Technologie

OpenAI appoints Jill Hazelbaker as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer

Jill Hazelbaker will join OpenAI as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, leading the company’s global communications and corporate positioning.

OpenAI Blog · EN

How Cisco defends at machine speed with OpenAI

Cisco combines network intelligence with OpenAI models to strengthen enterprise security. Learn how it is building more adaptive defenses.

OpenAI Blog · EN

Accelerating engineering for the physical world

Discover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.

OpenAI Blog · EN

F3 Lightning: How Meta Accelerates Ads ML Features to Production at Scale

Facebook Feature Framework (F3) is Meta’s framework for authoring, compiling, and serving the machine learning features underlying ads ranking models, where a single request can require more than 20,000 features. We first presented F3 at AI @ Scale 2020. F3 reduced execution computational costs by compiling all features into a single merged graph, but that [...] Read More... The post F3 Lightning: How Meta Accelerates Ads ML Features to Production at Scale appeared first on Engineering at Meta .

Meta Engineering · EN

Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world

Louis Erbkamm built the first prototype in his free time. Now GitHub Copilot helps him maintain it alone. The post Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

GitHub Blog · EN

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, the authors classify is as a "blog post", but it's paper-shaped) found that frontier models, in particular GPT-6 Astra, can both interpret and modify the raw weights of a machine learning model - literally a text description of the model containing a bunch of floating point numbers. I've been playing with one of the examples from the paper and I'm delighted to share that Qwen 3.8 27B running on my laptop

Simon Willison · EN

How to choose the right gaming monitor for you

If you're looking for a gaming monitor upgrade (or even your first), here's what you should consider.

Engadget · EN

Don't throw away your old AirPods — do this instead

AirPods aren't useless even after you've had them for years and get a new pair. Repurpose them with a few tricks.

Engadget · EN

How to make your older Android phones last longer

Your Android phone can last much longer if you take steps to protect and optimize it. Try these tactics to extend your phone's life.

Engadget · EN

Razer unveils the Raiju V3 Pro Signature Edition PS5 controller

It sure is pretty and will likely be expensive.

Engadget · EN

How to use your phone to find hidden cameras

When you feel wary, a quick check might provide some peace of mind.

Engadget · EN

Itch.io adds a filter for games with gen AI disclosures

Your turn, Steam.

Engadget · EN

Don't throw away your laptop's old SSDs — do this instead

Get some extra life out of your unused SSDs by converting them into external storage devices.

Engadget · EN

Netflix thinks AI might save you from scrolling aimlessly for something to watch

The tab will initially offer suggestions based on a range of AI-generated themes.

Engadget · EN

Steve Jobs on His Final Quarterly Analyst Call: ‘We Think the Open Versus Closed Argument Is Just a Smokescreen’

After linking to it earlier today, I re-read Steve Jobs’s remarks from his last appearance on a quarterly analyst call. It’s a banger of a good read: You know, even if Google were right, and the real issue is “closed” versus “open,” it is worthwhile to remember that open systems don’t always win. Take Microsoft’s “Plays For Sure” music strategy, which used the PC model — which Android uses as well — of separating the software components from the hardware components. Even Microsoft finally abandoned this “open” strategy in favor of copying Apple’s integrated approach with their Zune player, unf

Daring Fireball · EN

Safari 27.3 Beta Adds Vertical Tabs and Adaptive Dark Mode

Juli Clover, MacRumors: With iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, and macOS Golden Gate 27.3, Apple is making major updates to Safari. The browser is getting a Vertical Tabs layout, which can be used instead of the standard horizontal tab bar. It’s a change that pairs well with the iPhone Duo’s larger display, but it is available across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Vertical Tabs are located on the left side of the display and use icons by default to save space, but there is an option to make the tab bar wider to show website titles as well. Vertical Tabs work with both Topics and Tab Groups to keep things organiz

Daring Fireball · EN

MIT Researchers Used GPT-6 Astra To Edit Qwen's Open Weights Directly, Boosting Math Scores

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) reported today that they used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra language model to raise a small, open source Qwen model's math score roughly sixfold by directly editing its weights -- the numerical parameters that govern its behavior. Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang and Omar Khattab described their work in a research blog post published November 2. They call the approach "weight-space programming" and tested Astra's abili

Slashdot · EN

SUSE To Cut One In Ten Employees Because of AI

SUSE plans to cut roughly 10% of its 1,900-person workforce, with CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen saying "automation and AI" are reducing the need for some roles and allowing the open source software company to operate with less overhead and flatter management structures. "We are announcing a reduction of SUSE's global workforce of approximately 10 percent," said Van Leeuwen in an email. "These decisions are painful for our people, our culture, and our open source community, but they are necessary for us to adapt and build a sustainable, resilient SUSE for the long term." The Register reports: Van

Slashdot · EN

Google Will Turn Off Search For Schools That Reject AI

Google will disable AI tools by default for K-12 students early next year unless school administrators explicitly enable them, but schools that choose to block AI entirely will also lose student access to Google Search. The New York Times reports: Executives at the tech giant said they wanted to be responsive to educators and parents who have asked for more control in how children interact with A.I. But there is a catch: Schools that choose to restrict A.I. entirely will also lose access to Google search. A.I. features are now a standard part of Google's commercially available search engine. "

Slashdot · EN

Fujifilm To Boost Tape Production 5x As AI Fuels Archiving Demand

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its production capacity fivefold for an unlikely beneficiary of the AI era: magnetic tape. Fujifilm attributes the surge in archiving demand to the spread of generative AI, which the company remarked is producing "exponential growth" in data needs worldwide. The 5x increase in production capacity will be measured against fiscal year 2025 production levels. The investment in Fujifilm's Kanagawa Factory, Odawara site will

Slashdot · EN

Binance Says Hackers Used Fake Job Interviews, AI Tool to Steal $6.3 Billion In Crypto

Binance says hackers spent months infiltrating its systems through fake job interviews, a tampered developer tool and compromised internal AI tools before stealing $6.34 billion in crypto in the Oct. 29 attack. Co-CEO Richard Teng said Binance has replenished 98% of the affected assets, and that it is still in the process of purchasing outstanding, more illiquid assets. CNBC reports: Preparations for the attack began in June, when a Binance Wallet DevOps engineer downloaded a tampered Homebrew installation "to install a popular AI coding tool after searching for it on a search engine," accordi

Slashdot · EN

Anthropic is still grappling with the economics of compute

At a moment when Anthropic's compute margins should be getting better, they’re getting worse.

TechCrunch · EN

CrowdStrike to shell out nearly $500M for 2 AI security startups as the market for securing agents takes off

CrowdStrike said it will buy Fiddler AI, which makes AI agent observability software, and Dreadnode, which helps companies automate AI security testing.

TechCrunch · EN

Netflix’s new AI Discover tab helps you find something to watch based on your mood

The first experimental feature under the tab will allow users to get recommendations based on what they're currently in the mood for.

TechCrunch · EN