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CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3

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OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex

OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade." This isn't the mysterious AI-powered device OpenAI is working on with former Apple designer Jony Ive, however. As shown in the teaser, OpenAI is launching the device in partnership with Work Louder, a company that sells an array

Malicious Perplexity Chrome Extension Intercepted Searches and Address Bar Input

Microsoft has found a malicious Chrome extension that posed as the AI search engine Perplexity and quietly logged what people searched for. It routed every query and every character typed into the address bar through an attacker-controlled server before redirecting users to real results. Microsoft says Google removed it from the store after responsible disclosure. The extension was called "

The Apple Disk II Controller Card

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Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data

The EU wants Google to share search data with competitors and open up AI on Android, but Google alleges major privacy risks.

Implement a backup strategy for Amazon Quick Sight BI assets

In this post, we cover best practices for implementing an effective backup strategy for BI assets in Quick Sight. We start by covering the options for selecting the assets to include in your backup, then explain the high-level APIs available for that purpose, and finalize with sample code to help you get started quickly.

Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API

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DiScoFormer: One transformer for density and score, across distributions