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Your CV is not fit for the 21st century – time to get it up to scratch

Mon, 2025-08-11 09:00
And yes, that means (retch) catering to AI searchers

The job market is queasy and since you're reading this, you need to upgrade your CV. It's going to require some work to game the poorly trained AIs now doing so much of the heavy lifting. I know you don't want to, but it's best to think of this as dealing with a buggy lump of undocumented code, because frankly that's what is between you and your next job.…

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AI coding tools crash on launch, could reboot better in future

Mon, 2025-08-11 08:15
Grace Hopper and GitHub have more in common than capital letters

Opinion Here are two snapshots of AI in coding in mid 2025. The CEO of GitHub, coding’s universal termite mound, says that AI is going to do all the coding and that’s a good thing. Meanwhile, real life AI coding tools make coders less productive while spreading the hallucination that they’re more so.…

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Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong way to turn things off

Mon, 2025-08-11 07:32
Instructor ended up teaching a lesson in how to get away with mistakes

Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? It’s The Register’s Monday column in which we celebrate your SNAFUS and rejoice in your recoveries.…

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China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests

Mon, 2025-08-11 06:29
Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030

China’s Manned Space Engineering Network says the country’s first crewed lunar lander last week completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test, bringing it closer to landing on Luna - and leaving it again afterwards.…

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Google fixing Gemini so it doesn't channel paranoid androids quite so often

Mon, 2025-08-11 05:31
Brain the size of a planet and probably trained on Sci-Fi that’s full of anxious and depressed robots

Google is aware that its Gemini AI chatbot can sometimes castigate itself harshly for failing to solve a problem and plans to fix it.…

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Nvidia and AMD reportedly chipping in to Washington’s coffers with 15 percent fee for China sales

Mon, 2025-08-11 03:15
Trump administration’s licenses come with an IOU

Nvidia and AMD will reportedly be allowed to resume sales in China if they cough a license fee amounting to 15 percent of sales.…

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