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Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o

Model was fine-tuned to write vulnerable software – then suggested enslaving humanity

 

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How mega city council's failure to act on Oracle rollout crashed its financial controls

Missing assessments, hidden caveats, and overoptimism all contributed to fateful decision, auditors find

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Numerix, Leading Provider of Capital Markets Technology, Migrates to AWS with RapidScale

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Framework Desktop wows iFixit – even with the soldered RAM

Is stuck-down memory forgivable if it's for the sake of performance?

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Ampere bets on Arm to muscle into Intel's telco territory

Chipmaker touts high-core, low-power Altra processors as the future of 5G and AI inferencing

Trump tariffs forcing rethink of PC purchases stateside

Some businesses sticking with Windows 10, AI boxes not reviving demand

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Nope. You probably can't cash in by turning your office or farm into a datacenter

Bit barn developer says your real estate can't take the heat, and forget nuking it to change that

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Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl

With a generation of networking engineers set to retire, is this how to give their successors a faster start?

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Cash torrent pouring into Nvidia slows – despite booming Blackwell adoption

May we all have problems like annual revenue growth dropping from 126 to 114 percent

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FAA confirms it's testing Starlink, maybe for tasks Elon says Verizon is doing badly

Plus: Musk's biz empire reportedly pulled in $6B-plus from Uncle Sam last year

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Feds: Army soldier suspected of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’

FYI: What NOT to search after committing a crime

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FBI officially fingers North Korea for $1.5B Bybit crypto-burglary

Federal agents, open up ... your browsers and see if you recognize any of these wallets

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How Data Scientists Are Using the AWS Cloud to Help Consumers Save Money

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No new engineer hires this year as AI coding tools boost productivity, says Salesforce

Yet growth in its AI agent biz not enough to improve numbers

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30-year-old NHS supply chain system hit by 35 major alerts in 11 months

Thousands of order lines not picked, causing delays to hospital deliveries

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FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license

Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia

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Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o

Model was fine-tuned to write vulnerable software – then suggested enslaving humanity

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AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot

Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction

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DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures'

How to make them, and what to use them for

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FDA clears Google watch feature to call 911 if you flatline

It looks like you have died. Would you like help?

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