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Lees meerLLMs still struggle with accurate text within graphics hands on OpenAI's GPT-5, unveiled on Thursday, is supposed to be the company's flagship model, offering better reasoning and more accurate responses than previous-gen products. But when we aske…
Lees meerCampaigners brand Home Office’s lack of transparency as ‘astonishing’ and ‘dangerous’ updated Privacy groups report a surge in UK police facial recognition scans of databases secretly stocked with passport photos lacking parliamentary oversight.…
Lees meerTo keep toxic content from damaging brands, both people and machines have a place Human content moderators still outperform AI when it comes to recognizing policy-violating material, but they also cost significantly more.…
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Lees meerIn misinformation, Russia might be the top dog but the Chinese are coming warns former NSA boss DEF CON A cache of documents uncovered by Vanderbilt University has revealed disturbing details about how a Chinese company is building up a database of…
Lees meerBugs in the current LTS are getting squished The latest point release of the current Ubuntu LTS is here, with a new kernel and a host of improvements for server and desktop alike.…
Lees meerFun feature found in Debian 13: send your selected text to China – in plaintext As Trixie gets ready to début, a little-known app is hogging the limelight: StarDict, which sends whatever text you select, unencrypted, to servers in China.…
Lees meerTells The Reg China's ability to p0wn Redmond's wares 'gives me a political aneurysm' Comment Roger Cressey served two US presidents as a senior cybersecurity and counter-terrorism advisor and currently worries he'll experience a "political aneurys…
Lees meerScience budget? Whatever. It's all about beating China and Russia NASA's Acting Administrator, Sean Duffy, has directed the US space agency to come up with a plan to deploy a nuclear reactor on the Moon.…
Lees meerNot a very smart home: crims could hijack smart-home boiler, open and close powered windows and more. Now fixed Black hat A trio of researchers has disclosed a major prompt injection vulnerability in Google's Gemini large language model-powered app…
Lees meerNew SaaS system awaits a 'fully costed and deliverable integrated plan' before it can support 280,000 employees The UK's pensions and social security department has modified a 12-year-old contract with Sopra Steria, tacking on more than £100 million…
Lees meerCampaigners brand Home Office’s lack of transparency as ‘astonishing’ and ‘dangerous’ Privacy groups report a surge in UK police facial recognition scans of databases secretly stocked with passport photos lacking parliamentary oversight.…
Lees meerModern language features plus high performance FrankenPHP app server make PHP worth another look The PHP team is considering adding a partial implementation of generics to the language, has confirmed that a pipe operator will be in the forthcoming 8…
Lees meerIt's 'more than a temporary trend,' Decodo claims Amid the furor around surging VPN usage in the UK, many users are eyeing proxies as a potential alternative to the technology.…
Lees meerHome of Manchester Baby can't bid for talent, baby Institutions in the North of England are being left out of the government's Global Talent Fund (GTF), designed to attract top scientific brains from abroad to come and work in Britain.…
Lees meerA Microsoft Exit strategy isn’t just a good idea, it’s vital. It must go a long way beyond a farewell to Redmond Opinion One of the dangers of stories based on big cash numbers is distraction. The numbers get all the attention, the bigger story beh…
Lees meerWe're going out on a limb here... why not branch out from things like retina displays and get a little more fine grained? Feature In a world where resolution, refresh rates, and frames per second can generate furious discussion, sometimes it's good…
Lees meerDocumentation was so substantial, staff measured it in feet On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your stories of helping confused, caustic, and curmudgeonly customers to crank their computers into correct …
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