New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out. In a blog post running more than 3,100 words, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith addressed the recent spate of viral clips from graduation ceremonies, like former Google CEO […]
Anthropic's security team found that its Mythos Preview AI model can turn security patches for Firefox and the Windows kernel into working exploits within hours, for a few thousand dollars and no specialized knowledge. Eight complete attack chains were finished before Microsoft's auto-updates had reached a single device. The old patch rhythm is obsolete, Anthropic argues. The article Anthropic study shows AI needs hours, not weeks, to build exploits from security patches appeared first on The Decoder .
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politics, tech influence, and tech shenanigans in Washington, DC. (If you're not a subscriber, you can get on board here.) We're back after a two-week hiatus, during most of which I was gallivanting in the Netherlands for a family wedding, and a trip […]
If you can see everything, you may see nothing at all. That’s what SREs and DevOps engineers are learning as The post Observability overload is drowning engineers appeared first on The New Stack .
If you've uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won't admit it right now. A group of independent musicians is suing Google, claiming that it illegally used songs they uploaded to YouTube to train its Lyria 3 model. Google has filed […]
About a year ago, Google demoed a diffusion model at its I/O developer conference, but went quiet about the technology The post Google’s DiffusionGemma is 4x faster than its other Gemma models appeared first on The New Stack .
On Tuesday, Anthropic debuted Fable 5, the first — and much-anticipated — generally available Mythos-class model. Anthropic says it can work The post Fable 5: Guardrails and burn rate are annoying users, who say it’s still better than Opus 4.8 appeared first on The New Stack .
Instagram is going to let you tweak what its algorithm shows you on your main feed. With the Your Algorithm feature, "you can now see the topics we think you're interested in, and change them, across all the major parts of Instagram," according to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri. Right now, the feature will only surface […]
The fastest-moving conversation in AI developer tooling this week began with a job description. Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code The post The Anthropic leader who built Claude Code says he ditched prompting — now he just writes loops. appeared first on The New Stack .
Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Stable 149 (149.0.7827.137) for iOS; it'll become available on App Store in the next few hours. This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Chrome Release Team Google Chrome
Amazon has launched a new feature for its Echo and Echo Kids smart speakers called Sleep Studio that's designed to make the daily transition to bedtime more enticing for kids and less stressful for parents and caregivers. The feature uses a combination of bedtime stories, relaxing sounds, and guided meditations along with scheduling and customization […]
Anthropic released Claude Fable, its first Mythos-class AI model, yesterday and it's already causing concerns inside Microsoft. Sources tell me that Microsoft is limiting the use of Claude Fable 5 for employees because of Anthropic's new data retention requirements. While Microsoft quickly rolled out Claude Fable 5 to its GitHub Copilot and Foundry customers, I'm […]
On Wednesday, AWS announced that its Graviton5 processor is now generally available and powers two new Amazon EC2 instances: M9g The post AWS can now mathematically prove your VMs are isolated appeared first on The New Stack .
Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Beta 150 (150.0.7871.13) for Android. It's now available on Google Play . You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log . For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog , and for details on web platform updates, check here . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Chrome Release Team Google Chrome
Last week, Microsoft shut down 73 of its own GitHub repositories following a malware attack that would steal developers’ credentials The post Microsoft pulled 73 GitHub repos after malware attack — but still won’t say who’s compromised appeared first on The New Stack .
Google is making some changes to how it saves your interactions with Search. In an email sent to users, Google says it will save the images, files, audio, and video you use to search under a new "Search Services History" setting. That includes the images you search for with Google Lens, recordings from its real-time […]