A new video (above) out of South Korea features the field tests and interaction capabilities of KAIST Humanoid v0.7, developed at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
The impressive humanoid robot was developed at KAIST’s Dynamic Robot Control & Design Laboratory (DRCD) and deploys actuators and other technology that was developed in-house.
In the video below, you can watch the bipedal bot walk, jog, and jump in an incredibly human-like way. It also shoots a soccer ball toward a goal (disappointingly there’s no robot goalkeeper there to challenge it), and performs a perfect moonwalk along astroturf. And it was the moonwalk that created a bit of a buzz in the comments accompanying the video.
“Moonwalk was flawless,” wrote one, while another commented, “Okay all of this was impressive, but you convinced me with the moonwalk.”
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In its robotics work, KAIST deploys Physical AI, a form of AI technology that enables machines to understand and act in the physical world, helping to explain why robots such as the KAIST Humanoid v0.7 appear to move in such a human-like manner.
Instead of just “thinking in words” like typical AI, Physical AI gives machines a sense of space and timing in real environments.
Under KAIST’s broader collaborative intelligence initiative led by Young Jae Jang, the approach trains robots and systems to learn continuously through simulation and real time feedback, rather than relying only on enormous historical datasets.
Essentially, Physical AI merges brain and body by tightly integrating software intelligence with hardware such as motors and sensors so that the machines do not only compute, but also act, react, and collaborate in complex environments, whether as part of fully automated factories or in humanoid robots doing something like kicking a ball.
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Engineers are refining the KAIST Humanoid v0.7 with the aim of enhancing its mobile and dexterous capabilities, thereby building on its existing walking and dynamic movement skills. By further integrating AI with mechanical hardware, it plans to get the robot to perform more complex tasks like carrying items or operating machinery, bringing Physical AI to real-world humanoid robot applications.
KAIST is one of South Korea’s top universities and is often compared to top global tech schools like MIT in the U.S. Founded in the early 1970s to drive Korea’s scientific and technological growth, KAIST focuses heavily on research in fields such as AI, robotics, physics, and engineering.
Twitter is officially 20 years old. In another reality, that might make me kind of nostalgic. I’ve been lurking and scrolling and tweeting for 16 years; most of my adult life. There was a time when Twitter was a place where some internet strangers became my IRL friends, when I was excited to “live-tweet”. When my infinitely more well-adjusted friends would send me memes, I would smugly say “I saw that on Twitter days ago.”
Twitter stopped being that place a long time ago, but I don’t have any nostalgia for it. I don’t really feel anything at all, actually.
Because I can already hear the comments: Yes, I’m still on X. I don’t spend as much time there as I did a decade ago, but it’s still quite a lot of time, an unhealthy amount, if I’m being honest. My job is to report on social media companies, so I keep (doom)scrolling. That’s what I tell myself anyway.
A few of my favorite posters are still around. Dril’s still got it. The memes are still, occasionally, good, even though X’s recommendation algorithm seems to prefer pointing me toward endless AI slop, boring hot takes from thirsty mid-tier tech execs and blatant engagement bait. X’s algorithm — what little we can learn about it, anyway — now relies on Grok’s predictions about what you’ll like.The same Holocaust-loving Grok that has spewed racism and referred to itself as MechaHitler and declared Elon Musk “the single greatest person in modern history.” The same Grok that allegedly generated thousands of images of child abuse material. Hey @grok is that true?
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X is not Twitter but it’s also not not-Twitter. Last year, an online marketplace startup bought the 560-pound Twitter bird that once adorned the company’s San Francisco office and blew it up in a Nevada desert surrounded by Tesla CyberTrucks as part of an elaborate publicity stunt. Dumb? Yes. But also a somehow fitting adieu for “Larry.”
It’s been 20 years since Jack Dorsey sent the first-ever tweet, which was never even a good tweet anyway. It’s been five years, by the way, since he turned that tweet into an NFT (remember NFTs??) and auctioned it for nearly $3 million. It’s now functionally worthless. Another chapter in Dorsey’s confusing, complicated legacy.
In this week’s “Sunday Reboot,” AirPods Max 2 stretches the definition of the spec-bump update, the MotionVFX acquisition could benefit Creator Studio, and even more Apple celebrations.
MotionVFX, AirPods Max 2, and a performance in China.
Sunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days. All to get the next week underway with a good first step. This week, Apple lost in court but avoided another Apple Watch ban over blood oxygen patents, was dragged into a legal fight over AI data sourcing, and it came under fire for blocking some vibe coding apps in iOS. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Cars have become more than a commuter’s tool. For many, they have sentimental value, hold memories, and create new experiences and connections. When one man’s beloved 2017 C7 Corvette was destroyed by carjackers, his life was turned upside down.
Virginia outlet ABC 8News first reported on Keith Kunze’s dream car turned nightmare. The Henrico County resident had sold his first C7 Corvette back when his young family was growing. However, he decided to buy another C7 when he came back from Afghanistan as a birthday gift to himself. “This car was exactly what I wanted. It was black inside, black outside, black rims,” Kunze recalled. “And the top came off and it was a manual.”
On October 19th, 2025, Kunze walked out of his apartment to see that his dream car was missing. He wondered if he parked it in a weird spot, unable to believe it was gone. Unfortunately, the Corvette had been stolen. The Richmond Police Department found it in Scott’s Addition, a neighborhood just under 10 miles away, but it was heavily damaged. The paint was destroyed by raw eggs, the roof was missing, and various parts were destroyed. “I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around it because it’s…so much damage,” Kunze said.
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Can insurance cover damage from a carjacking?
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Insurance covers car theft if you have comprehensive coverage, which covers all things non-collision. If your car was carjacked and never recovered, car insurance will pay for the stolen vehicle, and some policies will even cover customization and aftermarket parts if you have additional coverage — like custom parts and equipment (CPE) coverage.
If you recover the car, like Kunze did, insurance may cover any vandalism. But there’s a limit on how much customization will be covered, especially if you don’t have the CPE. At Progressive, for example, comprehensive coverage insures up to $1,000 in repairs and custom parts, so anything above that would require CPE coverage. Kunze claims that he put $20,000 into his car while he repaired it for three months, something that he stated his insurance won’t cover — so it’s likely he didn’t have more extensive coverage.
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Various insurance companies likely have their own processes, but in most instances, you’ll need to contact your insurance company immediately upon recovering the car. In Kunze’s case, he had proof of the theft in the form of surveillance footage, which captured two masked suspects abandoning the car. Unfortunately, the thieves have still not been caught. While insurance will help repair the C7 somewhat, the emotional damage of seeing a car you put love, sweat, and tears into get destroyed is not covered so follow these steps to keep your car safe from carjackers.
The flash from my iPhone camera illuminates my dirty socks and underwear as I hold each item up for the video recording to capture clearly. As I load my smelly clothes into the washer, I tremble a bit each time the phone loudly beeps, detecting that my hands may be out of frame. Gotta see those fingers! No, I haven’t pivoted to filming some kind of fetish content to make ends meet—I’m trying the latest gig work app from DoorDash, called Tasks.
The new Tasks app from food delivery app DoorDash has nothing to do with delivering food—it’s all about gathering training data from humans, that’s you, for improving generative AI models and humanoid robots. “This data helps AI and robotic systems understand the physical world,” reads DoorDash’s press release. “Pay is shown upfront and determined based on effort and complexity of the activity.” Most of the gigs involve strapping a smartphone to your chest and recording your hands performing specific tasks.
This kind of video data can be used by developers of AI models and robotics to improve performance. For example, thousands of videos of people folding laundry, with their hands clearly visible, could help teach a robot how to do the same task using computer vision.
Photograph: Reece Rogers
DoorDash plans to expand this service to include an even wider range of tasks and users in the future. It’s unclear where exactly the app is available for users at launch in the US—residents of California, New York City, Seattle, and Colorado are explicitly blocked from using Tasks. (I was able to use the Tasks app and complete gigs while residing in Kansas.)
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Curious about what kinds of tasks DoorDash is offering right now, I signed up to be a “dasher” and downloaded the Tasks app. After logging in, the onboarding quest was to film yourself moving three objects across a table. Easy! I turned the camera on and shifted my coffee cup, pen, and laptop from one side of my desk to the other. My reward for this wasn’t cash—DoorDash shipped a free body-mount for my smartphone camera afterward, so I could complete more gigs in the app.
After that quick onboarding session, I could see the full list of potential jobs and start making some cash. The gigs currently available in the Tasks app mainly fall into five major categories: household chores, handiwork projects, cooking food, location navigation, and foreign language conversations.
The tasks within these categories are fairly broad. The chore list includes everything from making a bed and loading a dishwasher to repotting plants and taking out the trash. The handiwork projects range from simple tasks, like changing a lightbulb, to more complex ones, like pouring cement. The cooking gigs mostly revolve around eggs: frying them, poaching them, scrambling them. Navigation gigs include exploring a museum and walking around an apartment complex. For the language-based tasks, the app requests “natural conversations” in Russian and Mandarin Chinese, as well as other languages.
An international law enforcement action called Operation Alice has shut down over 373,000 dark web sites that offered fake CSAM packages.
The investigation, led by Germany and supported by Europol, began in mid-2021 and focused on a platform called “Alice with Violence CP,” operated by a 35-year-old suspect based in China.
These sites advertised child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and cybercrime-as-a-service offerings, including stolen credit card data and access to compromised systems.
Seizure banner on one of the scam sites Source: Europol
According to Europol, the sites used showed previews of claimed CSAM “packages” to trick users into entering their email addresses and paying between EUR 17 and EUR 250 in Bitcoin, receiving nothing in return.
“Each package had an estimated cost of between EUR 17 and EUR 215, and promised data volumes ranging from a few gigabytes to several terabytes of CSAM,” explains Europol.
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“However, these were purely fraudulent sites where CSAM was advertised and previewed but never delivered.”
The fraudulent CSAM platform fooled around 10,000 users into paying roughly $400,000 to the operator of the sites. Of those, the authorities have identified 440 users in 23 countries, and are currently investigating 100 of them.
Although these people never received the illegal material, they still tried to purchase CSAM, financially supporting child abuse and demonstrating criminal intent. Even attempting to buy such material is prosecuted in many jurisdictions.
At its peak, the scam network’s infrastructure comprised 287 servers, with a significant portion (105) located in Germany, all of which have now been seized. German authorities have also issued an international arrest warrant for the Chinese operator.
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Europol highlights its broader child protection work, including the Help4U support platform launched in November 2025, and its “Stop Child Abuse – Trace an Object” initiative, which invites people to identify the origin of objects seen in CSAM material that may lead to the identification of perpetrators, and the saving of children from abuse.
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The 3DFX Voodoo was not the first dedicated 3D graphics chipset by any means, but it became the favourite for gamers among the early mass-market GPUs. It would be found on a 3D-processing-only PCI card that sat on the feature connector of your SVGA card. The Voodoo took any game that supported its Glide API into the world of (for the time) smooth and beautiful 3D. They’re worth a bit now, but if you don’t fancy forking out for mid-’90s silicon in 2026, there’s another option. [Francisco Ayala Le Brun] has implemented the 3DFX Voodoo 1 in SpinalHDL for FPGAs.
The write-up goes into the Voodoo’s architecture. Where the parts of a modern GPU are programmable for the various functions it can do, in this part they are dedicated hardware functions for the various graphics tricks the chip can perform. Implementing such an architecture on an FPGA led to bugs and timing problems, and the write-up deals with that in detail.
The whole thing can be found in a GitHub repository if you’re curious, and is definitely worth a read for anyone interested in 1990s retrocomputing. 3DFX themselves would eventually be swallowed by Nvidia, a rival whose offerings would overtake them at the end of the ’90s, but they still represent a somewhat special moment. Don’t forget, if you have the real thing, you can probably upgrade its memory.
Microsoft Azure Monitor alerts are being abused to send callback phishing emails that impersonate warnings from the Microsoft Security Team about unauthorized charges on your account.
Azure Monitor is Microsoft’s cloud-based monitoring service that collects and analyzes data from Azure resources, applications, and infrastructure. It enables users to track performance, notify about billing changes, detect issues, and trigger alerts based on various conditions.
Over the past month, numerous people have reported receiving Azure Monitor alerts warning of suspicious charges or invoice activity on their accounts, urging them to call an enclosed phone number.
“Alert rule description MICROSOFT CORPORATION BILLING AND ACCOUNT SECURITY NOTICE (REF: MS-FRA-6673829-KP). Our system has detected a potentially unauthorized charge on your account. Transaction Details: Merchant: Windows Defender. Transaction ID: PP456-887A-22B. Amount: 389.90 USD. Date: 03/05/2026l,” reads the fake billing alert.
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“For your protection, this transaction has been temporarily placed on hold by our Fraud Detection Team. To prevent possible account suspension or additional fees, please verify this transaction immediately. If you did NOT authorize this payment, contact our 24/7 Microsoft Account Security Support at +1 (864) 347-2494 or +1 (864) 347-4846.”
“We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your prompt response. Microsoft Account Security Team.”
Microsoft Azure Monitor alert used in a callback phishing scam Source: BleepingComputer
Unlike other phishing campaigns, these messages are not spoofed, but are sent directly by the Microsoft Azure Monitor platform using the legitimate azure-noreply@microsoft.com email address.
As the emails are sent through Microsoft’s legitimate email platforms, they pass SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email security checks, making them appear more trustworthy.
The threat actors are conducting this campaign by creating alerts in Azure Monitor for easily triggered conditions, such as new orders, payments, generated invoices, and other billing events.
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When creating alerts, you can enter any message you want in the description field, which the attackers use to put their callback phishing message.
Description field when creating an Azure Monitor alert Source: Microsoft
These alerts are then configured to send emails to what is believed to be a mailing list under the attacker’s control, which forwards the email to all the targeted people in the attack.
This also preserves the original Microsoft headers and authentication results, helping the emails bypass spam filters and user suspicion.
BleepingComputer has seen multiple alert categories used in this campaign, mostly using invoice and payment-themed rules designed to resemble automated billing notifications:
Azure monitor alert rule order-22455340 was resolved for invoice22455340
Azure monitor alert rule Invoice Paid INV-d39f76ef94 was resolved for invd39f76ef94
Azure monitor alert rule Payment Reference INV-22073494 was resolved for purchase22073494
Azure monitor alert rule Funds Successfully Received-ec5c7acb41 was triggered for subec5c7acb41
Azure monitor alert rule MemorySpike-9242403-A4 was triggered
Azure monitor alert rule DiskFull-3426456-A6 was triggered for locker3426456
The campaign relies on creating a sense of urgency, which in this case is the unusual $389 Windows Defender charge, to trick the users into calling the listed phone number.
While BleepingComputer did not call the number in this scam, previous callback phishing campaigns led to credential theft, payment fraud, or the installation of remote access software.
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As these emails use a more enterprise or corporate theme, they may be intended to gain initial access to corporate networks for follow-on attacks.
Users should treat any Azure or Microsoft alert that includes a phone number or urgent request to resolve billing issues with suspicion.
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The Government of Mexico City has launched Xoli, a chatbot that will provide information on services, tourism, and cultural offerings. It’s available now via WhatsApp in both English and Spanish.
The platform was designed to meet the demand of the millions of visitors expected to arrive during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. However, the authorities assure that the tool will remain active once the sporting event is over, with the aim of promoting economic activities and facilitating access to public services in the capital.
In a press conference, Clara Brugada, head of the Mexico City government, stated that Xoli “will be the technological instrument that will allow us to link culture, tourism, recreation, and entertainment with the population.”
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The tool was developed entirely by the capital’s government, as a result of the collaboration between the Digital Agency for Public Innovation and the local Ministries of Tourism and Culture.
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The chatbot is already available on mobile devices and will operate continuously, seven days a week, 24 hours a day. To use it, just open WhatsApp, start a chat with the number 55 6565 9395, and send the word “Hola.”
Xoli (pronounced sho-lee) will immediately ask if you want to continue in English or Spanish. After selecting the preferred language, users will be able to access a menu with various categories of information, including culture, tourism, gastronomy, and mobility, or just ask a question about anything in the city.
In the context of the 2026 World Cup, there will be a specific section with information about the competition, including special events, match details, broadcasts of games in public places, and ticket purchase options.
Screenshot of Xoli, Mexico City’s tourist chatbot for the 2026 World Cup.
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The capital’s government highlighted that this technology contributes to the city’s consolidation as “a more innovative and accessible city,” by speeding up access to official information, offering timely responses and strengthening tourism promotion strategies.
Alejandra Frausto, head of Mexico City’s Ministry of Tourism, pointed out that close to 3,000 tourist, recreational, and cultural activities are carried out daily in the capital. In seasons of high demand, this figure can increase to 5,000 events a day. “Translating this data into reliable and accessible information involves a great effort, but it is now possible thanks to this chatbot,” he says.
A Good Sport
The launch of Xoli adds to the technological efforts driven by the federal government to turn the upcoming World Cup into an engine of development for commerce, sports, tourism, and culture throughout the country.
Late last year, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum presented the Mexico 2026 Social World Cup plan, which calls for more than 177 festivities and 5,000 activities linked to the tournament, as well as 74 tournaments and soccer cups aimed at students, workers, and the general public. The program also includes around 1,500 actions within the Vive Saludable (Live Healthy) initiative, aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles, as well as the rehabilitation of 4,200 public sports fields and spaces.
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Among the actions announced is the creation of the Conoce México app developed jointly by the Agency for Digital Transformation and Telecommunications (ATDT) and the Ministry of Tourism. This app will allow fans, both national and foreign, to get updated information on matches, venues, routes, services, and cultural activities.
The war withIran and ensuing blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping lane, has spiked oil prices and sent governments scrabbling for their reserves. How high will prices go, and how bad could it get?
On Friday night, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby published a memo to his employees showing that his very fuel-dependent business is prepping for a very long fallout. “Our plans assume oil goes to $175/barrel and doesn’t get back down to $100/barrel until the end of 2027,” he wrote.
Jet fuel accounts for between a quarter and a third of airlines’ operating costs. Prices have doubled from $70 a barrel since the war started four weeks ago, threatening to seriously cut into airlines’ profitability. Kirby said that his airline has a strategy: United will cut some 5 percent of its planned flight schedule during the second and third quarters of this year, with trims coming especially in off-peak periods like red-eyes and less popular travel days: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.
“Honestly, I think there’s a good chance it won’t be that bad,” Kirby wrote in the memo, “but … there isn’t much downside for us to prepare for that outcome.”
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United’s moves are significant for not only the travel industry but the wider global economy, analysts say. If it all plays out the way Kirby predicts, “this would be incredibly unwelcome news to everyone who is not in the oil refining business,” says Jason Miller, a professor of supply chain management at Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business.
Airlines might be a particularly notable canary in the economic coal mine because their business leans even more heavily on oil prices, and especially refined oil prices, than most. Air transportation ranks just below asphalt paving as the US industry that spends the greatest share of its non-labor costs on refined petroleum products, Miller has calculated. Kirby’s predictions, while dire, are in line with what others in the commodity market are predicting, Miller says.
“Economically, this energy shock is hitting at the worst time possible,” Miller says. Add its effects to a sluggish job market and a global economy shaken by the US’s erratic tariff regime, and economists start to think about recession. The Iran war and the ensuing energy crisis “have played out longer than many expected it to,” Miller says. Kirby’s memo is an acknowledgment that “Hormuz may not be open for business very quickly.”
The effects of the fuel price spikes are already affecting the travel industry. Last week, American Airlines CEO Robert Isom said the company had spent an additional $400 million on fuel. Airlines have reported strong demand in the past weeks, with United’s Kirby noting in his memo that the past 10 weeks had seen the airline take in the most revenue on bookings ever. But it remains to be seen whether lots of people are actually enthusiastic about travel, or flyers spooked about geopolitics and fears of high ticket prices moved early to lock in their plans before oil costs got higher. Isom noted that, if oil prices remain high, “we’re certainly going to be nimble in terms of capacity, to make sure that supply and demand stay in balance.”
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How bad it could get for airlines—and its passengers—depends not just on how long oil prices stay elevated, but how long the businesses’ questions about the crisis remain unanswered.
“If we stay in this uncertainty for a long time, this is adding to the complexity,” says Ahmed Abdelghany, who studies airline operations as a professor in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s College of Business. “The longer it goes, the more problematic to the airlines that remain.”
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