When I think about one of the most critical thinking tools in the history of civilization, I think about the notebook. Yes, I mean the paper-filled wonder that so many of the world’s greatest thinkers have used to capture...
[Leaded Solder] took on an interesting challenge. The BBC, apparently, produced a game console known as the BBC Bridge Companion that connected to your TV and helped you learn to play Bridge back in 1985. At £200, we doubt many...
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After acknowledging last month that unreleased AI models committed what for human perpetrators would be computer crimes, OpenAI now says it cannot rule out the possibility that Astra, a pending model release not involved in its...
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If you’re water cooling a PC, it’s generally accepted that you need some interface between the coolant and the chips — a water block of copper or aluminum that carries the heat-removing fluid. What if you just…didn’t? That’s...
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Sandboxing a Linux process usually means spending a lot of effort deciding what it isn’t allowed to see. You might put it in a mount namespace, bind-mount a few directories into place, hide some others, add a chroot, and...
OpenAI said it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra over concerns about its cybersecurity prowess.
