speaking to the FBI. The federal agents wanted something very different: secrecy. “I can’t,” he told them. To him, becoming an informant would have meant betraying his faith community. “People trust you as a religious figure, and you’re trying to kind of deceive them,” Farahi said to me years ago, when I first asked him about his encounter with the FBI. “That’s where the problem is.”
Years later, FBI agent Terry Albury leaked internal documents to The Intercept, confirming what Farahi’s case had suggested: using immigration as leverage wasn’t a rogue practice, but rather had been codified in the pages of the FBI’s internal policy manuals.
FBI agents were even tasked under official policy with helping deport informants who were “no longer suitable for use” — an acknowledgment that the policy goal wasn’t transactional so much as coercive.
This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.
Foad Farahi had resisted the FBI since the George W. Bush administration. Under Trump, ICE rounded him up.Trevor Aaronson (The Intercept)
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Genitori, la Colpa è Vostra: L'Errore che Facciamo con gli Smartphone
Non servono regole ferree, ma un "patto di famiglia" basato sul buon senso e sull'esempio. Insegnare a vivere offline per vivere meglio anche online è la vera soluzione. Sei pronto a invertire la rotta e a guidare i tuoi figli verso un rapporto sano con la** tecnologia? **
Al via nuovo anno scolastico: il benessere tra i banchi-Limitare l’uso dei dispositivi digitali e sfruttare il tempo libero in modo produttivo (1)
www.newsmadeinitaly.itA cominciare da questo servizio di Giuliano Marchese, divulgatore medico scientifico, l'informazione di "Newsmadeinitaly" intende dare un contributo alla comprensione di tematiche legate allo sviluppo psico-fisico delle ragazze e dei ragaz…
Texas Republican Party sues state to end open primaries
Texas GOP sues Secretary of State to close primary elections
Currently, any Texas voter can cast a ballot in GOP primaries. The party wants to limit eligibility to registered members.Ayden Runnels (The Texas Tribune)
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Anthropic bans companies majority-controlled by China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea from Claude
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Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.www.anthropic.com
Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
How the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI.Josh Dzieza (The Verge)
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China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers to manipulate Google results
GhostRedirector poisons Windows servers: Backdoors with a side of Potatoes
ESET researchers have identified a new threat actor targeting Windows servers with a passive C++ backdoor and a malicious IIS module that manipulates Google search results.www.welivesecurity.com
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Niger will be Africa's fastest-growing economy in 2025, says World Bank
The Sahel country has been experiencing a rift with France and the West since the new government took office on July 26, 2023
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in reply to MrMakabar • • •Maintaining a satellite means expenses. If the funding is cut, the organisation and the people maintaining the satellites and the associated ground infrastructure won't get paid for it. Most of us aren't financially secure enough to do voluntary work as a day job.
Selling them to a different agency would mean that the buyer would also have to allocate resources to maintaining them. Not something that happens at any relevant timescales and it would be away from something else. And transferring the knowledge and skills would be a training operation in its own right.
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in reply to silence7 • • •Great idea
Just bury your head in the sand. If you can't see, hear or know about global warming and extreme weather, it won't bother you (unless you get directly hit with a tornado or hurricane)
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in reply to silence7 • • •For people who may not know, even a small satellite (not counting starlink's disposable suitcase ones) usually takes 5-10 YEARS to even build at the very minimum. If we were to also include the development, testing, and launch; the time could easily double that.
So, what he's doing is much, much worse; he's trying to create a legacy of destruction that would take multiple generations to even get back to where we were before he got his mealy hands on everything.