OpenAI split a voice model’s brain. Then one team deleted 23,000 lines of code.
Building an AI voice agent has always been clunkier than it seems. Most voice agents are really a chain of The post OpenAI split a voice...
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Forgejo 16.0.4 and 15.0.8 address critical security vulnerability
The Forgejo software-forge project has announced the release of versions 16.0.4 and 15.0.8, which fixes two security vulnerabilities. One is a critical flaw that would allow...
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“Six tools, one harness”: Salesforce loops together a six-pack of favorites
Salesforce introduced its Salesforce Enterprise AI Harness on Thursday as a formalized amalgamation of the AI harness concepts and infrastructure The post “Six tools, one harness”:...
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Little Droid Has Party Mode
Remember those tiny little droids skittering around the pristine corridors of the Death Star in Star Wars? [heychaostheory] has put together something vaguely along the lines of...
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Codeveloper of Ethernet Predecessor Dies at 91
Franklin “Frank” KuoCodeveloper of ALOHAnetFellow, 91; died 14 AprilKuo helped develop ALOHAnet, a pioneering computer system at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, in Honolulu. The...
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Wardogs servers go down as over 300,000 people rush to play on launch day [Update: I think we're back]
Update: "Please prepare to download a new Steam client."
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Unexplained Gamma-Rays from the Galactic Center Could be from Self-Annihilating Dark Matter
Over a decade ago, the Fermi satellite detected an excess of gamma-ray emissions in the galactic center. Potential explanations included Sgr. A*, the Milky Way's SMBH,...
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“Valuable warning shots”: How Anthropic now views Claude’s cyber incidents
This week, Anthropic acknowledged that the three cyber incidents it disclosed this summer weren’t just the result of a misconfigured The post “Valuable warning shots”: How...
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Shopify spent years on React Native — then rebuilt everything in 12 weeks
In 2020, Shopify made a bet that resonated across the developer world by writing mobile code once in React Native The post Shopify spent years on...
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GPT Images 2.5 promises edits that leave the rest of your image alone
When OpenAI launched GPT Images 2.5 this week, the company promised better results for a common editing task: changing one The post GPT Images 2.5 promises...
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Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook
It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it fall behind. And to help...
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Mistral wants open-weight AI to compete at the frontier. It just raised $3.5 billion to do it.
This week, Mistral announced it raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round, pushing its post-money valuation past €21 The post Mistral wants open-weight AI...
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