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Building software teams that manage mistakes rather than rejecting them
"We just need to be more careful about quality" … 💥 Famous last words.
You can't solve systemic problems by expecting developers to be perfect. Even AI hallucinates and needs human
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💥 OpenAI launches two ‘open’ AI reasoning models
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- OpenAI launched two open-weight AI reasoning models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, which are available on Hugging Face and can run on single GPUs or consumer laptops with 16GB of memory.
- While the models outperform competitors like DeepSeek on some benchmarks, they also hallucinate significantly more than previous OpenAI versions, with rates above 49 percent on the company’s PersonQA test.
- The company is releasing the models under a permissive Apache 2.0 license for commercial use but is not making the training data available, a key detail for open-weight projects.
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🛡️ Nvidia rejects US demand for AI chip backdoors
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- Nvidia's chief security officer publicly rejected demands for AI chip backdoors or kill switches, arguing these features would create dangerous vulnerabilities instead of providing any real security benefits.
- This pushback is aimed at a proposed US bill called the Chip Security Act, which would require tracking and could mandate remote kill switches on GPUs to control international sales.
- The statement also addresses Chinese allegations that backdoors already exist in H20 chips, as the company works to prevent being replaced by competitors like Huawei in the Chinese market.
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🌕 Nasa wants to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon
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- NASA's acting administrator issued a directive to fast-track a lunar nuclear reactor, calling for proposals on a 100-kilowatt system that must be prepared for launch by the end of 2029.
- The accelerated timeline is reportedly driven by a partnership between China and Russia, who plan to build their own nuclear-powered outpost near the moon’s south pole by the mid-2030s.
- Beyond supplying electricity, the nuclear reactor could establish what the directive calls a “keep-out zone,” a strategic method for claiming a lunar area without formal territorial ownership.
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❌ WhatsApp bans over 6.8 million scam accounts
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- WhatsApp has deleted over 6.8 million accounts allegedly linked to criminal “pig butchering” operations, which are often run by organized crime networks based in Southeast Asian countries.
- The company said it proactively detected and removed these profiles using its own investigations, taking them offline before scammers could start their fraudulent investment schemes with potential victims.
- This type of fraud involves building trusted relationships with targets online to manipulate them into transferring large sums of money, frequently through various cryptocurrency payment platforms.
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💻 Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 4.1
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- Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.1, a successor to its previous AI that shows improved abilities in agentic tasks, coding, and reasoning according to the company's official blog post.
- In agentic terminal coding, the 4.1 model achieved a 43.3% score on the Terminal-Bench benchmark, outperforming Opus 4, OpenAI's o3, and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro.
- Early customers like Windsurf and Japan’s Rakuten Group have already reported that the new system completes coding tasks more quickly and accurately than the previous version did.
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📉 Intel's next-gen manufacturing process is reportedly still struggling
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- Intel's future 18A manufacturing process is reportedly struggling with persistent low yields and high defect rates, casting doubt on its ability to successfully compete with rival chipmaker TSMC.
- Usable yields for the company’s upcoming Panther Lake chips on the 18A process were reportedly just five percent last year, a small fraction of the 50 percent needed for production.
- Despite Intel’s official statements that its launch schedule is on track, one source called its aggressive 18A timeline a 'hail mary' that could impact securing future 14A contracts.
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