The Canadian government introduced legislation on Monday to overhaul the country’s private-sector privacy laws, including new restrictions on businesses that use personal data to charge individual consumers higher prices. Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, would replace the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, a law first enacted in 1998 that […]

Xiaomi has unveiled a robotic charging arm designed for residential garages that automatically plugs and unplugs an electric vehicle without any owner intervention. The system detects the vehicle’s position after parking, extends to the charging port, connects the cable, and retracts it once charging is complete or a preset battery level is reached. Xiaomi is […]

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said the company will ship supervised point-to-point self-driving on all of its second-generation vehicles and the R2 later this year, describing the capability as “very similar to Tesla’s FSD.” Speaking at the Masters of Scale event in Anaheim on Thursday, Scaringe laid out a three-stage autonomy roadmap: supervised point-to-point driving in […]

IMEC, the Belgian semiconductor research institute that partners with more than 600 chip industry players, has expanded its 300mm RF silicon interposer platform with three new manufacturing capabilities that bring 6G chip production closer to commercial viability. The platform achieves record-low signal loss at frequencies up to 325GHz, covering the millimetre-wave and sub-terahertz bands that […]

Three Xbox-owned studios are in active negotiations to buy themselves back from Microsoft rather than face closure, according to Bloomberg. Compulsion Games in Montreal, Double Fine Productions in San Francisco, and Ninja Theory in Cambridge, England, are each exploring deals that would make them independent again. Even if the talks succeed, many employees at all […]

Go Inc., Japan’s most widely used taxi-hailing app, begins trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday after raising ¥88.6 billion ($553 million) in the country’s largest initial public offering this year. The offering was more than 25 times oversubscribed. Investors valued the company at ¥186 billion. The IPO priced at ¥2,400 per share, the […]

A China-linked espionage group spent more than a year inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks, stealing sensitive data and defence email. The attackers got in through a backdoor on REDCap research servers. The exfiltration method was the unusual part: they rewired the victims’ own Google Workspace rules to copy matching messages to […]

Asian technology stocks surged on Monday after the United States and Iran announced a peace agreement, with AI and semiconductor companies posting the largest gains. SoftBank rose 10 per cent, SK Hynix climbed 6.42 per cent, and Samsung Electronics gained 4.5 per cent. Japan’s Nikkei 225 topped 69,000 for the first time in history. The […]

The Pentagon’s generative AI platform, GenAI.mil, now has 1.5 million daily users across the Department of Defense, according to the department’s chief technology officer. The figure represents nearly half of the DoD’s 3.5 million workforce. Six months ago, the platform had fewer than 100,000 users. Emil Michael, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, […]

A federal judge has permanently killed xAI’s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets related to the Grok chatbot. US District Judge Rita Lin dismissed the case with prejudice on Monday, meaning xAI cannot bring the same claims again. Lin said xAI failed to show that OpenAI induced former xAI senior engineer Xuechen Li to divulge confidential […]