Excessive friendliness may cause users to forget they're talking to a very confident autocomplete A study into how humans interact with chatbots suggests the fastest way to make an LLM feel human isn't making it smarter – it's making it seem nicer.…
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Lees meerUS-based cloud providers could have to disclose certain data under American legal orders The European Commission has awarded four contracts designed to advance cloud sovereignty in the EU, but one uses services from S3NS, a joint venture between Tha…
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Lees meerOut-of-band or out of control? Microsoft has pushed out an out-of-band update to address the restart loop that hit some Windows Server devices after its April update.…
Lees meerCompanies get to keep IP developed for government projects The UK government is opening £80 million in AI procurement talks with tech firms, drawing on its £500 million sovereign capability fund.…
Lees meerBit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts UK AI datacenter capacity could migrate away from London as power shortages, planning constraints and reduced reliance on low-latency connect…
Lees meerWorkstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdown HP is quietly pulling the plug on its Teradici-derived remote desktop business, shelving HP Anyware and its zero client hardware barely a few years after betting big on…
Lees meerNon profit loses several staffers including its executive director Ruby Central, a nonprofit that supports the Ruby programming language ecosystem, is in "real financial jeopardy," according to a missive from its board members.…
Lees meerCommittee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use MPs are probing whether radically different, low-energy chip designs can stop AI from turning the UK's power grid into a bottleneck.…
Lees meer£330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platform The UK government is considering ending Palantir's involvement in a central NHS data platform after coming under fire from MPs, unions, and campaigners.…
Lees meerWouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket nailed the landing this weekend, but failed at the crucial part of delivering a satellite to a usable orbit.…
Lees meerWe've been here before. This time, we may not get out Opinion Fans of the creative arts often find out where creators gather to talk among themselves, then sneak in to eavesdrop on what those masters of the art talk about. Golden insights, daring c…
Lees meerBlames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incident Vercel, the company that created the open source Next.js web development framework, has a data leak that led to compromise of some customer credentials, and b…
Lees meerTests scheduled for May can’t come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown NASA has revealed it’s working on a plan called “The Big Bang” that it hopes will extend the working lives of the Voyager probes.…
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Lees meerPassing the buck, and the blame, down the road shows lack of AI companies' maturity OPINION AI vendors: "You need to use AI to fight AI threats (and do everything else in your corporate IT environment)." Also AI vendors: "That's not a security flaw…
Lees meerAgent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed Not only is hardware memory scarce these days, but context memory, the conversational data exchanged with AI models, can be an issue too.…
Lees meerFrom August 17, the outfit will collect customer metadata by default unless you pay for the top tier Unless a customer pays for the most expensive enterprise license, or the law forbids it, Atlassian is going to collect their data to train its AI mo…
Lees meerPause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software Anthropic withheld its Mythos bug-finding model from public release due to concerns that it would enable attackers to find and exploit vulnerabil…
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