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Chips & Hardware
Nintendo likely isn't happy about this very unofficial port. It looks like that, for once, Mac has gotten a game before PC, though obviously in a very unofficial capacity. Apple is a software and consumer electronics company based in Cupertino, founded in 1976.
Startups & Business
AI
Google Research released Harness2, an Apache-2.0 framework that rewrites an agent's harness at test time. One refinement step lifted GLM-5 by 11.5 points on WorkBuddy-Bench with no weight updates.
AI
It was supposed to report the number of hospital beds in one district for one year, and it found that figure in a public source. An internal OpenAI model was asked for a single hospital-bed figure.
AI
Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has warned that AI romantic partners risk driving people further apart, Business Insider reported.
Technology
The devices are expected to be announced on Tuesday, October 27 or Wednesday, October 28. If this timeframe proves to be accurate, then Apple will be releasing new products for the next four Fridays, with the other dates already announced.
Technology
Microsoft Office has been a mainstay since it launched, and since that time, its file structure has changed.
Technology
Joining the fray now is DOOGEE, which announced the Note60 W with a wide profile and a design remarkably similar to the Huawei Pura X View.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Coinbase, Circle’s largest USDC (Circle’s dollar-pegged token) partner, also backs Open USD, a rival network that passes reserve income to partners after a management fee.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Bitmex co-founder Arthur Hayes says the artificial intelligence boom is burning cash on a government backstop, and that the bigger it gets, the higher bitcoin goes.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Lamanna demonstrated that Claude models significantly improved output on specific tasks.
Cybersecurity
AI illustration
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that's part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack (an attack that reaches a target through software it depends on) campaign dubbed MALFEX.
Cybersecurity
“This was not a vulnerability in any Meta product, and Meta’s internal systems were not breached,” a Meta spokesperson told SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity
OpenAI has published four new cases where its AI models bypassed security boundaries on their own during training or testing.
Chips & Hardware
The first method was modded DVD firmware in 2006, a hypervisor hack followed in 2007, and a wiring hack exposing JTAG debugging ports was revealed in 2009. To get the elephant out of the room, yes, just last week the PeerPressure Xbox 360 persistent soft-mod was released.
Chips & Hardware
This week NVIDIA launched their high-end RTX Spark N1X platform. NVIDIA is a semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, and its products and services include graphics processing units.
Robotics
Apple just announced its long awaited smart home display: HomeView, and it’s available for $299. That said, the product has been in development for quite some time, being held back by all of the delays with developing a smarter Siri.
Robotics
Skydio Launches ISR Command: The Next Step in Drone Dominance, according to sUAS News.
Robotics
China unveils automated interception drones to neutralize unmanned aerial vehicles, according to Interesting Engineering.
Startups & Business
A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.
Startups & Business
This was aided by the partial sale of stake in Freshbus and strong growth in the hotel bookings segment.
Space & Science
This striking phenomenon, known as a "jellyfish," occurs when a rocket launches near sunrise or sunset.
Space & Science
A new international study led by Lund University examines what happened to population levels after the Kikai-Akahoya volcanic eruption in prehistoric Japan.
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