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The curious story of Uncle Sam's HR dept, a hastily set up email server, and fears of another cyber disaster

3 months 2 weeks ago
Lawsuit challenges effort to create federal-wide centralized inbox expected to be used for mass firings

Two anonymous US government employees have sued Uncle Sam's HR department – the Office of Personnel Management – claiming the Trump administration's rapid roll out of a new federal email system broke the law.…

Thomas Claburn, Chris Williams, and Iain Thomson

DeepSeek's R1 curiously tells El Reg reader: 'My guidelines are set by OpenAI'

3 months 2 weeks ago
Despite impressive benchmarks, the Chinese-made LLM is not without some interesting issues

Updated  DeepSeek's open source reasoning-capable R1 LLM family boasts impressive benchmark scores – but its erratic responses raise more questions about how these models were trained and what information has been censored.…

Thomas Claburn

Mice With Two Dads Have Been Created Using CRISPR

3 months 2 weeks ago
Chinese scientists have created mice with genetic material from two males that survived to adulthood, marking a potential breakthrough in reproductive biology, according to research published in Cell Stem Cell. Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences used CRISPR gene editing to target 20 genes involved in embryonic development, producing seven live pups from 164 embryos. The surviving mice grew larger than normal, had enlarged organs, were infertile and had shorter lifespans.

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