Accelerating discovery in India through AI-powered science and education
Google DeepMind brings National Partnerships for AI initiative to India, scaling AI for science and education
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Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming
matrixOS brings OSTree atomic upgrades to Gentoo with a simple motto: “emerge once, deploy everywhere.”
Read moreHarness Engineering
Birgitta Böckeler explains why OpenAI’s recent write-up on Harness Engineering is a valuable framing of a key activity in AI-enabled software development. The harness includes context...
Read moreMicrosoft .NET On Linux Patches Use IO_uring For Massive Performance Benefits
A pull request for the Microsoft .NET Runtime build on Linux to use IO_uring for sockets is showing some massive performance benefits…
Read moreThe Download: the rise of luxury car theft, and fighting antimicrobial resistance
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The curious case of...
Read moreAnnouncing FIPS 140-3 for Ubuntu Core22
With the release of the FIPS 140-3 certified cryptographic modules for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Canonical is building on its long tradition of enabling customers to deploy...
Read moreNotepad++ 8.9.2 Introduces “Double-Lock” Security to Fix the Update Hijack
Worried about the Notepad++ supply chain attack? Notepad++ 8.9.2 adds “Double-Lock” security to stop malware hijacking. The post Notepad++ 8.9.2 Introduces “Double-Lock” Security to Fix the...
Read moreSide-Channel Attacks Against LLMs
Here are three papers describing different side-channel attacks against LLMs. “Remote Timing Attacks on Efficient Language Model Inference“: Abstract: Scaling up language models has significantly increased...
Read moreAirTag Has Hole Behind the Battery? It’s Likely Been Silenced
Apple AirTags have speakers in them, and the speaker is not entirely under the owner’s control. [Shahram] shows how the speaker of an AirTag can be...
Read moreLeapwork Research Shows Why AI in Testing Still Depends on Reliability, Not Just Innovation
Leapwork recently released new research showing that while confidence in AI-driven software testing is growing rapidly, accuracy, stability, and ongoing manual effort remain decisive factors in...
Read moreOpenAI Publishes Codex App Server Architecture for Unifying AI Agent Surfaces
OpenAI has recently published a detailed architecture description of the Codex App Server, a bidirectional protocol that decouples the Codex coding agent’s core logic from its...
Read moreThe Simplest Android App for Scanning Documents
Most scanning apps try to get you to buy a cloud storage subscription or pay for extras. Not FairScan, which is free and open-source, and has...
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