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Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs
For AI agents, seeing is expensive
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Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets
Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?
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Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity
Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits
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Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway
Initial phases of SpaceX's Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters
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Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI
Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff
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1 in 8 employees totally cool with selling work credentials
13% say they’ve sold logins or know someone who has, survey suggests
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We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to
A new coat of paint
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DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year
Commercial PC demand expected to cushion broader slowdown
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Iran cybersnoops still LARPing as ransomware crooks in espionage ops
MOIS-linked cyber outfit puts on a ransomware show to disguise the wide-open backdoor behind the scenes
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AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned
Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn't the gold mine some CEOs hoped for
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Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help
Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations
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IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested
Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope
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UK age-gating plans risk breaking the internet, privacy groups warn
Activists say ministers are targeting access rather than Big Tech's data-hungry business models
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It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet
Major .de domains experienced hours-long outage after registry distributed faulty signatures
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UK puts £20.5M behind 'numberplate for the skies' to keep tabs on drones
Remote ID system will log aircraft identity and location as ministers try to stop rogue flyers grounding airports
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It's game over for Copilot on Xbox
Microsoft winds down console AI assistant as new boss says it no longer fits the plan
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Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill
Investigators spent weeks unravelling enthusiast's bedroom project
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Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads
It's in Waterfox too, and there it does what you'd expect
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GNOME may rule Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon, but X.org isn't roadkill yet
Seven official flavors offer alternatives to the default Wayland-only desktop – and Xfce looks like the leanest
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