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AI bats away ping-pong challenge as rise of the machines continues

2 hours 56 minutes ago
Sony project claims a significant breakthrough with applications in task requiring speed and accuracy

Rise of the Machines  The ancient games of chess and Go are now mere staging posts in the journey toward robots demonstrating their superior performance to humans - the machines can now beat us fleshbags at ping-pong.…

Lindsay Clark

Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes

3 hours 56 minutes ago
Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turn

Bork!Bork!Bork!  The curse of Bork is no respecter of status or class. It does not differentiate between a high-flying executive and a lowly worker. And so it was that Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian came unstuck due to some all-too-familiar video-conferencing struggles.…

Richard Speed

Sharing isn’t caring if it’s an admin password

4 hours 43 minutes ago
Keeping it simple for the developers can lead to very complex headaches later

PWNED  Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we celebrate the people who’ve taught us how not to secure a server. If you’ve ever tied your own shoelaces together, then tripped over them, or attempted to dive into a swimming pool but hit your head on the diving board, we’ll be talking about your cyber equivalent.…

Avram Piltch

Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date

6 hours 11 minutes ago
NCSC passes judgment: passkeys pass muster, passwords fail

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has officially endorsed passkeys as the default authentication standard, marking the first time the agency has told consumers to move away from passwords entirely.…

Connor Jones

GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not

15 hours 30 minutes ago
Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement

Users of GitHub's command-line interface (CLI) who value privacy, beware. The Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform has quietly begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from CLI users and enabled it by default.…

Brandon Vigliarolo

Another npm supply chain worm is tearing through dev environments

15 hours 36 minutes ago
Plus, the payload references 'TeamPCP/LiteLLM method'

Yet another npm supply-chain attack is worming its way through compromised packages, stealing secrets and sensitive data as it moves through developers' environments, and it shares significant overlap with the open source infections attributed to TeamPCP last month.…

Jessica Lyons

SK Hynix’s aspirations for ’Merica-made HBM inch closer to reality

17 hours 43 minutes ago
New site set to begin manufacturing and testing HBM memory just in time for Nvidia's Rubin-Ultra GPUs in 2028

SK Hynix has reportedly broken ground on a new advanced memory packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, that should boost the supply of US-made high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a key component in high-end AI accelerators from the likes of Nvidia and AMD.…

Tobias Mann

Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor

20 hours 16 minutes ago
Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containers

The prospect of OS-level age checks applying to open source systems is a serious concern for FOSS advocates. Campaigners appear to have secured proposed exemptions for open source operating systems, code repositories, and containers in one US state, but stricter federal legislation has already been introduced in Congress.…

Liam Proven
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