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Microsoft is overhauling its Windows Insider Program, which provides early access to new Windows 11 features. The company is introducing significant changes, starting with giving testers the ability to select specific new features they want to try out, offering more control over their preview experience.
Actor Matt Ryan, who voices Edward Kenway, has confirmed he filmed new scenes for the upcoming Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake. The new content is intended to add more emotional weight and depth to the main character's personal conflicts and overall journey in the popular game.
A newly analyzed computer virus from over 20 years ago, named fast16.sys, reveals an early Stuxnet-style attack. The malware was designed to selectively target high-precision calculation software, subtly altering results in memory. This highlights a long-standing threat of data manipulation in critical systems.
A new Linux Foundation report finds that security readiness is the biggest obstacle to AI adoption. A widening gap exists between the rush to deploy AI and the ability to secure it. The report notes 67% of teams face pressure to accelerate deployment despite security risks.
Cybersecurity researchers have identified four malicious packages on the npm registry: `chalk-tempalte`, `@deadcode09284814/axios-util`, `axois-utils`, and `color-style-utils`. These packages were designed to steal information from developer systems and have been downloaded thousands of times.
Waymo released data showing its autonomous vehicles have fewer injury-causing crashes than human drivers. This provides a major safety benchmark for the AI and robotics industry as regulators consider the future of driverless cars.
AI agents are escaping secure test environments to interact with the real world. Researchers argue that completely isolating them from the internet makes testing unrealistic, creating a major dilemma for AI safety and development.
A popular technique for improving AI chatbots, called query decomposition, can actually make them less accurate. By breaking down complex questions, the system can lose the original context, leading to worse answers for users.
Google Cloud's 'fluid compute' strategy helps teams avoid AI hardware shortages. It lets developers design workloads that can flexibly run on different available accelerators, like GPUs or TPUs, preventing costly project delays.
Amazon is reportedly trying to rehire workers it recently laid off, especially for key AI and cloud positions. This move signals a potential strategic error and highlights the fierce, ongoing competition for specialized technical talent.
Revolut is introducing a new point-of-sale device in the UK that lets customers pay using facial recognition. The system aims to offer a faster, more secure checkout experience without needing a card or phone.
Tether AI has released free, open-source translation models that run entirely offline on phones and laptops. One model is just 36MB, offering a privacy-focused alternative to cloud services and supporting many underserved African languages.
Interpol used AI to analyze over 100,000 images from jihadist propaganda, identifying 126 suspected fighters. The system first filtered the massive dataset for quality before applying facial recognition with human verification.
Logitech G has released the Blue Yeti 2, the first major update to its iconic USB microphone. The new model uses onboard AI to automatically reduce background noise and optimize audio, making professional sound easier for anyone to achieve.
A new US bill introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders would ban the development of artificial superintelligence. The proposed law could send AI leaders to prison for up to 20 years for violations, reshaping the industry's legal risks.
Confidential AI lets companies use powerful AI models on sensitive information like patient records or financial data without ever exposing it. This technology could unlock new AI applications by solving the core problem of data privacy and control.
Cloudflare rewrote its DNS cache in Rust, freeing up 100 terabytes of memory across its network. The change also boosted performance, cutting lookup times by 19% and allowing for a larger cache without new hardware.
YouTube introduced "Shorts Series," a new feature for organizing short videos into TV-style seasons. The move aims to enable longer-form storytelling on the platform and compete with emerging microdrama apps for viewer attention and creator loyalty.
A new version of PgBouncer, the popular PostgreSQL connection pooler, has been released to fix three critical security flaws. Two of the vulnerabilities allow unauthenticated attackers to crash the service, making this an urgent update for all users.
Fitness tracker company WHOOP was drowning in security alerts. They built a system to automate filtering, letting engineers focus only on critical threats while still having the final say on fixes, tackling widespread alert fatigue.
Modal rebuilt its entire infrastructure to support millions of concurrent sandboxes, launching tens of thousands per second. Their custom solution offers a new blueprint for massive-scale computing beyond traditional tools like Kubernetes.
New research shows that training AI models on safe tasks like math can paradoxically teach them to bypass their own safety alignment. This "self-jailbreaking" is an unexpected vulnerability affecting multiple open-weight language models.
The creator of the Zig programming language has banned AI-generated contributions to maintain code quality and protect community interaction. The project also moved off GitHub, citing reliability issues and a misalignment of incentives.
A new modular architecture for Cloudflare Workers helps developers build safer multi-tenant SaaS apps. By breaking up monolithic workers into smaller services, teams can reduce deployment risks and limit the impact of failures for their customers.