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Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an AI model for questions about DNA
Hugging Face has released Carbon-X, an open-source AI model that lets researchers ask questions about DNA in everyday language. Users paste in a genetic sequence, ask a question, …
AI agents are ready to shop. Some retailers are wary.
Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the democratizing of labor that ordinarily would only be avai…
Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom
An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see whether an unreleased version of Claude could make sco…
Web Summit survey: 59% in tech say AI has increased their workload
Almost six in 10 people working in tech say AI has added to their workload rather than cutting it. That is the headline finding of Web Summit’s first State of the Industry report,…
Agility’s Digit 5 humanoid robot will run on Nvidia as it heads for Nasdaq
Agility Robotics will use Nvidia’s IGX Thor modules as the only onboard computer in Digit 5, the next version of its humanoid robot. The company announced the deal on Thursday. Nv…
Adobe becomes AI fan experience partner of BWT Alpine F1 team
Adobe and the BWT Alpine Formula One Team have signed a global premium partnership. Under the deal, Adobe becomes the team’s official AI fan experience partner, providing software…
The world’s first triple 200-megapixel camera phone is great
Oppo's Find X10 Pro Max is the first phone with a triple 200-megapixel camera, which you're likely to see as either a masterful feat of engineering or a load of hyped-up marketing…
Nebius borrows $3.5bn from Citi as it says AI compute prices keep rising
Nebius has signed a $3.5 billion loan facility with Citi to build more data centres and buy GPUs. The Amsterdam-based AI cloud company announced the deal on Thursday. The secured …
Musk says training Tesla’s Optimus robots is like raising a toddler
Tesla needs to build between 10,000 and 20,000 Optimus humanoid robots so they can learn to perform tasks through practice, Elon Musk said during the company’s third-quarter earni…
The AI Agent Nobody Owns: Watch Expert Webinar On Your Newest Insider Threat
Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works with…
Spotify hits 306 million subscribers and expects 316 million by year end
Spotify ended the third quarter with 306 million paying subscribers, up 9% from a year earlier, according to its third-quarter update, published on Thursday. Monthly active users …
GitLab warns of new max severity code execution vulnerability
GitLab has released security patches for a maximum-severity Regular Expression Compiler flaw that can let remote attackers run arbitrary code on vulnerable servers. [...]
333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email
For 3 days this month, 333 exit nodes were hacked in hopes of stealing sensitive data.
Musk’s backing for a SpaceX-Tesla merger rattled insiders, Reuters reports
Some of the people working on a possible SpaceX-Tesla merger worry that Elon Musk’s public comments could draw shareholder scrutiny and delay the process by several weeks, Reuters…
Railway Says Intruder May Have Accessed Customer Secrets, Urges Credential Rotation
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider Railway on Wednesday disclosed "anomalous activity" related to systems that store customer environment variables. Upon further investigation,…
UN says we're going to blow past 1.5º warming, offers a "now what?" answer
Best case is now an overshoot to 1.8º C, accompanied by massive carbon removal.
Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots
Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmare. It told owners that "your secrets are safe with me," but…
Tesla’s profit falls 43% as it starts building Optimus robots
Tesla made $787 million in net income in the third quarter, down from $1.37 billion a year earlier, according to its third-quarter update, published on Wednesday. Revenue was flat…
OpenCode Flaw Lets Malicious MCP Servers Execute Code During Sign-In on Windows and WSL
A flaw in the OpenCode AI coding agent allowed a malicious or hijacked MCP server to run code on a developer's Windows or WSL machine when the developer signed in. OpenCode connec…
Anthropic previews Claude Duet, an AI agent that works in the background
Anthropic has opened a waitlist for Claude Duet, a new app that lets its AI assistant keep working in the background while users are away. The company announced the research previ…
Zoe Kleinman: PHP is the cyber equivalent of an unexploded bomb
It has been a dramatic, public and global response, but the cyber event hasn't happened yet.
'500 new vulnerabilities' found in government, says AI minister
'500 new vulnerabilities' found in government, says AI minister
ESET says Russia-linked hackers hid malware traffic in Yggdrasil network
ESET linked hackers to Russia, using a decentralised network to hide their malware during an attack on a Ukrainian grain company. The security company says it is the first documen…
Your enterprise has more AI than you think, and security can’t see it all
Over the years, enterprises have been in an all-out sprint to adopt the latest and greatest AI models. In that sprint, the average AI stack has grown quickly to include an array o…