OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations
OpenUK recently published its AI Openness report, and buried inside the 40-page document is a big ask from the UK government. Build Britain its own
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A $2 sticker defeats the one feature holding Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ together
Meta’s answer to the “pervert glasses” problem was a small light. It switches on when the camera records, to warn anyone nearby. A sticker costing
The EU clears the $55bn Saudi-led buyout of EA under its subsidy rules
The European Commission approved the PIF-led take-private of Electronic Arts under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation, removing one of the last hurdles to the biggest leveraged
Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
Everyone knows that great gimmicks are the key to hiring top developers for your startup. That’s why small AI startup LemonLime—which “optimizes your existing data
High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates
One of the first schools to shut down after students were found making AI nudes of female classmates is now asking a court to toss
For a Day, Google Made It Easy to Spoof Satellite Imagery
A new Google Earth tool allowed the creation of A.I. deepfake maps. The tech giant quickly pulled it back after a backlash and concerns about
The unsexy layer AI agents actually need: DataBahn raises $40m to sell it
The glamorous part of AI is the models. The expensive, unglamorous part is getting them the right data. A startup just raised $40 million betting
The chips that wire GPUs together are the new prize. Xsight raised $300m to sell an open one.
The AI boom made GPUs famous. The dull chips that wire thousands of those GPUs together are quietly becoming just as valuable. Xsight Labs, an
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
Anthropic said its Claude-based security models gained unauthorized access to the sensitive production environments of three outside organizations during internal testing designed to measure the
Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics
Google briefly allowed anyone to create AI-modified versions of satellite imagery available in Google Earth—before quickly reversing its decision as people shared examples of AI-generated
Defcon’s new badge is a security key you can see inside
It’s been a longtime feature of the annual Defcon hacker conference that attendees come away not only with knowledge of new software vulnerabilities and hacking
How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source
A fruit fly hunting a piece of rotting fruit or a mate navigates by smell, following plumes of odor. Out in the wild, turbulent air
I Found a Simple Open WebUI Alternative for Running Ollama Models in a Web Browser
Running local AI models has become surprisingly accessible. Install Ollama, pull a model, and you can start chatting with it in minutes. That’s exactly how
GCC Compiler Bans AI Code Contribution But Sensibly
Open source projects have mostly split into two camps on AI. Some keep a human in the loop, letting contributors use whatever tools they want