Crypto
"Crypto is dead": Y Combinator's 2025 startup requests spark fears for future of blockchain
"Anyone notice a trend here? "IT’S ALL F***ING OVER."
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robots
Elon Musk shares "dangerous" Optimus plans, reveals "perverse" Telsa self-driving feature
Billionaire has plans to make Tesla robots' working life even more "hardcore" than his own 100-hour weeks.
Data Center
A few lines of Linux code could cut data centre emissions by 30%, academics claim
"It’s like rearranging the pipeline at a manufacturing plant so you don’t have people running around all the time.”
GenAI
AI taskers claim "break the model" testing gave them PTSD
Human GenAI trainers expected to "immerse themselves in deeply unsettling, often traumatic, scenarios".
GenAI
Regulatory roadblocks are crashing GenAI progress, data leaders warn
Bureaucratic meddling risks running generative AI development off the road.
Open Source
New open weight standard untethers the subconscious of AI
Framework enables the sharing of deep parameters which guide a model's behaviour and shape its responses.
Big Ideas For 2025
Big Ideas for 2025: Bridging the AI education gap
"This is a dangerous crossroads. The traditional ways of teaching machine learning through maths are not accessible."
security
How Cloudflare defeated a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack
"The systems worked as intended..."
Open Source
Opengrep vs Semgrep: Rival security firms close ranks to fork open source code analysis tool
Competitors launch "coordinated industry-wide stand against commercialisation and single vendor interest".
science
Smartwatches can spot hidden signs of depression and predict future moods
Wearable devices could be redeployed to assess your state of mind and forecast mental health challenges.
security
Cyber shadows: A new name for an emerging AI ecosystem threat
GenAI is amplifying threats and exposing hidden dangers, increasing organisational and systemic risk.
openai
OpenAI rumours go nuclear: Trump, p(doom) and the truth about superintelligence
Is the world about to end? Are billions of people going to be fired? Or is OpenAI just planning to release a slightly better LLM?