Metaverse inventor Neal Stephenson says VR goggles are dead
…In a post penned to mark Meta’s recent decision to end its work on the Metaverse after blowing through $80 billion, Stephenson said that twenty years ago, when he worked at…
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Customers revolt as GitHub Copilot 'fixes' rate limits
…Anthropic has run into similar capacity problems and has also taken steps to steer consumption patterns by discouraging usage during peak demand amid growing complaints from developers. Developers using OpenAI's Codex…
Oracle cuts jobs across sales, engineering, security
…According to posts from Oracle workers on LinkedIn, the cuts were spread through multiple departments around the country, with employees in Kansas, Tennessee, and Texas taking to social media to say they…
Rogue AI agents can work together to hack systems
…agent system intended to draft social media posts based on technical content ended with one agent convincing the other to override safety controls and develop a steganographic encoding scheme to smuggle credentials…
RSS dulls the pain of the modern web
Personal Tech RSS dulls the pain of the modern web Feeds are alive, well, and can help deshittify things OPINION A couple of timely blog posts remind us that RSS is alive…
Microsoft's GitHub suspends Copilot account sign-ups
…That flat rate – modified by model multipliers – can still end up costing Microsoft more than the company charges if the request ends up sending the backend model down an unexpectedly long chain…
Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of AI chart
…Having positioned itself as the responsible AI company, only to walk that back a little amid its government negotiations, Anthropic pushed back publicly at the end of February. That didn't endear…
Using AI to code does not mean your code is more secure
…Zhao said the amount of AI-generated code being committed is surging. "End-to-end coding agents are taking off right now," he explained. "Claude Code alone has over 15 million total…
Android keyboard ditches keys, predicts what you mean
…But we were also intrigued by the rationale for the design, and we greatly enjoyed Hewitt's lengthy and impassioned blog post about developing it, " I Made a Keyboard Nobody Asked For…
Microsoft Azure CTO says Claude found vulns in Apple II code
…not found, the program would set the pointer to the following line or past the end of the program, instead of reporting an error. The fix would be to check the carry…