Nix and Lix local root-privilege-escalation vulnerabilities
The Lix and Nix projects have jointly disclosed a set of vulnerabilities that can be used to escalate privileges to root on systems running the Lix...
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Meta’s Generative Ads Model (GEM): Scaling the Central Model and Compute Engine for Frontier Ads AI
Last year, we introduced GEM, the industry’s largest recommendation system (RecSys) foundation model. GEM established Meta’s first LLM-inspired paradigm for ads recommendation, driving major performance gains....
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Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay
Developers will get 50 percent discounted API rates through November.
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No, I am not evil for wanting to turn space whale city-builder Beyond These Stars into a Moby Dick simulator
I think I'm a pretty decent Space Whale Mayor, all told. A caring and responsible fellow traveler for Kewa, the astral cetacean on whose craggy, cloud-hung...
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Gemini 4 Argon debuts with a unified 1M input/output token limit
On Tuesday, Google made Gemini 4 Argon, the company’s new flagship model, available to developers on the paid tier of The post Gemini 4 Argon debuts...
Read moreAWS Weekly Roundup: Prime Day 2026 by the numbers, Claude Haiku 5.5, Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, and more (October 13, 2026)
Some numbers are hard to picture until you sit with them for a moment. Last week we published the Prime Day 2026 metrics, and the one...
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Rewinding the exponential: How we keep hardware usage down
Our strategies to optimize our data pipeline throughput without compromising data quality.
Read moreIvanti warns of Connect Secure zero-day exploited in attacks
Ivanti urged customers on Tuesday to immediately patch an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) remote access gateway. [...]
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“That was not received well at Nintendo” – as GTA 6 and Zelda are lampooned by Saturday Night Live, former employees recall Elon Musk Wario skit controversy
As American comedy series Saturday Night Live airs a sketch lampooning the November showdown between Grand Theft Auto 6 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of...
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GTA 6 PC release planned for early 2027, report claims, which could mean we’re playing in time for GTA Online 2: Vice City 4 U or whatever they call it
Well, that's happening quicker than I'd anticipated. This is both what the actress said to the bishop and my immediate reaction to a report which claims...
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