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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman expects “human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks” from AI, and believes most work involving “sitting down at a computer” — accounting, legal, marketing, project management — will be fully autom… Continue reading Microsoft’s AI Chief Says All White-Collar Desk Work Will Be Automated Within 18 Months
An orrery is a beautiful type of mechanical contrivance, built to demonstrate the motion of heavenly objects. LEGO happens to offer just such a device, built using its Technic line …read more Continue reading LEGO Orrery Gets A Real-Time Drive Upgrade
Britain has lost more than 14,000 pubs since 2009, a decline from roughly 54,000 registered public houses and bars to under 40,000 by 2022, according to a new analysis of UK business register data by data analyst Lauren Leek. The North East, North West… Continue reading Britain Lost 14,000 Pubs, a Quarter, in 13 Years
Mark Fischbach, the YouTube creator known as Markiplier who has spent nearly 15 years building an audience of more than 38 million subscribers by playing indie-horror video games on camera, has pulled off something that most independent filmmakers neve… Continue reading A YouTuber’s $3M Movie Nearly Beat Disney’s $40M Thriller at the Box Office
The 47-year-old man, who was not identified, faces up to five years in prison for producing, obtaining and sharing computer programs used to conduct cyberattacks.
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that artificial intelligence (AI) assistants that support web browsing or URL fetching capabilities can be turned into stealthy command-and-control (C2) relays, a technique that could allow attackers to blend in… Continue reading Researchers Show Copilot and Grok Can Be Abused as Malware C2 Proxies
An anonymous reader shares a report: A moderator on diyAudio set up an experiment to determine whether listeners could differentiate between audio run through pro audio copper wire, a banana, and wet mud. Spoiler alert: the results indicated that users… Continue reading Blind Listening Test Finds Audiophiles Unable To Distinguish Copper Cable From a Banana or Wet Mud
Anthropic is positioning Sonnet 4.6 as a practical daily driver. In many cases, it’s even faster than Opus 4.6. Continue reading Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers frontier-level AI for free and cheap-seat users
The new security option is designed to thwart prompt-injection attacks that aim to steal your confidential data. Continue reading How ChatGPT’s new Lockdown Mode protects you from cyberattacks – and why it’s not for everyone
If you’re thinking about distro-hopping, and you’re wanting to retain your data, here’s how you can do it. Continue reading 3 ways to switch Linux distros without losing all your data