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s3: The new RAG framework that trains search agents with minimal data
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have introduced s3, an open-source framework designed to build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems more efficiently than current methods.  s3 can benefit developers creating real-world... Read more
Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for May 29
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s NYT Mini Crossword has a bit of a foreign language focus. But with a little thinking, you... Read more
Nancy Mace’s Former Staff Claim She Had Them Create Burner Accounts to Promote Her
Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican congresswoman, often tells her staff that she’s a self-taught coder—just one aspect of how Mace presents her tech expertise, as befits her role in shaping the GOP’s policies on technology and work as chair of the House subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and... Read more
Agentic AI defeated DanaBot, exposing key lessons for SOC teams
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The recent takedown of DanaBot, a Russian malware platform responsible for infecting over 300,000 systems and causing more than $50 million in damage, highlights how agentic AI is redefining cybersecurity... Read more
Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors
GreyNoise said it detected the campaign in mid-March and held off reporting on it until after the company notified unnamed government agencies. That detail further suggests that the threat actor may have some connection to a nation-state. The company researchers went on to say that the activity they observed... Read more
Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for May 29 #248
Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Connections: Sports Edition might be tough today. You’ll see a bunch of single and double letters. See if... Read more
Why Anthropic’s New AI Model Sometimes Tries to ‘Snitch’
The hypothetical scenarios the researchers presented Opus 4 with that elicited the whistleblowing behavior involved many human lives at stake and absolutely unambiguous wrongdoing, Bowman says. A typical example would be Claude finding out that a chemical plant knowingly allowed a toxic leak to continue, causing severe illness for... Read more
Nvidia beats estimates for Q1 results as revenues rise 69% from a year ago
Nvidia, the AI and graphics chip company driving societal changes with AI, reported revenue for the first quarter ended April 27, 2025, was $44.1 billion, up 12% from the previous quarter and up 69% from a year ago. On April 9, 2025, the U.S. government told Nvidia that a... Read more
T-Mobile Says It’s Not Spying on You. What the New Screen Recording Tool Actually Does
Some T-Mobile customers during the past week have been surprised to discover a new — and enabled by default — feature in the T-Life app called “Screen recording tool.” In light of recent iffy recording tools such as Microsoft’s Recall AI feature in Windows, seeing a feature that records the contents... Read more
10 Best Juicers (2025): Centrifugal, Slow, Masticating
Most all-purpose juicers fall into one of two types. Centrifugal juicers or masticating slow juicers that are also known as “cold press.” A centrifugal juicer offers speed and a lot of power. In essence, it operates a bit like a blender with an added mesh screen to separate juice... Read more