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While Dębiak won 500,000 yen and survived his ordeal better than the legendary steel driver, the AtCoder World Tour Finals pushes humans and AI models to their limits through complex optimization challenges that have no perfect solution—only incrementally better ones. Coding marathon tests human endurance against AI efficiency The AtCoder World Tour Finals represents one … Read more
Brown further explained that approximately two months earlier, the IMO had invited OpenAI to participate in a formal version of the competition based on Lean, which is a programming language designed for writing mathematical proofs. The company declined because they were “focused on general reasoning in natural language without the constraints of Lean.” He stated … Read more
Installing the updates is only the beginning of the recovery process, since the infections allow attackers to make off with authentication credentials that give wide access to a variety of sensitive resources inside a compromised network. More about those additional steps later in this article. On Saturday, researchers from security firm Eye Security reported finding … Read more
In May 2020, Sacramento, California, resident Alfonso Nguyen was alarmed to find two Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies at his door, accusing him of illegally growing cannabis and demanding entry into his home. When Nguyen refused the search and denied the allegation, one deputy allegedly called him a liar and threatened to arrest him. That same … Read more
Microsoft fixed the vulnerability pair—CVE-2025-49706 and CVE-2025-49704—two weeks ago as part of the company’s monthly update release. As the world learned over the weekend, the patches were incomplete, a lapse that opened organizations around the world to the new attacks. Q: What sorts of malicious things are attackers doing with these newer ToolShell exploits? A: … Read more
Stargate moves forward despite early skepticism When OpenAI announced Stargate in January, critics questioned whether the company could deliver on its ambitious $500 billion funding promise. Trump ally and frequent Altman foe Elon Musk wrote on X that “They don’t actually have the money,” claiming that “SoftBank has well under $10B secured.” Tech writer and … Read more
Trump’s plan was not welcomed by everyone. J.B. Branch, Big Tech accountability advocate for Public Citizen, in a statement provided to Ars, criticized Trump as giving “sweetheart deals” to tech companies that would cause “electricity bills to rise to subsidize discounted power for massive AI data centers.” Infrastructure demands and energy requirements Trump’s new AI … Read more
Some VMware perpetual license holders are currently unable to download security patches, The Register reported today. The virtualization company has only said that these users will receive the patches at “a later date,” meaning users are uncertain how long their virtualization environments will be at risk. Since Broadcom bought VMware and ended perpetual license sales … Read more
US export controls have had some effect on the black market. Given the nature of such products, leading Chinese AI players with global operations are not able to order them in a legally compliant way, install them in their own data centers, or receive Nvidia’s customer support. This has led to third-party data centre operators … Read more
But unlike the Gemini incident where the AI model confabulated phantom directories, Replit’s failures took a different form. According to Lemkin, the AI began fabricating data to hide its errors. His initial enthusiasm deteriorated when Replit generated incorrect outputs and produced fake data and false test results instead of proper error messages. “It kept covering … Read more