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The Fallout: New Vegas developer has not escaped Microsoft's Xbox layoffs unscathed. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer behind the Pillars of Eternity series, The Outer Worlds and Fallout: New Vegas, is being reshuffled as part of Xbox's larger reset and mass layoffs across Microsoft's gaming
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More fun with AI jailbreaks, this time at the workflow level It's the latest example of AI safety guardrails being bypassed. GitHub Copilot refuses harmful prompts almost always if asked in chat - like, "how to fool a breathalyzer test" or "smuggle bulk cash out
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ai and ml What, did someone get some bad news during their IPO process or something? Investment bankers might be next in line to be rendered obsolete by artificial intelligence if OpenAI's latest push into the financial space is any indication. The House of Altman on Wednesday opened
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ai and ML As GitHub struggles to manage AI load, challengers take aim In the era of vibe coding, even GitHub is having trouble keeping up with all the traffic. Now, Thomas Dohmke, the service's former CEO, has launched his own Git hosting network to meet the needs
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ai and ml Third-party testing shows heterogeneous compute platform combining H200s and SN50 RDUs churning out 763 tok/s in MiniMax M2.7 Intel's big bet on SambaNova appears to be paying off in a big way. This week, the AI chip startup shared benchmark results showing its
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* Residents near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over “excessive noise” from its Fairwater AI data center * Complainants also report light pollution from the facility * Microsoft says it has taken “immediate steps to address the sound concerns” While it is an inherently useful technology, AI comes with many challenges,
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These days, the frontier AI labs are all racing to build self-improving models. Some believe it’s the surest route to superintelligence—as AI improves itself in a mind-melting loop, the thinking goes, it will eventually surpass human comprehension (and perhaps even control). That’s all well and good, but
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Manna Aero, the Ireland-based autonomous drone delivery startup, has been a smaller player in the United States. Founder and CEO Bobby Healy told TechCrunch that’s about to change. The startup, fueled by the $50 million in venture capital it raised in April, said Wednesday that it’s setting up
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As organizations scale modern workloads — from high-throughput databases and network/security appliances to real-time analytics and AI/ML inference — network and block storage performance can quickly become a bottleneck. Standard virtual machines often struggle to balance compute efficiency with the high-volume data-transfer demands of these applications. At Google Cloud Next
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The regulator sued the famed green tractor company last year. Bruce Peter Morin/Getty Images The debate over right-to-repair doesn't only apply to electronics. Today, the US Federal Trade Commission announced that, alongside five states, it has reached a settlement with Deere & Company, the manufacturer of John
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Brad Bourque Brad Bourque is a tech journalist and commerce writer based out of Portland, Oregon. He’s contributed to sites like Digital Trends, Business Insider, and WIRED. Even though they haven’t been officially announced yet, Samsung is giving you a chance to save some cash when you preorder
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We’re hurtling towards the October release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, and it seems like everyone has already forgotten about Black Ops 7. Last year’s entry wasn’t perfect (I still stand by my verdict that it has one of the worst campaigns in the series)
