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Met Office finds most of us still won’t trust an AI weather forecast
Public confidence in AI weather forecasts is far lower than for numerical and physics-based methods Just 11% said they were “very confident” in machine learning weather prediction, compared with 30% for tried-and-trusted methods The Met Office has been using machine learning techniques in weather forecasting for some years A survey…
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Samsung thinks Claude Code can help it boost chip design — but admits the AI still makes some worryingly big mistakes
Samsung System LSI division uses Anthropic’s Claude Code to reportedly slice working processes However the tool also apparently downgraded an error message instead of fixing it, rolling back unrelated finished work, and tried to edit code it was not authorized to touch Samsung’s engineers currently review everything the tool produces…
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Russian tech giant VK is suing Apple for blocking its apps — and wants $696,000 a day in compensation
VK wants Apple to restore its apps or face millions in daily fines The Russian company is demanding 58 million rubles ($696,000) every day Apple removed several major VK apps following European Union sanctions Russian firm VK has filed a lawsuit against Apple in a Moscow arbitration court, seeking restoration…
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‘Unlicensed, unrestricted AI training could destroy the ecosystem for books’ — quote of the day by the Authors Guild on the sourcing of training data
To achieve any level of competency, large language models (LLMs) need ample data for sufficient training. AI companies have looked to various sources to mine this information, including content publicly available on the internet, synthetic data generated from other AI models, and printed literature. “Unlicensed, unrestricted AI training could destroy…
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This company wants to stop underwater drones and even submarines with a whole new form of sonar technology
Ultra Maritime pairs its Sea Spear passive sonar array with the AN/SSQ-125B active sonobuoy at the US Navy’s Lanternfish 2026 exercise in a bid to detect underwater drones While neither sonar type is new, the distributed architecture that links both to Anduril’s Seabed Sentry and the Navy’s command systems generates…
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Sandisk’s huge new SSDs are set up specifically for NAS devices, with the largest offering a frankly ridiculous 7.68TB
Sandisk’s new NAS SSD lineup reaches a massive 7.68 TB capacity The flagship NAS 800 carries an unusually high 14 PBW endurance rating Sandisk offers SATA and PCIe 5.0 options for NAS systems Sandisk has introduced two SSD families designed specifically for network-attached storage systems, with capacities reaching 7.68TB. The…
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