Datadog has added GPU monitoring to its observability stack, giving AI-hungry organizations more insight into exactly what’s happening on their most expensive silicon. AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match READ MORE The observability vendor says GPU instances now make up 14 percent of cloud compute costs as…
Microsoft is giving Copilot the power to stop suggesting edits and start making them. The company this week pushed its “agentic” Copilot features into general availability across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, turning the assistant from a sidebar prompt into something that edits documents, tweaks spreadsheets, and builds slides in place Microsoft Copilot to hijack your…
Proton’s boss has waded into the age verification fight with a warning that sounds less like child safety and more like an identity checkpoint for the entire internet. In a blog post on Thursday, Andy Yen, CEO of Proton, argues that the current push for age checks risks flipping the web from anonymous by default…
If you follow PC hardware prices, you’ll know AI demand has pushed memory prices higher as manufacturers prioritize memory for datacenters. To deal with that, you can pay through the nose, buy less memory, or … try to build your own DRAM. Dr. Semiconductor is a YouTuber who joined the platform in February and has…
The US Department of the Air Force (DAF) has selected three companies for possible nuclear microreactor projects at three of its installations under a program aimed at improving energy resilience if the electricity grid goes down. According to the DAF, the companies selected are Radiant Industries, Westinghouse, and Antares Nuclear, which have each been paired…
A majority of China-linked threat actors are using compromised routers and IoT devices worldwide, turning this gear into proxy networks to carry out further intrusions, steal sensitive data, and disrupt victim organizations’ operations, according to a joint 10-country advisory. “Anyone who is a target of China-nexus cyber actors may be impacted by the use of…
Anthropic’s release last week of Opus 4.7 came with stronger safeguards to prevent misuse. Unfortunately, these safeguards have also managed to thwart legitimate use. Opus 4.7 arrived on the heels of Anthropic’s announcement of Mythos, a model supposedly too capable of vulnerability discovery and exploitation to give to the public. While that appears to be…
With more capacity and faster charging, solid-state batteries could be the next big thing in energy. And good news: researchers may have pinned down one major reason these batteries still fail before they can reach widespread commercial use. A team at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials in Düsseldorf, Germany, published its findings in…
EXCLUSIVE It all started with a LinkedIn message, as so many employment scams do these days. A recruiter claiming to work for a blockchain firm called Genusix Labs invited Boris Vujičić, a web developer based in Serbia, to apply for a full-time, remote developer job with the company. Vujičić is no stranger to recruitment scams….
Claude users who complained about the AI service producing lower-quality responses over the past month weren’t imagining it. Anthropic on Thursday published the results of a company investigation that found three distinct changes in March and April made things worse for customers using Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, and Claude Cowork. Claude’s API, the…