Proponents of nuclear fusion have long promised to create nearly limitless power here on earth by harnessing the same reaction that powers the sun. Today, fusion’s biggest hurdle is ensuring that any fusion power plant produces more power than it needs to operate. The second is ensuring that it has …...Read More

A security researcher says he found a flaw in a traffic light controller that would potentially allow malicious hackers to change the lights and create traffic jams. Andrew Lemon, a researcher at cybersecurity firm Red Threat, published two blog posts on Thursday detailing his findings of a wider research project …...Read More

A nuclear fusion experiment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has set a record for the strongest steady magnetic field confining a plasma, ushering in new hope that forthcoming demonstration reactors will deliver on their promises to produce more power than they consume.. The new magnets came from Commonwealth Fusion Systems …...Read More

Coast, a startup that describes itself as “a financial services platform for the future of transportation,” has raised $40 million in Series B funding — just four months after announcing a $25 million round, the startup has told TechCrunch exclusively. Back-to-back fundraises were common prior to and during the wild …...Read More

Italy’s competition and consumer watchdog has announced an investigation into how Google gets users’ consent in order to link their activity across different services for ad profiling, saying it suspects the adtech giant of “unfair commercial practices.” At issue here is how Google obtains consent from users in the European …...Read More

Privacy app maker Proton has launched a new AI-enabled writing assistant that helps users compose emails based on simple prompts, while also capable of redrafting and proofreading an existing email before it’s sent. The launch sees Proton continue on a trajectory that has seen it replicate many of Google’s products …...Read More

Indian crypto exchange WazirX on Thursday confirmed it had suffered a security breach after about $230 million in assets were “suspiciously transferred” out of the platform earlier in the day. The Mumbai-based firm said one of its multisig wallets had suffered a security breach, and it was temporarily pausing all …...Read More

Samsung’s busy feeding its AI ambitions for its consumer devices. Earlier this year, the electronics giant said it would bring its Galaxy AI and Google’s AI model Gemini to its products, including its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy 24, and just last week, the company unveiled the latest versions of its …...Read More

A group of former Google DeepMind researchers have created an AI behavior engine that aims to transform traditional video games into a more dynamic experience by improving how non-playable characters (NPCs) behave and interact with gamers. There’s no shortage of companies using AI to generate NPCs that feel more realistic, …...Read More

What do MrBeast, John Oliver and the Wall Street Journal have in common? The transcripts of their YouTube videos have been scraped to train the AI used by companies like Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple and Salesforce. An investigation from Wired and Proof News found that this dataset, which is called YouTube …...Read More