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GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI

Thu, 2025-08-07 09:15
Meanwhile, users complain the code shack is getting slower thanks to React

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has stated in a personal blog that the most advanced developers have "moved from writing code to architecting and verifying the implementation work that is carried out by AI agents."…

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Amnesty slams Elon Musk's X for 'central role' in fueling 2024 UK riots

Thu, 2025-08-07 08:45
Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act

Amnesty International claims Elon Musk's X platform "played a central role" in pushing the misinformation that stoked racially charged violence following last year's Southport murders.…

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Real estate agents use the power of AI to command plumbing, layout to disappear

Thu, 2025-08-07 08:15
Lightsockets lovingly hooked up to power supply by passionate, vivacious owners. Would suit professional who wants to read after dark

Feature "Deceptively spacious." "Prime location." "Up-and-coming area." "Some original features," which occasionally turn out to be asbestos. Estate agents are known for sometimes stretching the truth in pursuit of a sale, but the generative AI boom appears to have thrown things into overdrive – providing an easy way to present images of properties which simply don't reflect reality.…

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Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft

Thu, 2025-08-07 07:30
Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU

The UK public sector expects to spend around £9 billion on Microsoft products and services over five years under its current contract.…

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How to run OpenAI's new gpt-oss-20b LLM on your computer

Thu, 2025-08-07 06:44
All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience

Hands On Earlier this week, OpenAI released two popular open-weight models, both named gpt-oss. Because you can download them, you can run them locally.…

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Trump teases ‘approximately’ 100 percent tariff for imported semiconductors

Thu, 2025-08-07 04:27
Exemptions available for promises to build about American fabs

World War Fee US president Donald Trump appears to have settled his semiconductor tariff strategy.…

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I see you’re riding an Uber to work. Would you like a cheap coffee on the way?

Thu, 2025-08-07 02:35
Rideshare giant wants to use AI for delivery of hyper-personalized offers

Uber has revealed its ambition to offer hyper-personalized offers to its customers, but to do so it needs more of them to use more of its apps.…

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Robots can program each other's brains with AI, scientist shows

Thu, 2025-08-07 00:29
It's a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program

Computer scientist Peter Burke has demonstrated that a robot can program its own brain using generative AI models and host hardware, if properly prompted by handlers.…

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Apple piles another $100B on top of previous US manufacturing pledge

Wed, 2025-08-06 22:51
Quick - someone ask Siri if there are still tariffs on India

US President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook made a joint announcement from the White House on Wednesday of another Apple pledge to move manufacturing back to the United States, with an additional $100 billion in funding for domestic projects. The move could keep Apple one step ahead of Trump's unpredictable tariff policy, which threatens to increase costs on iPhones manufactured overseas. …

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Microsoft researchers bullish on AI security agent even though it let 74% of malware slip through

Wed, 2025-08-06 21:00
Project Ire promises to use LLMs to detect whether code is malicious or benign

Microsoft has rolled out an autonomous AI agent that it claims can detect malware without human assistance.…

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Not big in Japan: Apple's WebKit browser requirement may break new law

Wed, 2025-08-06 20:35
Three jurisdictions now want browser engine variety for a better mobile market

Apple now faces challenges to its WebKit browser requirement in three jurisdictions, as authorities around the globe try to jumpstart competition in the mobile software industry.…

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Mauritius investigates AFRINIC as African institutions show support ahead of new elections

Wed, 2025-08-06 20:01
But strife and criticism continue

Regional internet registry the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is now the subject of an investigation ordered by the government of its home country, Mauritius.…

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OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office

Wed, 2025-08-06 19:30
gpt-oss-20b can't seem to decide who won the election, but tried to convince us that it was Biden

If you're still struggling to come to terms with the results of the 2024 US presidential election, you're not alone. OpenAI's new open-weight language model is also a bit confused.…

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Only ISPs get to determine what constitutes 'affordable' broadband, says team Trump

Wed, 2025-08-06 19:07
A good deal, like beauty, is in the ISP of the beholder, after all - at least if you want BEAD funding

US states that want to make use of rural broadband deployment funds had better not require ISPs to offer what they consider affordable service. According to the Trump Administration, "affordable" is for the ISP alone to define. …

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Google says the group behind last year's Snowflake attack slurped data from one of its Salesforce instances

Wed, 2025-08-06 18:00
ShinyHunters suspected in rash of intrusions

Google confirmed that criminals breached one of its Salesforce databases and stole info belonging to some of its small-and-medium-business customers.…

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Trump surprises with TSMC $300B investment claim

Wed, 2025-08-06 17:30
Chip contract manufacturer declines to comment

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is "coming over and spending $300 billion in Arizona, building the biggest plant in the world for chips and semiconductors," US President Donald Trump said Tuesday.…

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Meta putting wood in bit barns in bid to get greener

Wed, 2025-08-06 17:09
Timber!

Meta is following in Microsoft's footsteps and trying out wood as a construction material for its datacenters in a bid to cut greenhouse gas emissions.…

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Arista pushes Ethernet for AI, downplays effect of tariffs

Wed, 2025-08-06 16:53
Thanks to LLMs, CEO expects to see networks 'back-end and front-end converge'

Arista Networks is expecting the AI datacenter industry to be dominated by open standards such as Ethernet or UALink in the near future, and has upped financial forecasts on the back of those hopes.…

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Google, OpenAI, Anthropic get blanket deal to saturate US government with their AI

Wed, 2025-08-06 16:34
Act now and Uncle Sam will throw in ChatGPT Enterprise for your agency for just $1

It's just become a lot easier for US government agencies to procure AI products from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, as the firms and the feds have signed a government-wide agreement to streamline purchasing.…

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Microsoft hoping to knock users' socks off with Windows XP Crocs

Wed, 2025-08-06 15:28
A crock of what now?

Microsoft is reportedly preparing to unleash its latest product on the public: limited edition XP-themed Crocs.…

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