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A woman has lived with a pig kidney for more than nine months without needing dialysis, a record-setting achievement. The woman underwent the operation at Massachusetts General Hospital on November 22 last year. As of Thursday, the kidney has been functioning for 285 days, according to Cambridge, Massachusetts-based eGenesis, the
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AI AND ML When the moon is in the seventh house... The chief exec of Hugging Face says he wants to take the platform to 100 million users within the next few years, and Nvidia’s backing could help it get there, despite rejecting an investment offer from the chip
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CERN is moving several thousand computers that control its particle accelerator hardware from Red Hat-family Linux distros to Debian. CERN – the place that runs the Large Hadron Collider – generates a lot of data, and that means it uses a lot of computers. Most of them run Linux, and for over
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A shared security 'Nightmare' The disgruntled security researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse (aka Chaotic Eclipse, Infinite Nightmare, and now also MSNightmare) is moving away from their singular Microsoft vendetta and on to other vendors. On Thursday, they dropped a new zero-day bug called FalconFlank that affects CrowdStrike’s
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AI and ML True AI-pocalypse as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down at once All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues OpenAI says its ChatGPT service is recovering from a limited outage this morning amid similar problems affecting SpaceX's Grok and Anthropic's Claude. It
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ai and ml $12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note OPINION Nvidia on Thursday announced an agreement to acquire open source AI evangelist and model depot Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in a deal
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TL;DR This ranking judges autonomous pentesting tools by proof over volume. Astra Security tops the list with dual agents that chain findings into real attack paths and a walled-off validator that re-exploits each one before triage. NodeZero and Pentera own internal-network and cloud paths. XBOW proves web exploitation at
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TL;DR Starting September 11, the EU Cyber Resilience Act will require manufacturers to notify regulators within 24 hours of learning a vulnerability in their product is being actively exploited. For companies whose products contain software from multiple suppliers, the bottleneck is not having an SBOM but knowing whether it
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TL;DR Hundreds of millions of cameras are already deployed, but most footage still requires a human to know what to look for. Lumana, founded by ex-Intel computer vision leaders, processes over a billion images daily across 50,000+ cameras using its VIA-1 model, which learns what is normal for
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Sam Altman says the AI industry has done a terrible job of communicating the benefits of the technology and is now exposed to a backlash, after local opposition blocked or delayed 75 data centre projects worth about $130B in a single quarter. In Europe the binding constraint is grid capacity,
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T-Mobile US chief executive Srini Gopalan declined to comment on a possible merger with parent Deutsche Telekom, days after Elliott built a stake to oppose it. A full combination would put the holding company outside Germany and cut the German state and KfW’s joint holding from about 28% to
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Tesla published a form on Thursday for businesses interested in buying Cybercab fleets or providing infrastructure for its network, the latest sign that the company’s aspirations for its gold-hued autonomous vehicle stretch beyond being a robotaxi operator. The robotaxi interest form, which was released ahead of the company’s
