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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The U.K. government wants to make a hard pivot into boosting its economy and industry with AI, and as part of that, it's pivoting an institution that it founded a little over a year ago for a very different purpose. Today the Department of Science, Industry and Technology announced that it would be renaming the AI Safety Institute to the "AI Security Institute." (Same first letters: same URL.) With that, the body will shift from primarily exploring areas.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Cognition CEO Scott Wu said there are better ways to incentivize employees to use AI. Read more ›
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A new report suggests Apple could hold its next iPhone launch event in the second week of September. The company's first foldable iPhone, rumored to be called the iPhone Ultra, is expected to debut alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. The information comes from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who says Apple is expected to follow its usual launch schedule and unveil the new iPhone lineup on the... Read more ›
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В 2017 году в мире нейросетей произошел почти незаметный переворот. Без громких презентаций и человекоподобных роботов исследователи из Google опубликовали статью с очень скромным названием — Attention is All You Need. Но именно после нее индустрия ИИ фактически разделилась на «до» и «после».Сегодня на трансформерах работают ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Midjourney и почти весь современный генеративный ИИ. И самое странное в этой истории — фундаментом революции стала одна из самых простых... Read more ›
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Самые интересные новости финансов и технологий в России и мире за неделю: уголовка косплееру по Warhammer, ограничение сроков льготной ипотеки, Илон Маск запустил летающую тарелку и перестал быть триллионером, падение биткоина, OpenAI выпустили GPT-5.6, а Цукерберг хочет ворваться на рынок предсказаний. Читать далее Read more ›
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Shares of insurtech startup Turtlemint made a weak debut on the bourses today, listing at ₹134.90 on the NSE. This… Read more ›
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I track Dell laptop prices, and this AU$1,139 Dell 14 Plus is a EOFY deal I'd recommend even before our discount code. Read more ›
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Donald Trump shuttered the web site Climate.gov in 2025, cutting off public access to climate information from America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But "former members of the site's team have brought much of it back at a new domain," reports The Register: "Trusted climate information should not disappear when politics change," Climate.us managing director Rebecca Lindsey said of the new platform in a press release. Lindsey, who previously... Read more ›
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Olivia Wilde said she doesn't blame actors for getting cosmetic procedures because she is under the same industry pressures they face. Read more ›
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Investors have pulled out $4 billion from the U.S.-listed spot bitcoin ETFs in June, the highest outflow on record. Read more ›
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In just two days, Plex will triple the price of its Lifetime Pass, but there's still time to lock in the current rate. Read more ›
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РассказИИ-офис молчал всю ночь. Это было плохо.Обычно корпоративный ИИ-офис не молчит. Он шуршит фоном: нарезает записи в протоколы, собирает письма, подсвечивает риски, сравнивает версии договоров, ловит просрочки, пишет «рекомендовано назначить ответственного» и прочую административную поэзию, за которую раньше платили живым людям с лицами, кредитами и отпускными.Молчание означало одно из трёх: либо всё сломалось, либо закончились токены, либо система нашла способ решить проблему без меня.Третий вариант б Read more ›
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Information and communications technology is expanding far faster than finance. Regions outside London want a piece of the pie Read more ›
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A private tutor who charged money to take dozens of exams for students and submit coursework for them "has been jailed for three years," reports the BBC, "after his scam earned him £300,000." Shahid Adnan completed assignments and online tests for more than 120 students at Liverpool John Moore's University, the Crown Prosecution Service said. The 43-year-old, of Lysander Close, Liverpool, was caught in February 2023 after a student handed... Read more ›
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America's state prison systems need ways "to keep people from returning to prison," reports the Wall Street Journal, "when an estimated 40% end up back behind bars within three years." Part of the problem comes in the form of filing cabinets, manila folders and legacy digital databases. In other words, records for a single prisoner might be kept in a dozen places... Now a group of 19 prison systems are... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Claude Guillemot, co-founder of French video game company Ubisoft, died Friday at the age of 69. According to French media (via Bloomberg), Guillemot died in a plane crash in the French resort town of La Baule. He was one of two people aboard the plane, both of whom died. Guillemot founded Ubisoft with his four brothers in 1986. Since then, the company... Read more ›
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UC San Diego researchers are working with Google to build a private cloud from 2,000 retired Pixel Fold motherboards, demonstrating how discarded smartphones could provide useful, low-cost computing capacity. "The full smartphone cluster is expected to launch this fall," reports The Register. "Depending on how well the initial phase goes, we're told the cluster could grow even larger." From the report Once the phone's motherboards have been extracted from their... Read more ›
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Garfield AI, the UK's first regulator-approved AI law firm, has won its first court case after helping a freelancer recover 7,000 pounds in unpaid fees. "I was owed money for work I had done, but it felt like the process of recovering it could be too stressful, expensive and time-consuming," said Tamires Camal Taquidir, a freelancer who had provided HR-related services to a hospitality business. "Garfield made it possible for... Read more ›
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Valve's new Steam Machine will launch June 29 starting at $1,049 and go up from there depending on the configuration. Although it costs considerably more than the PS5 ($599.99) and Xbox Series X ($649.99), "the value proposition for the Steam Machine is that it can play your library of Steam games you may have accumulated over years (or even decades), rather than just PlayStation games, and it's also a full... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: As Big Tech dumps billions of dollars into America's data center buildout, a slew of opportunities have opened up to the electricians wiring these massive facilities. In some cases, the scale of the projects and the demanding construction timelines are fueling talent wars for the industry's best and brightest. The US-based International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) has argued that its workers... Read more ›
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Google is investing roughly $75 million in A24 as part of a research partnership with DeepMind to develop AI-powered filmmaking tools and workflows. "The deal represents the latest marriage between a Hollywood studio and AI in an era where companies have oscillated between partnerships and lawsuits," reports Variety. From the report: A24 partner Scott Belsky, who leads the studio's technology division A24 Labs, told the Journal the studio's Google partnership... Read more ›
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With the price of the new Steam Machine starting at $1,049, you might want to consider making your own Steam Machine instead. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Valve says that "starting with the SteamOS 3.8 release, you can put together your own Steam Machine using whatever PC parts you want." SteamOS 3.8.10 launched last week with a slew of updates, including "improved compatibility with recent Intel... Read more ›
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Last week, AMD was found to have stripped memory encryption from its consumer CPUs without any warning or notice. Now, following a wave of backlash on social media, the chipmaker has now reinstated the protection, though it still hasn't explained why the safeguard was disabled in the first place. Ars Technica reports: Following the revelation, social media was deluged by comments from AMD consumers decrying the move. They noted that... Read more ›
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