February 3, 2025
AR/VR

Anthropic claims new AI security method blocks 95% of jailbreaks, invites red teamers to try

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Two years after ChatGPT hit the scene, there are numerous large language models (LLMs), and nearly all remain ripe for jailbreaks — specific prompts and other workarounds that trick them into producing harmful content.  Model developers have yet to come up with an effective defense — and, truthfully, they may never be able to deflect such

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Taryn Plumb February 3, 2025
Hardware

‘GTA is unlike any other game,’ animator says Rockstar is likely fixing tons of bugs in GTA 6

TL;DR: Rockstar Games is likely in the bug-squashing phase for Grand Theft Auto 6, aiming for a 2025 release. Former Rockstar animator Mike York suggests the game is playable, with extensive testing underway due to its complex, unpredictable open-world nature, similar to GTA V’s development process. If Rockstar Games is still planning on releasing Grand Theft Auto 6 in 2025, then the team is probably squashing as many bugs as possible right now–a massive undertaking

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Derek Strickland February 3, 2025

Stripe brings aboard new head of ‘startup and VC partnerships’ | TechCrunch

Asya Bradley, a former fintech founder and investor, has joined payments giant Stripe as its new head of Startup & Venture Capital Partnerships. Bradley announced the news on February 2 in a post on LinkedIn, though her bio shows that she joined Stripe back in November. Neither Stripe nor Bradley were immediately available for comment.  Ending in February 2019, Bradley spent three years as the chief revenue officer of Synapse, a fintech company that went

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Mary Ann Azevedo February 3, 2025
Hardware

Battlefield 6’s next-gen destruction effects will be first things tested in Battlefield Labs

TL;DR: EA is developing the next Battlefield game with a focus on player feedback, introducing Battlefield Labs for community-driven playtesting. This program allows selected players to test new features, including improved destruction physics, weapons, and maps. EA is developing the next Battlefield game specifically around direct player feedback, and the new-and-improved destruction physics will be among the first things that players can test out. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Today, EA announced Battlefield Labs, a

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Derek Strickland February 3, 2025
Hardware

Apple posts Q1 2025 results: crazy $124.3 billion in revenue, iPhones continue to dominate

TL;DR: Apple’s Q1 2025 financial results showed record revenue of $124.3 billion, with $36.3 billion in profits, driven largely by iPhone sales, which accounted for over 50% of earnings. The iPad division also saw growth. CEO Tim Cook highlighted the success of their product lineup and Apple Intelligence advancements. Apple posted its best financial quarter yet with Q1 2025 results blowing the industry out of the water, wth $124.3 billion in revenue, and over half

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Anthony Garreffa February 3, 2025

The AI Arms Race in Cybersecurity: Trust Nothing, Verify Everything | HackerNoon

The battle between cybercriminals and cybersecurity professionals is increasing daily. A cybersecurity report states that cybercrime could cost as much as $10.5 trillion yearly by 2025. Artificial intelligence has become the weapon in this arms race. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Microsoft with over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity, I have seen the evolution of cyber attacks. I have also witnessed the importance of AI in security coupled with a Master’s

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Tiru Chillapalli February 3, 2025

Are Audiobooks A Waste of Time and Money? | HackerNoon

While I love “normal books,” audiobooks are a tool in the Lifehacker’s war chest for high-leverage learning and do offer some special benefits. Notably, audiobooks help improve listening comprehension. By listening to audiobooks, one can improve their comprehension by hearing the language. Audio learning helps stimulate the imagination, increase reading fluency, and provide a model of proper pronunciation, sentence structure, and proper grammar. By hearing the language, the listeners build their vocabularies. Listening to books

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Jonathan Roseland February 3, 2025
Robotics

MassRobotics kicks off fifth year of Jumpstart Fellowship Program – The Robot Report

MassRobotics included learning to design CAD models in SolidWorks as part of its Jumpstart Fellowship curriculum. | Source: MassRobotics MassRobotics is entering the fifth year of its Jumpstart Fellowship program, which aims to encourage and empower diverse high school girls to pursue a career in robotics and promote diversity in the robotics workforce. This is also the second year the program includes sessions in Lowell, Mass.  The organization said the program has many components. These

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The Robot Report Staff February 3, 2025
Software

How to Build a Tiny Language Model (TLM) in Ruby: A Step-by-Step Guide | HackerNoon

In this article, we will walk through how to create a very simple language model using Ruby. While true Large Language Models (LLMs) require enormous amounts of data and computational resources, we can create a toy model that demonstrates many of the core concepts behind language modeling. In our example, we will build a basic Markov Chain model that “learns” from input text and then generates new text based on the patterns it observed. Note:

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Davide Santangelo February 3, 2025

Türkiye’s Laton Ventures raises $50M to invest in global game and app startups

Laton Ventures, a gaming and apps focused venture capital firm founded by Görkem Türk, has closed its first fund with $50 million. The Istanbul venture capital fund is the largest gaming and apps-focused fund in Türkiye, which has become one of the prominent global hubs for the gaming industry, said Türk in a statement. Laton Ventures will globally invest in pre-seed and seed stage gaming startups, while also backing non-gaming app companies. Back in April,

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Dean Takahashi February 3, 2025

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