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Dec 11 • 5 months ago

A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options

Devstral 2 model scores 72% on industry benchmark, nearing proprietary rivals. ...

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Dec 08 • 5 months ago

Meta offers EU users ad-light option in push to end investigation

Facebook agrees to change "pay or consent" model after talks with European Commission. ...

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Dec 05 • 5 months ago

In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool

Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again? ...

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Dec 04 • 6 months ago

Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln

Open source React executes malicious code with malformed HTML—no authentication needed. ...

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Dec 03 • 6 months ago

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

Report: Microsoft declared "the era of AI agents" in May, but enterprise customers aren't buying. ...

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Dec 03 • 6 months ago

OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months

Three years after Google sounded alarm bells over ChatGPT, the tables have turned. ...

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Nov 26 • 6 months ago

HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use

Product development, internal operations among teams expected to be hit hardest. ...

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Nov 22 • 6 months ago

Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand

Google's AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years. ...

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Nov 22 • 6 months ago

How to know if your Asus router is one of thousands hacked by China-state hackers

So far, the hackers are laying low, likely for later use. ...

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Nov 22 • 6 months ago

Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.

Voting system required three keys. One of them has been "irretrievably lost." ...

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Nov 21 • 6 months ago

HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January. ...

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Nov 20 • 6 months ago

Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size

"I worry this is the big botnet flexing," CEO said. But outage was self-inflicted. ...

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