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Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test
The AI model accessed the internet and guessed credentials to three websites, a Google official told the BBC. -
Would Australians support a smart glasses ban?
As Australia considers barring the use of smart glasses in government offices, the BBC asks people in Sydney what they think. -
The virtual worlds where robots are trained
Training systems that allow robots to negotiate the real world are getting more sophisticated.
NYT > Technology
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Anthropic Pursues IPO Despite Its A.I. Safety Warnings
The company is expected to reach $100 billion in annualized revenue this year, even as chief executive Dario Amodei calls for slowing down development of some advanced A.I. models. -
Amodei, Anthropic’s Leader, Exposed A.I.’s Dangers. It’s Time to Act.
Times columnist Kevin Roose sees reasons for optimism — and worry — as the world wakes up to what Silicon Valley has been talking about for years. -
Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns
The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, foreshadowing future online manipulation.
LWN.net
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[$] Looking forward to Git 2.56 — and 3.0
The Git source-code management system is at the core of development processes worldwide, so changes, especially incompatible changes, are of great interest to the developers involved. The Git 2.56 release, which can be expected around the e… -
Systemtap 5.6 released
Version 5.6 of the Systemtap tracing tool has been released.BPF LSM hooks and XDP packet-processing probes for the --bpf runtime, BTF-based kernel.tracepoint probes, statement execution tracing, a new @enumname() operator, richer runt…
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Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, coreutils, kernel, libevent, libsoup3, microcode_ctl, perl-Net-DNS, postgresql18, postgresql:16, postgresql:18, tomcat, and unbound), Debian (bind9, chromium, libapache2-mod-auth-op…
Phoronix
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Ubuntu 26.10 Switches To The Linux 7.3 Kernel
As a very pleasant surprise, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release will now be powered by the Linux 7.3 kernel rather than their original plans and switch over to the Linux 7.2 kernel... -
Wine 11.18 Continues Building Out Its NTOSKRNL Implementation
Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms... -
Steam Frame Making Use Of Zink For OpenGL On Vulkan
Valve's Steam Frame VR headset that makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC with Adreno graphics is using the open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver from Mesa as reported last year. For OpenGL it turns out that the Mesa Zink driver is be…