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The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
CopyFail threatens multi-tenant servers, CI/CD work flows, Kubernetes containers, and more.
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Good Luck Getting a Mac Mini for the Next ‘Several Months’
Apple CEO Tim Cook told analysts that AI adoption has happened faster than expected.
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Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'
But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told investors during an earnings call last night that the company needs to "win back" its fans.…
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Introducing Advanced Account Security
Introducing Advanced Account Security: phishing-resistant login, stronger recovery, and enhanced protections to safeguard sensitive data and prevent account takeover.
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Quoting Andrew Kelley
It's a common misconception that we can't tell who is using LLM and who is not. I'm sure we didn't catch 100% of LLM-assisted PRs over the past few months, but the kind of mistakes humans make are fundamentally different than LLM hallucinations, making them easy to spot. Furthermore, people who...
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We need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded apps
We need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded apps Matt Webb: I would love an RSS web feed for all those various tools and apps pages, each item with an “Install” button. (But install to where?) The lesson here is that when vibe-coding accelerates app development, apps become more personal, more...
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Amazon’s cloud business is surging — and so is its capital spending
The e-commerce giant is making more money than expected from AWS but it's also spending a lot, and will continue to do so in the near term, its chief executive said.
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llm 0.32a1
Release: llm 0.32a1 Fixed a bug in 0.32a0 where tool-calling conversations were not correctly reinflated from SQLite. #1426 Tags: llm
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Microsoft says it has over 20M paid Copilot users, and they really are using it
Despite the lingering perception that no one really uses Copilot, Microsoft said on Wednesday that the number of users and engagement is growing.
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Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse
“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month.
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LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor
I just released LLM 0.32a0, an alpha release of my LLM Python library and CLI tool for accessing LLMs, with some consequential changes that I've been working towards for quite a while. Previous versions of LLM modeled the world in terms of prompts and responses. Send the model a text prompt, get...
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Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats
Think Discord chats, but with AI characters in addition to humans.
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Ubuntu’s AI plans have Linux users looking for a ‘kill switch’
Canonical's plan to add AI features to Ubuntu has some users asking for "a version of Ubuntu that does not include these features," while others say they'll stick with older versions of the Linux distro or even switch to a different one. After Canonical's announcement earlier this week that it's...
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Taylor Swift deepfakes are pushing scams on TikTok
Scammers are using AI-generated videos of celebrities including Taylor Swift and Rihanna to promote shady services on TikTok, according to authentication company Copyleaks. The ads typically show celebrities in interview settings, such as red carpets, podcasts, or talk shows, and often manipulate...
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Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed
With US restrictions limiting its access to advanced tech, SenseTime is doubling down on open source with a new model optimized to run on Chinese-made chips.
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Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models
There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was Unlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI chatbots can turn shaky web material into confident answers. Case in point: A security engineer convinced...
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AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard
Eleven up, ten down On Tuesday in San Francisco at an event called "What's Next with AWS," CEO Matt Garman took the stage to announce that AWS is (for what, depending on how you count, is the seventh, eighth, or ninth time) moving up the stack and entering the applications business.…
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AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story
No shortcuts, human-review everything, says internal team - and keep hiring junior developers Interview Steve Tarcza, director of Amazon Stores, says his team — StoreGen — exists to help the retail giant's developers move faster and cut friction. But despite the AI mandate, one principle is...