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Chrome 150 fixes nearly 400 security flaws, including 15 critical ones

PCWorld

Google discovered 358 flaws internally while external researchers contributed additional findings, earning $90,000 in security bounties for their efforts. Users should manually update Chrome through'Help About Google Chrome' to ensure protection against these vulnerabilities if automatic updates haven't occurred. Chrome just released version 150.0.7871.46/47


Anthropic Added a New Security Measure to Get Back Into the Trump Administration's Good Graces

WIRED

Anthropic Added a New Security Measure to Get Back Into the Trump Administration's Good Graces The government has removed restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models--but there were strings attached. The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI model after the company agreed to extend an existing guardrail to prevent users from trying to access certain restricted capabilities, according to two people familiar with the matter. The safeguard means any users trying to unlock those capabilities will be notified that their request is blocked and will have their query processed by the less-advanced Opus 4.8 AI model, the people say. Before Anthropic cut off access to Fable 5, user requests related to sensitive cybersecurity and biology capabilities were supposed to be processed by Opus 4.8. The new safeguard, the people say, will extend this guardrail to requests related to a specific behavior identified in a paper by Amazon .


America's Captain Grandpa Has Heard All the Old Jokes

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The Myth of the National Team

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Tapo's smart light switches are 9 a piece now -- and the deal ends tonight

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Tapo's smart light switches are $9 a piece now -- and the deal ends tonight This 4-pack of Tapo S500 Smart Light Switches is $35.99 today only. It ain't the lowest price it's ever been, but that's to be expected--smart light switches have embedded flash memory, which means they're affected by the global memory shortage going on right now. Unlike smart light bulbs, which need to be replaced every few years, smart light switches last much longer and are more versatile. You can control multiple outlets with a single switch, and for anything that uses light bulbs, you can keep using regular (cheaper) LEDs.


Trump to Celebrate the 'Great American Comeback' at Republican Midterm Convention

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Samsung's 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor is 149 -- still 40% off after Prime Day

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Samsung's 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor is $149 -- still 40% off after Prime Day Samsung's Odyssey G51F is still at its lowest ever price of $149.99, The special Prime Day price we saw for Samsung's Odyssey G51F gaming monitor last week? It's still going, which means you can grab this 27-inch 1440p display for just $149.99, a good 40% off its $250 MSRP. If you're still on 1080p, this is an excellent time to upgrade.


This MSI 4K OLED gaming monitor is down to just 600

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. The crazy OLED deals of Prime Day are mostly gone, but at least one Best Buy sale is definitely worth checking out. Amazon's Prime Day had a bunch of great OLED deals, but some of them weren't on Amazon and some of them are sticking around. Take this MSI 4K, 32-inch OLED, for example. Best Buy is selling it for $599.99, a fantastic deal.


The sun's violent death could look like this

Popular Science

The sun's violent death could look like this A white dwarf and an unusual exoplanet hint that'stellar death is not the end.' More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy . The sun still has a long life ahead of it, say five billion years or so.


Scientists develop new method to generate protein datasets for training AI

AIHub

Protein engineering is a field primed for artificial intelligence research. Each protein is made up of amino acids; to optimize a protein function, researchers modify proteins by switching out one of 20 different amino acids for another. For a protein that is just 50 amino acids in length, this leads to approximately 1.13 10 potential combinations to test. This number of potential combinations, impossible to test in the lab, makes protein engineering an ideal challenge for AI. Modeling which of these combinations will give the best results is a perfect problem for the technology's massive computing power.