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Just two weeks after launching Gemini 4 Argon, Google has announced a better-performing version of the model that it will sell for the same price, at least temporarily. More here:

A scientist working on data gathered by the Rubin Observatory has found a strong candidate for our solar system’s sixth known dwarf planet. More here:

Tape is not dead PART XXIV. More here:

Would you look at that? AI-powered searches earn Google less money than serving ads with its old-school search engine. The market is not happy. More here:

Man spends 35 years collecting corporatespeak, turns it into an app

China's spaceplane bears striking resemblance to America's X-37B - probably just a coincidence.

Please state the nature of the medical emergency. Google and NASA are developing a robot medic for deep-space missions. More here:

Anthropic engineer declares the coding interview dead. Figuring out what should replace it is another challenge. More here:

Oracle wraps Cybersecurity Awareness Month with quadruple trouble: Attackers are probing a critical EBS flaw, while researchers say a PeopleSoft zero-day exploited by ShinyHunters actually involves 3 vulns. More here:

Burning AI tokens doesn't mean you're getting work done. Amazon's message to devs: Stop tokenmaxxing, build useful software, and know when AI isn't worth the bother. More here:

Long arm of the law catches up with Ukrainian ransomware crook Artem Stryzhak, who gets 70 months jail time for his crimes

How Google botched the jump from AngularJS to Angular 2 offers timely lessons in how not to update a software package

UK domain registrar 123 Reg (no relation, OK?!) says it was the victim of an “AI-driven cyberattack” that exposed customer data. More here:

While the Cisco AI researchers have not run Quarry against data describing the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, they suggest that under some conditions, the AI agents' steps might have potentially produced a Quarry rule humans could act on. More here:

Starlink, schmarlink: El Reg takes a tour of a satellite nursery for customers thinking about de-risking dependence More here:

if "Dilbert and George Costanza had a love child" app unleashes value of 25 years of corporate torture in unprecented paradigm ... More here:

Newly formed cloud provider Quake AI expects a hefty proportion of its users will be agents rather than humans. Which is informing some of its choices. More here:

Korean memory-maker SK Hynix says memory shortages are here to stay, and more buyers for infra ar entering the market. More here:

Double edged sword: Infosys CEO and MD Salil Parekh has pointed to AI as one of the reasons the cost of services is falling. More here:

Oracle says its deal to add Google TPUs to OCI will make it the first hyperscale cloud platform outside Google's own cloud services to offer the chips. More here: