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Oracle got AI working on itself only this year

But it wasn’t until April that its own employees received a broadly useful AI tool. Co-CEO Clay Magouyrk admitted, “I don’t think we figured out how to make AI really that useful for ourselves.” He was describing…

The ideal database for AI agents doesn't exist yet, says Percona CEO

Farkas spoke to The Register at the company's Percona Live event in Amsterdam, where members of the often-fractious open source database community gathered to discuss best practices, case studies, and the future. Percona…

Why I rely on this Google Meet feature to manage discussions when everyone is in the same room

It started because I had a nice pen, and then stuck because I tried every new note-taking app before anyone else. The apps got faster at typing and recording over the years, but none of them fixed my main problem. As a…

US cyber agency endorses ‘decoy’ tactics

The agency said it had developed the new guidance to help defensive teams plan and implement strategies for dealing with adversaries using legitimate stolen credentials, native tools, and other living-off-the-land (LOTL)…

The Lenovo Legion Go Steam version has had a massive price cut

Catch this one while it’s still live: Lenovo has cut the Legion Go Steam Handheld Gaming Console to £399.99 as part of its EE Game Day offers this September , down from £649, a straight saving of £249.01, or roughly 38…

Anthropic has set up a bio research lab for physical experiments

Anthropic has established a biology research lab in the San Francisco Bay Area to conduct physical experiments, according to . Eric Kauderer-Abrams, the company's Head of Life Sciences, has confirmed the lab's existence…

I downgraded to YouTube Premium Lite for a year, but realized full Premium is worth every cent

Beyond expanding my cloud storage, the subscription includes YouTube Premium Lite . While my video viewing habits are modest, Google's addition of background play and offline downloads was welcome. Yet these perks fell…

AI watermarking could make LLM guardrail adherence unpredictable — and that could be a big problem for the EU AI Act

The company's researchers found that SynthID-Text can change whether models refuse harmful requests, their susceptibility to prompt injection, which tools AI agent choose and more. However, at its core, SynthID-Text and…

‘Maybe a year’: Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI

“Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” he said, about how long Congress has to put guardrails around artificial intelligence. He was speaking at a closed, hour-long briefing at the Capitol convened by Senator…

Michael Sheen's 'constructive' meeting with first minister over toxic dumping claims

Buried with Michael Sheen explores toxic chemical dumping in 14 sites in Wales and England. Sheen initially said an offer to meet the first minister "was not taken up" before the documentary was broadcast in August. On…