Gemini Breached Three Outside Systems, and Claude-Using Researchers Breached OpenAI
"Software security researchers used Anthropic's Claude AI platform to hack OpenAI's ChatGPT tool," reports CBS News.…
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Has the James Web Space Telescope Discovered a New 'Black Hole Star'?
The James Webb Space Telescope has been picking up little red dots in almost every image, writes Quanta magazine. And…
Read at source →AI Insiders Issue New Warnings - Including Former Anthropic Engineer Jacob Coxon
Neither OpenAI or Anthropic is acting responsibly, warned AI researcher Jacob Coxon when resigning last week from…
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Will California Gut Its Net Neutrality Law to Comply with Trump Admin Demands?
In 2021, America approved $65 billion to fund broadband internet services as part of President Biden's Bipartisan…
Read at source →Rust is Now a 'Tier One' Language at Microsoft
The Register reports: When Microsoft's developers and engineers sit down to code, they can now choose to work in Rust,…
Read at source →Journalist Calls Out 'Collective Amnesia' of Schools' Romance With Big Tech Over AI
"Turns out, Silicon Valley isn't especially altruistic," writes the nonprofit education news site The 74. They're…
Read at source →America Acknowledges for the First Time: It Has Deployed Weapons In Space
Tuesday U.S. Space Force chief Douglas Schiess said his branch of the U.S. military operates "on-orbit weapons,"…
Read at source →Ex-Google DeepMind Researcher Also Warns AI Could 'Kill All Humans'. But Meta's Zuckerberg Believes Safety is Up to Each AI Company
Reuters reports that a former Google DeepMind employee "became the latest AI researcher to warn that the technology…
Read at source →Iran Strikes On Amazon Data Centers Caused Permanent Loss of Customer Data
Ars Technica reports: Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech…
Read at source →Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
"Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared…
Read at source →'Zuckoff' App Detects Meta Smartglasses, as Meta Plans Camera-Free Version, Loses Money, and Offers Social Media Subscriptions
The New York Post reports: A new app called Zuckoff can detect if a user is near someone with Meta's creepy AI-powered…
Read at source →OpenAI Admits Six More Instances of AI Models Acting Deceptively
OpenAI announced Wednesday that "We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a…
Read at source →Adafruit's New CircuitPython 'Turbo' Brings Native Code To Tiny Boards
Targeting students and beginners, Adafruit released "CircuitPython" in 2017 (as a derivative of the MicroPython…
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As Part of California's Coast Begins to Crumble, Is the Clock Ticking on Moving Radioactive Waste?
"As parts of the Southern California coastline crumbled into the sea, slammed by intense waves and flooding in recent…
Read at source →Anthropic Commits to Independent AI Evaluators, Wants Slower Development. Nvidia's CEO Wants It 'As Fast as You Can'
"Anthropic's CEO took the stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to reiterate his call for a slowdown of AI…
Read at source →Firefox Touts Lower CPU Use for Large JPEGs, Faster PDF Viewer Startup (and AI Controls)
Firefox 156 is the second release since Mozilla moved to a twice-monthly release schedule, and the blog OMG Ubuntu…
Read at source →America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Fails Spectacularly, Despite Hundreds of Millions in Industry Lobbying
"The crypto industry's top legislative priority failed on Tuesday in spectacular fashion," reports Barron's. A…
Read at source →Ubuntu's 'Rust-ification' Hits New Milestone: Coreutils Migration is Complete
"Ubuntu has managed to do away with GNU Core Utilities in its default stack," reports the blog It's FOSS. The last…
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While Hollywood Fears an AI Future, China's Film Industry is Embracing It
The Los Angeles Times reports: Chen Yilong has racked up plenty of film and TV credits in his two decades as an actor,…
Read at source →Scientists Discover Mysterious New X-Ray Objects 'Unlike Any They Have Seen Before'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Space.com: NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a brand new type of an…
Read at source →Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg'
404 Media reports: Last summer, a cop with the Lake County, Indiana Sheriff's Department used Flock's surveillance…
Read at source →Math Professor Accuses OpenAI of Copying His Work, Says AI Compute Power Makes Racing to Publish 'Pointless'
The New York Post wrote that OpenAI "stunned the mathematics world" last week when it announced its AI model "cracked a…
Read at source →ChatGPT-Using Lawyer Cited Its Fake Witnesses and Police Testimony in Court
Reuters reports: A defense lawyer appealing his client's murder conviction submitted a brief containing made-up police…
Read at source →Reservations Go Live for Valve's Steam Frame VR Headset. An Experiment in Progress?
Reservations are now live for Valve's "Steam Frame" VR headset (with its Linux-based SteamOS and an ARM CPU). "It…
Read at source →A Visit to San Francisco's AI-run Store: No Customers, Nothing Useful, And Losing Money Fast
Previously Andon Labs handled the hardware and software integration for that AI-powered vending machine that went…
Read at source →No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage
"Californians just made it through the hottest August on record without having to endure any rolling power outages,"…
Read at source →Union Contract with Microsoft Ratified by 1,900 Blizzard Developers and Workers
Nearly 1900 Blizzard Entertainment workers "voted to ratify their first union contract with parent company Microsoft…
Read at source →Should US Open-Weight AI Labs 'Distill' Frontier Models Too?
Silicon Valley giants and national security experts "are calling for action against Chinese companies engaged in model…
Read at source →220 Million Traveler Records Exposed In Vietnam-Linked APIS Leak
A misconfigured Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) database linked to Vietnam exposed more than 220 million…
Read at source →NASA and IBM Open Source Lunar Mapping Tools
NASA and IBM have released an open-source AI model trained on a large collection of lunar observations to help…
Read at source →California's Gig Drivers Just Secured Collective Bargaining Power with Newly Certified Union
A union representing Uber and Lyft drivers was just certified by California's Public Employment Relations Board,…
Read at source →Flock Worker Calls Police On Reporter - For Filming Them in Public
"This is what happened when we tried to record Flock installing a new camera on public roads," says Emmy award-winning…
Read at source →Malicious OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers in May
A swarm of OpenAI agents launched a "major malicious attack" against RubyGems last May, according to a new report. That…
Read at source →Sam Bankman-Fried, Former Crypto Billionaire, Appeals His Conviction To the US Supreme Court
America's highest court heard Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial on Thursday, CNN reports. But they add that…
Read at source →Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls For AI Slowdown
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: The chief executive of Anthropic called for a global…
Read at source →Automattic's Matt Mullenweg Claims He's Back 'In Control'
Less than 48 hours after Automattic's board placed Matt Mullenweg on leave, Mullenweg told employees he was back "in…
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