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AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help
About 1,000 of a set of 15,000 open access scientific journals appear to exist mainly to extract fees from naive academics.…
Bring your own brain? Why local LLMs are taking off
Feature After a decade or two of the cloud, we're used to paying for our computing capability by the megabyte. As AI takes off, the whole cycle promises to repeat itself again, and while AI might seem relatively cheap now, it might not always be so.…
Programmers: you have to watch your weight, too
opinion To fight the enshittification of software, the first step is to pinpoint why and how it happens. Some observers are trying to do that.…
Kilopixel creator kills livestream switch before woodblock display hits Crysis point
All good things must come to an end, and so too must the blocky glory of the Kilopixel. As the wood and robotic marvel crested the 200,000-pixel mark, its creator pulled the metaphorical plug.…
Uncle Sam doesn't want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China
The US government already has a lot to say about what products chipmakers can and can't sell in China. This week the Commerce Department moved to make it harder for South Korean memory vendors Samsung and SK Hynix to continue manufacturing in the region.…
Researcher who found McDonald's free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots
A researcher caught the world’s leading supplier of commercial service robots using shoddy admin security that let attackers redirect the delivery machines to anywhere and make them follow any command.…
Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference
Alibaba has reportedly developed an AI accelerator amid growing pressure from Beijing to curb the nation's reliance on Nvidia GPUs. …
xAI's Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups
Public advocacy groups are demanding the US government cease any use of xAI's Grok in the federal government, calling the AI unsafe, untested, and ideologically biased.…
AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says
Chipmaker AMD is looking into a report from the GMP project about two Ryzen processors that failed during testing. Could too much math be to blame?…
AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content
With AI's rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills. How much traffic do they account for? According to Cloudflare, a major content delivery network (CDN) force, 30% of global web traffic now comes from bots. Leading the way and growing fast? AI bots.…
AWS catches Russia's Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials
Amazon today said it disrupted an intel-gathering attempt by Russia's APT29 to trick Microsoft users into unwittingly granting the Kremlin-backed cyberspies access to their accounts and data.…
GitHub engineer claims team was 'coerced' to put Grok into Copilot
Microsoft-owned collaborative coding platform GitHub is deepening its ties with Elon Musk's xAI, bringing early access to the company's Grok Code Fast 1 large language model (LLM) into GitHub Copilot. However, a whistleblower has claimed that the rollout suffers from inadequate security testing and an engineering team operating under duress.…
Pentagon ends Microsoft's use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud
The Pentagon has formally kiboshed Microsoft's use of China-based employees to support Azure cloud services deployed by US government agencies, and it's demanding Microsoft do more of its own digging to determine whether any sensitive data was compromised. …
Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs
Intel's agreement with the US government incudes a clause that would allow the feds to take an additional five percent stake in the chipmaker if it ceases to have a controlling share in its foundry business.…
FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam
The Trump administration has accused Google of discriminating against Republicans' emails and warned that the tech giant could be in line for a crackdown.…
RefreshOS 2.5: The Debian remix that borrows from every desk in the house
RefreshOS is a Debian and KDE-based distro with a difference: it casts its net a lot wider for tools and components.…
30 years later, Doom returns to SNES with Raspberry Pi RP2350 muscle
Forget Windows 95, it's 30 years since Doom was released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. And thanks to the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller, the game is back in cartridge form.…
Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug
Australian development house Click Studios has warned users of its Passwordstate enterprise password management platform to update immediately if not sooner, following the discovery of an authentication bypass vulnerability that opens the doors to an emergency administration account with nothing more than a "carefully crafted URL."…
HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11
HP says AI PCs now make up a quarter of its sales, boosting revenue thanks to their higher price tags and the Windows 11 refresh.…
UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout
Senior officials are being summoned to the UK's Science, Innovation and Technology Committee to explain why the government has not fully implemented the security recommendations made in a secret review following the 2021 Afghan data breach.…