Arstechnia

• 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.

• Farewell Photoshop? Google’s new AI lets you edit images by asking.

  New experimental AI allows no-skill photo editing, including removing watermarks. But it's not perfect.

• Large enterprises scramble after supply-chain attack spills their secrets

  tj-actions/changed-files corrupted to run credential-stealing memory scraper.

• Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s “hidden objectives”

  Anthropic trains custom AI to hide objectives, but different "personas" spill their secrets.

• AI search engines cite incorrect news sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says

  CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

• AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead

  Cursor AI tells user, "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work."