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OpenAI’s GPT-5 looks less like AI evolution and more like cost cutting 2025-08-13 at 21:53 By Tobias Mann Gotta pay for all those GPUs somehow Comment  For all the superlative-laden claims, OpenAI’s new top model appears to be less of an advancement and more of a way to save compute costs — something that hasn’t […]

Instagram ‘Map’ feature poses ‘significant’ safety and privacy risks that could endanger kids, state AGs warn 2025-08-13 at 21:43 By Thomas Barrabi Instagram’s controversial new “Map” feature carries “significant public safety and data privacy concerns” that could endanger kids, a bipartisan group of state attorneys general warned in a letter on Wednesday. This article is

Toothpaste made out of hair could be on shelves in two years — scientists say it’s the secret to stopping tooth decay 2025-08-13 at 21:43 By Tracy Swartz Tooth decay affects nearly 90% of adults 20 to 64 years old and about 46% of children. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and

Price predictions 8/13: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, LINK, HYPE, XLM 2025-08-13 at 21:29 By Cointelegraph by Rakesh Upadhyay Bitcoin and Ether look poised to hit new highs soon. Which altcoins could follow? This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund ups indirect Bitcoin exposure in 2025 2025-08-13 at 21:29 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill The European country’s sovereign wealth fund does not hold BTC directly but has indirect exposure through a portfolio of crypto companies. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Desktops and printers in coffee shops? Starbucks Korea tells customers to 그만 해 2025-08-13 at 21:29 By Brandon Vigliarolo Early 2000s joke now serious problem for coffee shops in the Land of the Morning Calm Take a look at the internet of decades past, and you’ll find plenty of jokes about bringing a desktop computer

US weather agency dangles $396M to run ops for its next space-watching fleet 2025-08-13 at 21:29 By Brandon Vigliarolo Hurricane data, schmurricane data: Have you heard about that Sun burp? The more our Earth-bound society learns to rely on electronics, the greater the risk that weather from the stars shatters our reality. That’s why US

Latest Windows patches cause false alarm error to appear in event viewer 2025-08-13 at 20:18 By Richard Speed Redmond let dev code loose in production Windows, leading to the bug Microsoft is having difficulty keeping development code out of the Windows event log after another message that users are advised to ignore turned up in

New PS1Bot Malware Campaign Uses Malvertising to Deploy Multi-Stage In-Memory Attacks 2025-08-13 at 20:18 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malvertising campaign that’s designed to infect victims with a multi-stage malware framework called PS1Bot. “PS1Bot features a modular design, with several modules delivered used to perform a variety of malicious activities on infected systems,

No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritize El Reg, others in search results 2025-08-13 at 19:47 By Avram Piltch How to pick the news sources you want to see more (and less) hands on  Even if you have your favorite sites bookmarked or type their URLs in through muscle memory, you probably still

GPT-5 is going so well for OpenAI that there’s now a ‘show additional models’ switch 2025-08-13 at 19:33 By Richard Speed Users want their customizations and their old models back There has been more furious backpedalling from OpenAI following the company’s ill-judged launch of GPT-5 and the removal of previous model selection.… This article is

Bitcoin bulls charge at all-time highs as trader says $126K ‘pivotal’ 2025-08-13 at 19:06 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin already has new key price levels beyond current all-time highs as traders wait for Ether price discovery to hit. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

XRP futures OI jumps 20% as price charts target $6 in August 2025-08-13 at 19:06 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Multiple technical setups suggest a potential XRP price rally toward $6 and above amid increasing futures open interest. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Crooks can’t let go: Active attacks target Office vuln patched 8 years ago 2025-08-13 at 19:06 By Paul Kunert CVE-2017-11882 in discontinued Equation Editor still attracting keylogger campaigns despite software being killed off in 2018 Very few people are immune to the siren song of nostalgia, a yearning for a “better time” when this was

Here’s why delivery drones may soon become the new standard in the US 2025-08-13 at 18:32 By Associated Press The FAA proposed a new rule last week that would make it easier for companies to fly drones outside of an operator’s line of sight and therefore over longer distances. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology

CoreWeave CFO: $25BN raised in debt and equity in 18 months 2025-08-13 at 18:20 By Dan Robinson Reliant on two mega customers? Who says GPU-for-rent kingpin is a not a sustainable biz model? Rent-a-GPU biz CoreWeave is still racking up eyewatering debts amid mounting net losses as it continues to burn cash on expanding datacenter

Zoom and Xerox Release Critical Security Updates Fixing Privilege Escalation and RCE Flaws 2025-08-13 at 17:48 By Zoom and Xerox have addressed critical security flaws in Zoom Clients for Windows and FreeFlow Core that could allow privilege escalation and remote code execution.  The vulnerability impacting Zoom Clients for Windows, tracked as CVE-2025-49457 (CVSS score: 9.6),

Microsoft pushes Pull print, so you don’t have to dash to the printer to grab the ‘Fire everyone’ memo 2025-08-13 at 17:24 By Richard Speed Hit the button and then go on your own voyage of printer discovery Microsoft has made the “Pull Print” feature of Universal Print generally available, which means confidential print jobs