Instead of hiding on the laptops and servers defenders watch most closely, a China-nexus group spent close to a decade hidden inside the Linux login system itself. Sygnia, which tracks the group as Velvet Ant, says it backdoored the PAM and OpenSSH components that decide who is allowed to sign in, planting its access where ordinary cleanup could not reach it. The network it targeted had no
Jenny owns a crematorium. John’s propane company gives her a $20 billion investment in return for 5 percent of her operation. Jenny throws $10 billion into the incinerator, then pays John $10 billion to buy propane to burn that money to ashes. John reports that his AI investments have generated $10 billion in revenue this quarter and that he owns 5 percent of a $100 billion business. A reporter from Forbes is assigned to profile John and Jenny, and over the course of his research, he becomes embroiled in a passionate but confusing three-way love affair with them, which eventually turns into a polyamorous common-law marriage. His profile is glowing, but light on financial details. — Andrew Singleton , AI Economics for Dummies Tags: ai
Full autonomy is rare, but Ukraine is installing AI modules on drones and robots.
A Ukrainian national extradited from Ireland to the United States last year has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges tied to the Conti ransomware operation. [...]
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The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C valuation of €11.7 billion.
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OpenAI now lets Codex users bank their rate-limit resets and trigger them manually instead of watching them expire on a fixed schedule. If you hit your usage cap mid-session, you can cash in a saved reset right away instead of waiting. Users on the Go, Plus, Pro, and Business plans each get one free reset to start. Plus and Pro users can also invite friends to unlock extra resets. The article OpenAI kicks off the AI price wars with flexible rate-limit resets for its Codex coding agent appeared first on The Decoder .
The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.
Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."
You'd be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between "sort of useful at a few things" and "utterly disastrous, why did I even try, can it honestly not even set a timer." But the wildest thing just happened: Apple put out a new version of […]
Claude Fable 5 tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 64.9 points and sets records in five of ten benchmarks. But the gain over Opus 4.8 is just 5.7 percent at double the token price. Safety filters with fallback routing push costs even higher. The article Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 costs twice as much for 5.7 percent more performance appeared first on The Decoder .
More than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) are distributing a Linux rootkit and infostealer malware targeting credentials and access tokens. [...]
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SpaceX shares soared on Friday as trading commenced on the Nasdaq.
Elon Musk's stake in SpaceX is worth more than $766 billion. Combined with his Tesla holdings, Musk's net worth as of Friday is roughly $1.05 trillion.
As SpaceX prepared to hit the Nasdaq following its record IPO, Elon Musk's second-in-command didn't dismiss the possibility of a Tesla tie-up.
Changes since langchain-anthropic==1.4.5 release(anthropic): 1.4.6 ( #38105 ) fix(langchain,anthropic): confine file-search results and tighten anthropic allowed_prefixes ( #38106 ) release(core): 1.4.6 ( #38061 ) feat(core,partners): add package version tracking to tracing metadata ( #35295 ) chore(infra): bump mypy to 2.1 and unify type-check config across the monorepo ( #36470 ) feat(standard-tests): validate tool call chunks during streaming ( #34707 ) test(anthropic): make expected warnings explicit ( #38044 ) test(anthropic): make tests robust to gateway base URL ( #38043 )
Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.
The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.
Stack Overflow has been the internet’s go-to troubleshooting ground for software developers for more than 15 years — the place The post Coding agents have questions, too — so Stack Overflow built them a home appeared first on The New Stack .
Elon Musk is now officially the world's first trillionaire. That is a colossal amount of wealth (and by proxy, power) for one individual to have. Its scale - a thousand times more than a billion - is difficult to fathom for those of us who aren't among the 3,363 billionaires that currently exist in our […]
Elon Musk's net worth has passed the trillion-dollar mark after SpaceX's IPO. His net worth, which was hovering around $800 billion before the IPO, includes the value of his 4.8 billion shares in SpaceX, along with his wealth from his other companies, like Tesla. Shares of SPCX opened at $150 and have remained well above […]