The US Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) has called on president Donald Trump’s White House to slash red tape around cyber security regulations – potentially undoing some of the work done during previous president Joe Biden’s administration – saying the federal government must also do more to coordinate consistent cyber security policy and work hand…
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OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has released two large language models (LLMs) under the Apache 2.0 open source licence. The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b are open-weight language models, which OpenAI claimed deliver strong real-world performance at low cost. According to OpenAI, the new models outperform similarly sized open models on reasoning tasks and are optimised…
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José Adorno for BGR WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platforms in the world. While Americans with iPhones usually prefer iMessage over third-party solutions — and the appeal is understandable as Apple is adds some features in iOS 26 to compete with these apps – Meta is making the perfect tool to have more people to try…
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Senator Ron Wyden has written to the US director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard urging her to provide Congress and the American public with a “frank assessment” of the security risks posed by UK surveillance to the US. The letter, which follows disclosures that the Home Office has issued a secret notice to Apple to…
Europe’s baulked attempt to curb Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) training will persevere and culminate at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), said the data protection commissioner who is leading the challenge. Within days of European Union (EU) privacy commissioners giving Meta licence to train its popular open source Llama large language model (LLM) on public posts…
Proton Proton has made quite a name for itself over the past several years, putting a privacy-first focus on all of its applications, including Proton Mail, Proton VPN, and more. In the past year, the company also launched its first foray into the AI market with Scribe, an AI writing assistant that is embedded directly…
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The government has unveiled a $1m fellowship grant, backed by Meta and the Alan Turing Institute, to build technology for public services. The 12-month secondment in government will see fellows use open source artificial intelligence (AI) models such as Meta’s Llama 3.5 to help create new tools to deliver Labour’s Plan for Change. “Open source…
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Over the past few years, Apple has been involved in a contentious back-and-forth battle with the EU over how it operates its App Store. The crux of the issue is whether or not Apple is properly adhering to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a broad set of regulations designed to make the digital marketplace more…
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Four Silicon Valley executives have been recruited into a specialist tech-focused unit of the US Army Reserves in a bid to “bridge the commercial-military tech gap” and make the armed forces “more lethal”. According to an official US Army press release, the tech executives have been instantly appointed to senior officer ranks in Detachment 201:…
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Alongside rumors about a more affordable MacBook, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is sharing more details about Apple’s upcoming smart glasses. This wearable has been rumored for a few years now, and it seems the company is aiming to release it in 2027.Since true AR glasses have long been a focus for Apple and Tim Cook, Kuo’s…
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