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Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features
Among the software developers who use Microsoft's GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories.…
If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here's what they might look like
Analysis OpenAI is allegedly developing a custom AI accelerator with the help of Broadcom in an apparent bid to curb its reliance on Nvidia and drive down the cost of its GPT family of models.…
FCC plans to kill Wi-Fi on school buses, hotspots for library patrons
The US Federal Communications Commission may soon pull funding for free Wi-Fi on school buses and in libraries after Chair Brendan Carr declared two Biden-era expansions unlawful and proposed eliminating them.…
The crazy, true story behind the first AI-powered ransomware
interview It all started as an idea for a research paper. …
Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python
A team of data thieves has doubled down by developing its CastleRAT malware in both Python and C variants. Both versions spread by tricking users into pasting malicious commands through a technique called ClickFix, which uses fake fixes and login prompts.…
HHS warns US health care industry to share data with patients or else
It took four presidential administrations to finally get it done, but US health care actors that block patient and provider access to electronic medical data may finally begin to face actual consequences.…
Critical, make-me-super-user SAP S/4HANA bug under active exploitation
A critical code-injection bug in SAP S/4HANA that allows low-privileged attackers to take over your SAP system is being actively exploited, according to security researchers.…
Bot shots: US Army enlists AI startup to provide target-tracking
The US Army is preparing to deploy a new AI product that promises to automatically identify and track potential targets on the battlefield. However, humans will continue to make life and death decisions.…
Europe’s Jupiter supercomputer hits exascale threshold at inauguration
video Europe's first exascale supercomputer has finally lived up to expectations, despite not being fully complete, as its general-purpose compute cluster is not set to be ready before next year at the earliest.…
Firefox ESR 115 won't quit Windows 7 – at least not until March 2026
Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, had some good news this week for users still clinging to Windows 7 – Firefox ESR 115 support is being extended until March 2026.…