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• Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting”

  Carmack: "Power tools" like AI are "central to all the progress in computers."

• Meta’s surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality

  Touted 10M token context proves elusive, while early performance tests disappoint experts.

• NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?

  Used by nation-states and crime groups, fast flux bypasses many common defenses.

• Gmail unveils end-to-end encrypted messages. Only thing is: It’s not true E2EE.

  Yes, encryption/decryption occurs on end-user devices, but there's a catch.

• AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%

  Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.

• MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together

  Model context protocol standardizes how AI uses data sources, supported by OpenAI and Anthropic.

• What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.

  A safe and proper rewrite should take years not months.

• Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data

  New Spectral JPEG XL compression reduces file sizes, making spectral imaging more practical.

• Oracle has reportedly suffered 2 separate breaches exposing thousands of customers‘ PII

  Alleged breaches affect Oracle Cloud and Oracle Health.

• Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from… Gemini

  Hacking LLMs has always been more art than science. A new attack on Gemini could change that.

• OpenAI’s new AI image generator is potent and bound to provoke

  The visual apocalypse is probably nigh, but perhaps seeing was never believing.

• Broadcom’s VMware says Siemens pirated “thousands” of copies of its software

  VMware claims Siemens showed it a list of the VMware products it's using unlicensed.

• Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

  AI bots hungry for data are taking down FOSS sites by accident, but humans are fighting back.

• Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers

  Some European cloud companies have seen an increase in business.

• You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom

  CHM releases code for 2012 AlexNet breakthrough that proved "deep learning" could work.

• Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

  New approach punishes AI companies that ignore "no crawl" directives.

• Anthropic’s new AI search feature digs through the web for answers

  Anthropic Claude just caught up with a ChatGPT feature from 2023—but will it be accurate?

• Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average

  Mollick proclaims "the meme Turing Test has been passed," but a new study offers a key caveat.

• Nvidia announces DGX desktop “personal AI supercomputers”

  Asus, Dell, HP, and others to produce powerful desktop machines that run AI models locally.

• Nvidia announces “Rubin Ultra” and “Feynman” AI chips for 2027 and 2028

  CEO Jensen Huang says new chips will power robots and billions of AI agents.