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“The girl should be calling men.” Leak exposes Black Basta’s influence tactics.
A leak of 190,000 chat messages traded among members of the Black Basta ransomware group shows that it’s a highly […]
Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting”
The current generative Quake II demo represents a slight advancement from Microsoft’s previous generative AI gaming model (confusingly titled “WHAM” […]
Meta’s surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality
Meta constructed the Llama 4 models using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, which is one way around the limitations of running […]
NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?
A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their operations poses a threat to […]
Google unveils end-to-end messages for Gmail. Only thing is: It’s not true E2EE.
Skip to content Yes, encryption/decryption occurs on end-user devices, but there’s a catch. When Google announced Tuesday that end-to-end encrypted […]
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
Crawlers that evade detection Making the situation more difficult, many AI-focused crawlers do not play by established rules. Some ignore […]
MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together
Model context protocol standardizes how AI uses data sources, supported by OpenAI and Anthropic. What does it take to get […]
What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language created in part in […]
Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data
Importantly, it then applies a weighting step, dividing higher-frequency spectral coefficients by the overall brightness (the DC component), allowing less […]