Big Ideas For 2025
Big ideas for 2025: Open-source intel goes mainstream
"The opportunity for industry is immense," argues Colin Robertson, Director of Roke Intelligence
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Spyware
Is WhatsApp still secure? Meta warns of zero-click spyware campaign
"Spyware companies must be held accountable for their unlawful actions."
GenAI
The dark side of Deepseek R-1? OpenAI o1 rival alleged to be biased, insecure, foulmouthed and unethical
Chinese AI model can be tricked into writing terrorist training manuals and offering advice on developing chemical or biological weapons, analysts claim
Crypto
"Crypto is dead": Y Combinator's 2025 startup requests spark fears for future of blockchain
"Anyone notice a trend here? "IT’S ALL F***ING OVER."
robots
Elon Musk shares "dangerous" Optimus plans, reveals "perverse" Telsa self-driving feature
Billionaire has plans to make Tesla robots' working life even more "hardcore" than his own 100-hour weeks.
Data Center
A few lines of Linux code could cut data centre emissions by 30%, academics claim
"It’s like rearranging the pipeline at a manufacturing plant so you don’t have people running around all the time.”
GenAI
AI taskers claim "break the model" testing gave them PTSD
Human GenAI trainers expected to "immerse themselves in deeply unsettling, often traumatic, scenarios".
GenAI
Regulatory roadblocks are crashing GenAI progress, data leaders warn
Bureaucratic meddling risks running generative AI development off the road.
Open Source
New open weight standard untethers the subconscious of AI
Framework enables the sharing of deep parameters which guide a model's behaviour and shape its responses.
Big Ideas For 2025
Big Ideas for 2025: Bridging the AI education gap
"This is a dangerous crossroads. The traditional ways of teaching machine learning through maths are not accessible."
security
How Cloudflare defeated a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack
"The systems worked as intended..."
Open Source
Opengrep vs Semgrep: Rival security firms close ranks to fork open source code analysis tool
Competitors launch "coordinated industry-wide stand against commercialisation and single vendor interest".