Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas
It’s possible to leak PII describing 5.7 million people without breaching privacy rules
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[AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights!
Even HP resellers thought the price of toner and ink was too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel
Regulator fines PC and printer giant for rigged tender bids and collusion
Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: KFC
The Colonel stops taking online orders and may close stores after logistics partner’s systems go down
Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't: releases a frontier AI model that's actually open
Thinking Machines' first open weights model is a 975 billion parameter alternative to Chinese LLMs
Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there
Union wants to halt a "perpetual cycle" of layoffs, get back to contract bargaining.
Cadence's AuraStack agent melds AI with HPC to speed PCB, advanced packaging design
One-two punch offers a glimpse of how low-precision AI can complement high-precision simulations
Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon
While an impressive sale, the pen and switch did not break records.
Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty"
The conveneince store chain will use StorMagic instead.
Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation
Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations.
Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park
Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system.
Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2
Retail foundation leader Dave Treadwell takes over as senior leader and 19-year vet Dave Brown departs for pastures unknown