January 2025

DeepSeek’s R1 curiously tells El Reg reader: ‘My guidelines are set by OpenAI’ 2025-01-28 at 01:03 By Thomas Claburn Despite impressive benchmarks, the Chinese-made LLM is not without some interesting issues DeepSeek’s open source reasoning-capable R1 LLM family boasts impressive benchmark scores – but its erratic responses raise more questions about how these models were […]

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US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies 2025-01-28 at 00:19 By Jessica Lyons Uncle Sam will ‘no longer blindly dole out money,’ State Dept says US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has frozen nearly all foreign aid cash for a full-on government review, including funds to defend America’s allies from

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DeepSeek poses grave risk to US economy — unless we unleash American exceptionalism 2025-01-27 at 23:45 By Charles Gasparino Unless American business and policy makers are ready to unleash the full force of American exceptionalism, we will lose. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View

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Snoop Dogg loses half a million social media followers after performing at Trump crypto ball 2025-01-27 at 22:03 By Ariel Zilber The social media decline, averaging nearly 50,000 unfollows per day, comes as fans accuse the rapper of hypocrisy due to his past criticism of Trump. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News

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Nvidia deprecates CUDA support for aging architectures 2025-01-27 at 21:48 By Tobias Mann Maxwell, Pascal and Volta, oh my! But fear not, driver support is still safe The end of the road is nearing for a range of aging Nvidia graphics cards, as support for several architectures was marked as feature-complete in the latest release

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Nvidia stock set for record wipeout on DeepSeek fears — as CEO Jensen Huang’s net worth tanks 2025-01-27 at 21:34 By Thomas Barrabi US chip giant Nvidia and its CEO Jensen Huang are set for a record wipeout on Monday after Chinese startup DeepSeek upended the tech sector with its advanced new artificial intelligence model.

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South Carolina’s abandoned nuclear reactors positioned to fuel the AI datacenter boom 2025-01-27 at 20:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo VC Summer units 2 and 3, abandoned in 2017, are looking for a buyer; owners say tech industry needs are a perfect fit Abandoned in 2017, a pair of incomplete South Carolina nuclear reactors may get a

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What is DeepSeek? Why China’s latest AI model is spooking Wall Street and Silicon Valley 2025-01-27 at 20:05 By Thomas Barrabi Wall Street and Silicon Valley were in a tailspin on Monday due to the stunning rise of DeepSeek – a Chinese artificial intelligence startup that claims to have developed an advanced model at a

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Microsoft builds open source document database on PostgreSQL, suggests FerretDB as front end 2025-01-27 at 20:05 By Lindsay Clark We’re not in Kansas anymore Microsoft has launched a document database platform constructed on a relational PostgreSQL back end.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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DeepSeek hit by outages as users flock to Chinese AI startup 2025-01-27 at 19:18 By Reuters The outages on Monday were the company’s longest in around 90 days and coincides with its sky-rocketing popularity. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source React to

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DeepSeek suspends new registrations amid cyberattack 2025-01-27 at 19:18 By Thomas Claburn Chinese AI startup grapples with consequences of sudden popularity China’s DeepSeek, which shook up US AI companies with the debut of its R1 model family, has limited new signups due to ongoing cyberattack.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Google takes action after coder reports ‘most sophisticated attack I’ve ever seen’ 2025-01-27 at 19:04 By Connor Jones Latest trope is tricky enough to fool even the technical crowd… almost Google says it’s now hardening defenses against a sophisticated account takeover scam documented by a programmer last week.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Why 2025 Is Going to Rock 2025-01-27 at 18:49 By Jason Rolleston All signs point to a legendary year ahead. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source React to this headline:

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Why 2025 Is Going to Rock 2025-01-27 at 18:49 By Jason Rolleston All signs point to a legendary year ahead. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source React to this headline:

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Citrix slated to axe its Technology Professional program 2025-01-27 at 18:37 By Richard Speed Advocates also cut as company focuses on ‘priorities of our key customers’ Citrix is winding up its Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) program, a move described as “a short-sighted decision that reflects a lack of vision for the future.”… This article is

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JD Vance says big tech firms still ‘very much on notice’ for censoring conservatives: ‘Face the consequences’ 2025-01-27 at 18:16 By Ariel Zilber Vance told CBS’s “Face the Nation that the Trump administration is prepared to act if tech giants continue practices conservatives perceive as censorship. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News

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Mobile phishing campaign impersonates USPS, steals credentials 2025-01-27 at 18:03 By Security leaders discuss a new mobile phishing campaign that impersonates the USPS.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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