California to Ticket Robotaxis

Starting July 1, California police can issue ’notices of AV noncompliance’ to robotaxi manufacturers for traffic violations. This closes a legal loophole where driverless cars previously avoided citations because there was no licensed human driver to penalize.

AI Hiring Bias: LLMs Favor Their Own Output

Research shows LLMs consistently prefer resumes generated by themselves over human-written ones, with a bias range of 67% to 82%. This creates a systemic advantage for candidates using the same AI model as the employer’s screening tool, particularly in business fields.

FCC Bans Chinese Electronics Certification Labs

The FCC voted to strip all testing labs in China and Hong Kong of their ability to certify electronics for the US market due to national security risks. This move will likely increase certification costs and delay product launches, as manufacturers must shift to more expensive Western labs.

Russia’s ‘Information Laundromat’ Targets Wikipedia and AI

Pro-Kremlin actors are using a network of fraudulent news portals to ‘poison’ Wikipedia entries, which in turn infects the training data for AI chatbots. This allows the Russian state to distort global facts and influence AI-generated narratives regarding the war in Ukraine.

Critical ‘Copy Fail’ Linux Kernel Vulnerability

CVE-2026-31431, dubbed ‘Copy Fail,’ is a critical vulnerability affecting nearly every mainstream Linux distribution since 2017. It allows a local user to gain root access via a trivial 732-byte exploit, prompting urgent patching and the release of community-made detection scripts.

Uber’s Plan for a Global AV Sensor Grid

Uber intends to outfit its human drivers’ cars with sensors to collect real-world data for AV companies. By leveraging millions of drivers, Uber aims to become the essential ‘data layer’ for the AV industry, providing a scale of training data that individual AV companies cannot match.

VS Code Sparks Outrage Over AI Co-Author Defaults

A recent VS Code update enabled AI co-author attribution by default, leading to ‘Copilot’ being credited on commits even when the user did not use AI. This has triggered significant developer backlash, with users calling the silent default ‘vandalism’ of their commit history.