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Thursday January 30, 2025. 11:15 PM
On Monday, a new generative AI app called DeepSeek became available for download in the United States. The Chinese-created app quickly became the most downloaded free app in the US. Its quick spike in popularity has promoted concerns about data security as well as questions...
A French government-backed AI chatbot named Lucie has been pulled offline just days after its release, following a wave of criticism over its inaccurate and nonsensical responses. Developed as part of a consortium that includes the Linagora Group, Lucie was intended to...
Consider patching soon because cybercrooks love to hit vulnerable tools from Broadcom's virtualization giant Broadcom has fixed five flaws, collectively deemed 'high severity,' in VMware's IT operations and log management tools within Cloud Foundation, including two...
TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business for one PC or Mac at $159.97 through February 2 (reg. $249.99). Microsoft just raised the price of its beloved 365 software suite for the first time in over a decade… and yikes. — Read the rest The post Fed up with the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, OpenAI announced that it is deepening its ties with the US government through a partnership with the National Laboratories and expects to use AI to 'supercharge' research across a wide range of fields to...
Tackling disease, tick. High-energy physics, tick. Nuke security, also tick OpenAI has announced another deal with Uncle Sam, this time to get its very latest models in the hands of US government scientists working on nuclear security and more.…
The Deepseek-R1 model has managed to attract a lot of attention in a short time, especially because it can be used commercially without restrictions. Now, developers at Hugging Face are trying to reconstruct the generative AI (genAI) model from scratch and develop an...
Cuts to diversity programs and other policy changes have frustrated some of Meta’s workers. One former employee calls it “a slow, painful death.”
Pokemon cards from a set purportedly produced to playtest the game in the 1990s have distinctive patterns of dots added by modern printers. The dots come in various patterns (such as the famed Eurion Constellation) and may identify specific models of printer and include...
The Abyss, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Inside Out 2 are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Disney+ this month.
The NYPD has warned about the latest scam in New York City. The scammers are taking advantage of victims' generosity, stealing tens of thousands of dollars from kind-hearted targets and netting over $76,000 last year in Brooklyn and Manhattan. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE...
The company that Jeff Bezos founded has gone to court to keep the newspaper he owns from finding out too much about the inner workings of its business. From a report: Amazon is suing Washington state to limit the release of public records to The Washington Post from a series ...
While the path toward the ability to write device drivers in Rust has been anything but smooth, steady progress has been made and that goal is close to being achieved — for some types of drivers at least. Device drivers need to be able to set up memory areas for direct...
Who said dogs were man's best friend? While Japan is hardly the bizarre, whimsical wonderland some may expect looking at it from the outside, there's still plenty of room for wonder in daily life. Case in point: Bon-chan, a Tokyo-dwelling giant tortoise making the social...
If you don’t have a security camera yet, what are you waiting for? They’re so affordable and easy to set up these days, there’s no reason not to get one — especially when you have options like the Eufy SoloCam S220. This solar-powered security camera is great for...
Boy who's cried wolf on autonomous driving for years swears 'there's a damn wolf this time' Tesla had a pretty dismal fourth-quarter of 2024 and a rough year overall, financially. But you wouldn't know it from the after-hours boost to its share price as CEO Elon Musk...
Microsoft has taken the hot new AI model, DeepSeek, and made it available for Copilot+ PCs — and on the NPU, no less. If it seems like every other week something important is happening in the AI space — well, that’s not too far from the truth. And while it’s...
A racist, bigoted MAGA fearlessly shared her ugly views on the internet, so the internet taught her a lesson. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! April Martinson's racist commentary is so disgusting it caused problems for former employers. —...
Ships can turn quickly into expensive problems, and their owners are abandoning them in record numbers. This sometimes means sailors are stuck aboard, unable to leave without forfeiting years of pay—and that's just those who can leave in the first place. — Read the rest ...
Microsoft is taking an aggressive step towards lowering the price of top-tier AI reasoning, placing what appears to be unlimited access to OpenAI’s o1 model directly within Copilot’s new “Think Deeper” feature. What’s important here is the word “free”: OpenAI...
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