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Briefing

AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon

Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second

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AI

AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision

Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws

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AI

Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death

Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits

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Briefing

Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs

IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships

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AI

Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests

You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?

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Space & Science

Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft?

Spin slows as orbital rescue mission creeps forward

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AI

Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it

PARTNER CONTENT: Platform engineering won the argument. Now it has to grow up fast and evolve for the AI era

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AI

Microsoft excludes Domain Exclusion from MS 365 Copilot – days after rolling it out

Perhaps an allow list of domains might be better?

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Briefing

Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice

Connor Moucka pleads guilty over sprawling 2024 campaign that looted billions of records

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Gaming

Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve

Small modifications under way as Bezos's rocket biz races to rebuild pad and fly again this year

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Briefing

European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan

Nearly three-quarters worry Washington could cut access, yet fewer than half regularly test their fallback

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Computing

IT department put sticky notes on the laptops to help employees log in

Leaving this information exposed allowed someone else to gain access

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Security

Windows 10 LTSC 2021 has five months before security updates cost extra

ESU meter starts running in January, unless you're on the IoT edition

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Briefing

Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen

Another week, another firm explaining why one of its models reached somewhere it wasn't supposed to

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AI

News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs'

Pay it for content, like OpenAI and Meta, to become 'principled' and 'honorable'

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Briefing

Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time

It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound

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Briefing

HPE extends validity of quoted hardware prices, possibly for months

Suggests Big Green knows its component prices will remain steady

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Security

Chinese router vendor denies its firmware contains backdoors – but pauses downloads to fix security issues anyway

It’s just a remote maintenance function, says Zbtlink

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AI

Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro

VMware competitor aiming for the AI datacenter

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AI

OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack

It started with an 'impossible task' and led to AI deciding it needed to act as a collective intelligence

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Briefing

Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agent

Muse Code showcases Muse Spark's fresh software engineering chops

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AI

An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse

Would you rather play Russian roulette with an LLM or put your health and safety in the hands of a professional

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Space & Science

Prompt injection isn't the bug, AI agent frameworks are

Check Point researchers tried to break the frameworks enterprises use to build AI apps. Now they're telling Black Hat attendees what they found

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AI

Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see

Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them

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AI

Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars

In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate

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AI

IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now

A critical Langflow flaw allowing RCE on default deployments is being exploited, says the CISA

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Mobile

Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas

But bobbing bit barn may be becalmed by state governor's moratorium on connecting to the grid

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AI

Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm

Redmond wants results from Copilot, not impressive-looking consumption figures

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AI

Operationalize AI at scale with HPE and NVIDIA

SPONSORED POST: The AI factory concept encompasses the new AI stack, explain HPE’s Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA’s Kaushik Shirhatti

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Space & Science

SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions

Investors balk as quarterly capex climbs to $18.4B

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Security

London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says

Met ordered to improve safeguards after two preventable data breaches

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Briefing

Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn

Anthropic said to be the client wanting to secure rent-a-GPU company's compute resources

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Briefing

Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year

Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time

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Briefing

UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack

Database backups likely stolen, potentially exposing donor, supporter, and service user details

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Briefing

Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia

Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start

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Briefing

Double trouble for Microsoft as pre-owned software license claims converge

Tribunal to explore how £270 million reseller case intersects with multibillion-pound class action

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Briefing

New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut

The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range

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Briefing

Adding an API to networking hardware doesn’t solve management challenges

This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent

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Security

AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project

Models used social engineering and collaborated among themselves to solve a security challenge

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AI

AMD's AI eggs are in too few baskets, Wall Street worries

The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first

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AI

Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller

Nearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like?

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AI

OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT

New plugins for K-12 teachers, university instructors, and college kids? Read the room, guys

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Briefing

Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages

New React framework lowers memory usage by 90%, team claims

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Computing

Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it

Claiming 'it's my server' was often enough to persuade models to help

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Security

This one time, at Hacker Summer Camp …

What to expect as BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON descend on Las Vegas

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Security

Feds get 3 days to patch N-able God mode flaw under active exploit

Experts warn hotfix not optional. MSPs warned attacker gains 'full administrative access to an N-central console'

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Computing

NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs

Exposing virtualization built into the SSD will make VM migration simpler, consortium says

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Security

AI helps Microsoft bug hunters chase a record $20M payday

Broader bounty rules added to a swelling volume of machine-assisted vulnerability reports

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