At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills
Gartner thinks we’re headed to a hybrid AI model where you offload stuff to the desktop whenever possible
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The latest in Computing Science education across Scotland and beyond
South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot
Tender calls for providers to power free service with local LLMs, government to supply some GPUs
Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop ‘theft’ of content
PM frames sweeping new regulations as the equivalent of labour movement touchstones like winning a minimum wage
Google Cloud's VMware service loses resilience due to a dud update
As VMware itself warns of critical flaw in its load balancer
[AINews] not much happened today
a continuation: Codex adding 1M users a day now.
Midnight social media curfew proposed for older UK teens
Teens will be able to opt out of the restrictions - campaigners have criticised them as being piecemeal.
OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark
Developers worry encrypted MultiAgentV2 messages will make debugging and auditing harder
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.
Trump admin puts Americans in Congo on "do-not-board" list, barring return
Citizens must now spend 21 days in a third country before they are allowed to come home.
Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs
Remember when last month's 206 CVEs seemed eye-watering? Yeah, those were the days
AI Optimism vs. AI Pessimism
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Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.