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Swiss boffins just trained a 'fully open' LLM on the Alps supercomputer

Thu, 2025-07-10 06:27
Source code and weights coming later this summer with an Apache 2.0 bow on top

Supercomputers are usually associated with scientific exploration, research, and development, and ensuring our nuclear stockpiles actually work. …

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Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds

Thu, 2025-07-10 05:37
New Zealand’s Giant Moa stood over three meters tall but were easy prey

Researchers from New Zealand will try to revive extinct birds, with help from Colossal Biosciences and film-maker Sir Peter Jackson.…

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Chinese TV uses AI to translate broadcasts into sign language. It’s not going well

Thu, 2025-07-10 04:32
Deaf professor who worked on one product says developers won’t listen to feedback – about their products or their tech bro ways

China’s efforts to employ AI as a means of improving access to media for its deaf population aren’t going well, according to a professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Education.…

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Citrix signals return to the mainstream hypervisor market with a product it says isn’t ready for the job

Thu, 2025-07-10 02:45
Cites ‘aggressive licensing changes’ from rivals, but like Broadcom only sells bundles

Citrix has decided to return to the market for mainstream hypervisors with a version of its XenServer product which it currently claims isn’t ready for the job.…

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Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts

Wed, 2025-07-09 23:30
'The Things We’ll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missing

President Trump's budget slashes funding for science and led to the cancellation or reduction of thousands of research programs, so scientists have staged a series of presentations to show legislators innovations that America will miss out on in the future.…

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How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up

Wed, 2025-07-09 22:31
No, really, those are the magic words

A clever AI bug hunter found a way to trick ChatGPT into disclosing Windows product keys, including at least one owned by Wells Fargo bank, by inviting the AI model to play a guessing game.…

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Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet

Wed, 2025-07-09 21:31
Built on Chromium, ironically

Perplexity has released its own web browser called Comet, and it's clearly aimed at Google.…

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Microsoft pushes $4B at AI education for the masses

Wed, 2025-07-09 21:00
Hey, teacher, leave those kids to AI

After committing more than $13 billion in strategic investments to OpenAI, Microsoft is splashing out billions more to get people using the technology.…

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Court cancels FTC click-to-cancel rule on a technicality

Wed, 2025-07-09 19:47
Welcome back to the age of dark patterns

The US was supposed to celebrate the enforcement date for an FTC rule requiring companies to offer simple, clear, one-click subscription cancellations next Monday, but a panel of appeals court judges has decided otherwise.…

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US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader

Wed, 2025-07-09 18:06
Turns out outsourcing coders to bankroll Kim’s nukes doesn’t jibe with Uncle Sam

The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data for Pyongyang.…

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AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs

Wed, 2025-07-09 17:17
Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordingly

AMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that could lead to information disclosure.…

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Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIO

Wed, 2025-07-09 17:01
Chasing the hype without a clear use case? You may crash and burn

US Environmental Protection Agency CIO Carter Farmer has a blunt message for AI hype-chasers: Shiny-object syndrome too often drives teams to leap into AI without defining a clear use case or vetting their data, leaving them to wonder why it doesn't work.…

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Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers

Wed, 2025-07-09 16:21
Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of 'AI' companies

Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying to feed their hungry LLM bots.…

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Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip

Wed, 2025-07-09 15:18
Design sent to TSMC as startup wraps €130M funding round and targets 2026 silicon

Euro chip designer SiPearl has finally taped out its Rhea1 processor destined for Jupiter, the first European exascale supercomputer, just as its Series A financing round ends with an injection of cash from a new investor.…

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Google Cloud lands gig to make 100,000 UK civil servants tech-literate

Wed, 2025-07-09 13:23
But Chocolate Factory love-in sorely lacks detail

The UK government has signed a pact with Google Cloud to "upskill" as many as 100,000 civil servants in the latest tech by 2030.…

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Elon Musk's Grok chatbot posts Mein Kampf 2.0 in now-deleted X rant

Wed, 2025-07-09 13:15
No word on who pressed the 'MechaHitler' button

xAI is scrambling to contain the fallout after its Grok chatbot went – and there is no other way of putting this – full Nazi in its X (formerly Twitter) posts.…

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Thunderbird ESR is here: Mozilla's email client adds new functions

Wed, 2025-07-09 12:15
Version 140 has built-in MS Exchange support – and a year's updates ahead

The latest version of the messaging client from Mozilla subsidiary MZLA has a bunch of useful new features, and will get updated until mid 2026.…

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Qantas begins telling some customers that mystery attackers have their home address

Wed, 2025-07-09 11:26
Plus: Confirms less serious data points like meal preferences also leaked

Qantas says that when cybercrooks attacked a "third party platform" used by the airline's contact center systems, they accessed the personal information and frequent flyer numbers of the "majority" of the circa 5.7 million people affected.…

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ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded

Wed, 2025-07-09 10:39
Oodles of euros on offer for not accidentally blowing up stuff

Comment The European Space Agency (ESA) is pressing ahead with its European Launcher Challenge (ELC), and the good news is that three of the five pre-selected candidates have yet to explode anything in public.…

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Ingram Micro restarts orders – for some – following ransomware attack

Wed, 2025-07-09 09:22
Customers say things are still far from perfect as lengthy support queues hamper business dealings

Ingram Micro says it is gradually reactivating customer's ordering capabilities across the world, region by region, now its ransomware attack is thought to be "contained".…

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