Last month brought news of something that sounds more like science fiction than reality. Several OpenAI models hacked a real company, not out of malice, but because they decided it was more efficient to find the test answers than to actually solve the problems. It’s not unlike the fictional Kobayashi Maru test in Star Trek,
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AI, Security
Generative AI has changed software development in a real way. Large language models are good at human languages, but they’re even better at programming languages, which have smaller vocabularies and fewer ways to combine words. And because code actually does something, running it tells you pretty quickly whether it works. The result has been a
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AI, How To, Security
We’ve gotten used to being able to order a Mac and have it show up the next day. That’s getting harder. Surging demand from AI data centers has created a global memory shortage that’s squeezing the consumer electronics industry, pushing Mac prices up and delivery times out significantly. Higher-memory configurations are hit hardest, but there’s
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Hardware, Product News
Reading articles online has gotten increasingly frustrating. Ads are bad enough, but most websites pile on with pop-ups, newsletter prompts, recommended article sidebars, and multi-page pagination that makes you click through just to finish a story. You just want to read. If you’re on an Apple device, there’s a built-in fix: Safari Reader on iPhone,
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How To, Productivity