Human intelligence may matter more in the AI age
… According to a former CIA officer, AI may help create false documents, but this fakery will give old-fashioned human intelligence fresh relevance. …
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Cryptographers place $5,000 bet whether quantum will matter
…factoring and discrete logarithm problems – would take about 20 times fewer physical qubits than previously estimated, Google researchers claim . That doesn't clarify when a quantum computer might be cryptographically relevant. NIST…
The end of Linux i486 support looks nigh
…The change has been a long time coming, and would begin the process of removing processor architecture support from the kernel for the first time since 2012 , when support for 80386 processors…
Google unleashes Gemini AI agents on the dark web
… "We look at the relevance of each of these alerts. …
Google taps Intel for another round of custom network chips
…that reads like a desperate attempt to convince the public that its Datacenter and Networking divisions are still relevant. Intel CFO David Zinsner had alluded to increased demand for these services during…
Google says it will let publishers opt out of AI overviews
…The News Media Association (whose membership includes publishers of UK national newspapers The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph) also noted [PDF] concerns around the processes, transparency, and timescale for ranking complaints, and…
Microsoft taps Claude to make Copilot Cowork a better agent
…said. "Cowork pulls relevant inputs from email, meetings, and files, schedules prep time on the calendar, then produces a connected set of deliverables: a briefing document, supporting analysis, and a client-ready…
Apple pushes Maps ads in free business bundle
… "Ads on Maps will appear when users search in Maps, and can appear at the top of a user's search results based on relevance, as well as at the top of a new Suggested Places experience in Maps, which will display recommendations based on what's trending nearby, the user's recent searches, and more,"… …
US cloud giants not invited to Euro digital dosh project
…The ECB will only take a decision to issue the digital euro once the relevant regulation is approved by the European Parliament and Council of the European Union. If this happens during…
Water company spins out homegrown AI after LLMs failed it
…Rozum , from the Slavic word for "reason" and now an AI startup under Bednarski, is a model orchestration system that operates at inference time. It relies on an ensemble of commercial models…