Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive
While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.
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Nvidia app update fails to block unofficial DLSS multi-frame generation mod on RTX 40 series gaming GPUs — modders restore support across multiple games within hours
When NVIDIA launched the GeForce RTX 50 series, a major part of the hype surrounding the new GPU family was its support for DLSS Multi-Frame Generation....
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Alienware’s refurbished 16 Aurora is almost $200 off at Woot
Gaming laptop deals aren’t what they used to be (stares daggers at RAMageddon), which is why I consider Woot’s deal on a refurbished Alienware 16 Aurora...
Read moreThreat Modeling Beyond Your Computer: Public Data, Doxxing and Social Engineering
The Threats Nobody Patches With Software Most security advice focuses on firewalls, antivirus software and strong passwords. That advice matters, yet it misses a category of...
Read moreNetworkManager Works To Enforce AI Policy By Tricking AI Agents To Add A Canary
Last month the NetworkManager project adopted an AI coding policy where authors are responsible for 100% of the code they submit and must be able to...
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What to expect at Apple’s September 9th launch event
Apple's September 9th launch event could be one of its biggest in years. It will be Apple's first event since John Ternus took over as CEO...
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New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic
A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: #059: r2u, GitHub Actions, a Tragedy of the Commons, and a Fix
Welcome to post 59 in the R4 series. How did we get here: A initial words about GitHub. GitHub Actions provides (essentially unlimited) compute time. This...
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Get this stunning MSI RTX 5060 Ti 16G deal at Walmart for $200 less than anywhere else — only $569.99 for the solid mid-range Shadow 2x OC Plus gaming GPU is a steal by anyone's standards
Snag an MSI RTX 5060 Ti 16G Shadow 2x OC Plus at Walmart for an awesome $200 less than anywhere else - $569 price is the...
Read morePoCL 7.2 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs
The Portable Computing Language project is out today with PoCL 7.2 as this portable, MIT-licensed OpenCL implementation that runs across various CPU architectures as well as...
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Ubuntu 24.04 splits firmware packages for faster updates
Firmware updates on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS have got smaller, as Canonical has backported the split Linux firmware packages it introduced in 26.04. To make the change...
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Next week, for the first time ever, Nintendo is hosting two Directs back-to-back – and the first one is dedicated to The Legend of Zelda's 40th anniversary
Back in June, we learned that we're officially getting a The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, which is supposedly coming to Switch 2 later...
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