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    Popular genetics tests can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality, according to a recent study. A team of geneticists recently found no connection between simple genetic variants and behavioral traits in more than 3,200 dogs, even though previous studies suggested that hundreds of genes might predict aspects of a dog’s behavior and personality. That’s

    NewsDecember 7, 2025
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    CHANCAY, Peru—The elevator doors leading to the fifth-floor control center open like stage curtains onto a theater-sized screen. This “Operations Productivity Dashboard” instantaneously displays a battery of data: vehicle locations, shipping times, entry times, loading data, unloading data, efficiency statistics. Most striking, though, are the bold lines arcing over the dashboard’s deep-blue Pacific—digital streaks illustrating

    NewsDecember 6, 2025
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    On the surface, generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude seem like harmless tools invented to make life easier for everyone. After all, they’re capable of generating basic content on the fly, make amazing brainstorming partners, and they can even write code. But AI tools are inherently vulnerable and can be manipulated for illegitimate purposes

    NewsDecember 6, 2025
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    Lloyds Bank is betting on a future where purchasing a home might be as easy as pushing a button – thanks to an unexpected mashup of blockchain and artificial intelligence. The bank’s chief executive, Charlie Nunn, told delegates at the Global Banking Summit that a combination of “tokenised deposits” and AI could revolutionise mortgages, conveyancing, payments

    NewsDecember 6, 2025
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    AI agents embedded in CI/CD pipelines can be tricked into executing high-privilege commands hidden in crafted GitHub issues or pull request texts. Researchers at Aikido Security have traced the problem back to workflows that pair GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD with AI tools such as Gemini CLI, Claude Code Actions, OpenAI Codex Actions or GitHub

    NewsDecember 6, 2025
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    Google this week launched Workspace Studio, promising to let a wide range of employees build and use their own AI agents.  Workspace Studio — it was called Workspace Flows during preview earlier this year — is a no-code application that lets users create and customize agents with natural language descriptions and muti-step actions.  “Studio puts the

    NewsDecember 6, 2025
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    OpenAI’s research team has trained its GPT-5 large language model to “confess” when it doesn’t follow instructions, providing a second output after its main answer that reports when the model didn’t do as it was told, cut corners, hallucinated, or was uncertain of its answer. “If we can surface when that happens, we can better

    NewsDecember 6, 2025
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    The latest Apple leadership changes set the stage for a new approach from the company on a range of issues, including international relations, the environment, and beyond. If great artists steal, great leaders reflect the spirit of their age.  Apple’s current general counsel, Kate Adams, will leave late next year, following a transition to a new general

    NewsDecember 6, 2025
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    Microsoft 365 customers will pay more for subscriptions next year, with price hikes across most subscription plans set to begin July 1. The changes will affect customers with Business, E3/E3, Frontline, and Government subscriptions.  Microsoft said in a blog post Thursday that the increases reflect new features being added to several plans. This includes expanded Copilot

    NewsDecember 6, 2025
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    Music giant Warner Music Group announced last week that it had reached a “groundbreaking partnership agreement” with Suno, the AI startup at the forefront of AI-generated music it had sued for copyright infringement. After settling that fight, Warner Music signed new licensing models that allow Suno users to continue creating “music.” Similar agreements have previously

    NewsDecember 6, 2025
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