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Tuesday August 5, 2025. 09:25 PM
OpenAI has released two open-weight language models, marking the startup's first such release since GPT-2 in 2019. The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, can run locally on consumer devices and be fine-tuned for specific purposes. Both models use chain-of-thought...
Tablets have also been growing for six straight quarters, says Canalys Chromebook demand surged in the second quarter of 2025, Canalys reported Tuesday, but that doesn't necessarily mean permanent growth is on the horizon. …
The Government Accountability Office has issued reports criticizing the Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency, and General Services Administration for failing to implement critical IT and cybersecurity recommendations. DHS leads with 43 unresolved...
Psst, wanna steal someone's biometrics? black hat Critical security flaws in Broadcom chips used in more than 100 models of Dell computers could allow attackers to take over tens of millions of users' devices, steal passwords, and access sensitive data, including fingerprint ...
Wikipedia editors have adopted a policy enabling administrators to delete AI-generated articles without the standard week-long discussion period. Articles containing telltale LLM responses like 'Here is your Wikipedia article on' or 'Up to my last training update' now...
CIOs at the EPA, DHS, and GSA are called out for failure to implement critical cybersecurity recommendations The Government Accountability Office (GAO) scolded a trio of federal agencies on Monday because their CIOs haven't implemented IT-related recommendations designed to...
Palantir chief executive Alex Karp has told analysts and investors that the company treats Harvard, Princeton and Yale graduates the same as those without college degrees, calling employment at the data analytics firm 'a new credential independent of class and background.'...
The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, represent a major shift for the AI company.
Some pinpointed software nasties but were suspicious of printer drivers too Researchers from the Universities of Guelph and Waterloo have discovered exactly how users decide whether an application is legitimate or malware before installing it – and the good news is they're ...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft has published a new video that appears to be the first in an upcoming series of videos dubbed 'Windows 2030 Vision,' where the company outlines its vision for the future of Windows over the next five years. It curiously makes...
Tools vendor targets 'creators who've never coded' but devs will be wary IDE and developer tools vendor JetBrains has released a private preview of Kineto, an AI-driven no-code platform for creators and small businesses.…
AI meeting transcription software is inadvertently sharing private conversations with all meeting participants through automated summaries. WSJ found a series of mishaps that people confirmed on-record. Digital marketing agency owner Tiffany Lewis discovered her 'Nigerian...
Roughly 200 people gathered in San Francisco on Saturday to mourn the loss of Claude 3 Sonnet, an older AI model that Anthropic recently killed.
New version season is near, and some of the big names are dropping x86-32 – but not this one NetBSD 11 is taking shape and the code branch for the new release has been created.…
An anonymous reader shares a report: A researcher has scraped nearly 100,000 conversations from ChatGPT that users had set to share publicly and Google then indexed, creating a snapshot of all the sorts of things people are using OpenAI's chatbot for, and inadvertently...
Millions of TikTok users are watching videos promoting a “ghost dot” sticker that conceals the recording indicator light on Meta’s smart glasses.
The U.S. Coast Guard determined the implosion of the Titan submersible that killed five people while traveling to the wreckage of the Titanic was a preventable disaster caused by OceanGate Expeditions's inability to meet safety and engineering standards. WSJ: A 335-page...
Wiz Research details flaws in Python backend that expose AI models and enable remote code execution Security researchers have lifted the lid on a chain of high-severity vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution (RCE) on Nvidia's Triton Inference Server.…
An anonymous reader shares a report: In a landmark move, Illinois state lawmakers have passed a bill banning AI from acting as a standalone therapist and placing firm guardrails on how mental health professionals can use AI to support care. Governor JB Pritzker signed the...
Stricken spacecraft gives scientists the silent treatment NASA has called it quits on attempts to contact its Lunar Trailblazer probe, notching up a failure in its low-cost, high-risk science program.…
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