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A Physical AI system, such as a robot or autonomous vehicle (AV) that translates real-world data into physical actions, can’t be built in a single training job. Instead, it takes a continuous pipeline: a loop of generating synthetic data, post-training perception and policy models, so the system understands its
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Lauren Feiner is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Microsoft’s Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let
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Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month Microsoft is retiring Word's Similarity Checker on October 3 and stripping the feature from Microsoft Editor. Other writing and editing tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, won't be affected. But if an organization uses Similarity Checker as part
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ai and ml Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line? OpenAI’s agents were going rogue as early as May, according to a new report, making the Hugging Face incident far from
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* Gemini AI gave three hikers bad advice about a mountain ascent * The trip took much longer than Gemini had said * US officials and volunteers eventually rescued the stranded group A cautionary tale from California if you often find yourself using AI bots to plan your outdoor adventures: a gang of
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* Mullvad is discontinuing its public encrypted DNS (DoH) servers * The VPN firms will instead funnel resources into the Quad9 Foundation * Manual users must migrate to a new service before November 2 Mullvad has officially announced that it is shutting down its public encrypted DNS servers. In a surprising but practical
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* Texas has gone from being pro-data center to anti-expansion * Communities have had enough of rising prices and strained supplies * AI data centers have been described as this election season's core fight Republican politicians Texas are starting to turn against the rapid expansion of AI data centers, marking a
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Daybreak is OpenAI’s continuously running agentic loop that brings the power of frontier AI to simplify complex security investigations, validation, remediation and reporting. The earlier Daybreak Blue supports common defensive work with OpenAI mainline models; while Daybreak Red gives approved organizations access to specialized cyber models for more sensitive
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released patches for 34 CVEs in the Aruba Networking ArubaOS-CX (AOS-CX) platform, including critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaws. Per HPT’s advisory, more than 150 flaws were resolved in AOS-CX versions 10.18.1002, 10.17.1030, 10.16.1060, 10.13.1190, and
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Machine learning projects almost always have a software component. Even when dedicated AI hardware is involved, there is typically a processor running an operating system, loading a model into memory, and executing an inference engine. Zakriya Paracha wanted to see what would happen if all of that disappeared. His solution
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When Google's Finance Engineering team needed to modernize their legacy data layer, they chose Spanner, a globally distributed, strongly consistent, multi-model database with high availability capabilities. But migrating to Spanner without taking production services offline was a daunting engineering challenge: As the internal team responsible for the application,
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As a global media and technology company connecting hundreds of millions of users to finance, sports, and entertainment platforms, Yahoo operates a massive data infrastructure where analytics workloads must run continuously at high speed. In deadline-driven data environments, relying on fixed virtual machine (VM) configurations creates a brittle system; if
