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Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections
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Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections

It's not entirely clear how the exploit works. Microsoft says it's investigating.

Ars Technica AI
Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day
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Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day

Layoffs are "not a savings-driven restructure," CFO says.

Ars Technica AI
Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.0 doubles compression and cuts generation steps from 40 to 4
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Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.0 doubles compression and cuts generation steps from 40 to 4

Alibaba released Qwen-Image-2.0, an image generation model that achieves twice the compression of competitors and...

The Decoder
ChatGPT's web traffic share dropped from 78% to 54% in one year as Gemini quietly tripled its reach
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ChatGPT's web traffic share dropped from 78% to 54% in one year as Gemini quietly tripled its reach

ChatGPT's web traffic share declined significantly from 77.6% to 53.7% over twelve months, while Google Gemini surged...

The Decoder
Fastino Labs Open-Sources GLiGuard: A 300M Parameter Safety Moderation Model That Matches or Exceeds Accuracy of Models 23–90x Its Size
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Fastino Labs Open-Sources GLiGuard: A 300M Parameter Safety Moderation Model That Matches or Exceeds Accuracy of Models 23–90x Its Size

Fastino Labs released GLiGuard, a 300M parameter open-source safety moderation model that performs four safety tasks in...

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Luma opens Uni-1.1 image model API at prices and quality matching OpenAI and Google
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Luma opens Uni-1.1 image model API at prices and quality matching OpenAI and Google

Luma has launched its Uni-1.1 image model API with competitive pricing starting at $0.04 per image. The model ranks...

The Decoder
China's AI suppliers can't keep up as critical component shortages hit production
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China's AI suppliers can't keep up as critical component shortages hit production

China's AI hardware suppliers are struggling to meet surging demand due to critical component shortages and...

The Decoder
Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves
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Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves

Adaption has released AutoScientist, an AI tool that automates the fine-tuning process, enabling models to quickly...

TechCrunch AI
Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks
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Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks

Thinking Machines is developing an AI model that can process input and generate responses simultaneously, enabling more...

TechCrunch AI
Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks
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Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks

Production-version patches are coming online and should be installed pronto.

Ars Technica AI
Baidu's Ernie 5.1 cuts 94 percent of pre-training costs while competing with top models
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Baidu's Ernie 5.1 cuts 94 percent of pre-training costs while competing with top models

Baidu's Ernie 5.1 achieves significant cost reduction by using a third of its predecessor's parameters and requiring...

The Decoder
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
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I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

A Hollywood screenwriter describes taking on AI training contract work, having completed 20 such gigs across five...

Wired AI
NVIDIA AI Releases Star Elastic: One Checkpoint that Contains 30B, 23B, and 12B Reasoning Models with Zero-Shot Slicing
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NVIDIA AI Releases Star Elastic: One Checkpoint that Contains 30B, 23B, and 12B Reasoning Models with Zero-Shot Slicing

NVIDIA researchers introduced Star Elastic, a post-training method that embeds multiple nested reasoning models (30B,...

MarkTechPost
Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals
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Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals

Across the country, schools and colleges postpone year-end tests.

Ars Technica AI
See what happens when creative legends use AI to make ads for small businesses.
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See what happens when creative legends use AI to make ads for small businesses.

The Small Brief is an initiative partnering three advertising industry leaders to create AI-generated advertisements...

Google AI Blog
Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B: A Reasoning MoE Trained on AMD Hardware That Punches Far Above Its Weight Class
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Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B: A Reasoning MoE Trained on AMD Hardware That Punches Far Above Its Weight Class

Zyphra releases ZAYA1-8B, a reasoning Mixture of Experts model with only 760M active parameters that outperforms much...

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Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals!
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Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals!

A celebration of the tweaks and customizations that make life easier at the CLI.

Ars Technica AI
Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack
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Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack

Daemon Tools users: It's time to check your machines for stealthy infections, stat.

Ars Technica AI
What an AI-designed car looks like
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What an AI-designed car looks like

Car manufacturers are exploring AI and large language models to accelerate vehicle design and development processes,...

The Verge AI