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Fara-7B is our first agentic small language model for computer use. This experimental model includes robust safety measures ...

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The developers behind the Tor network have announced a major upcoming change. The free overlay network, which enables anonymous communication on the web, will soon adopt ...

A researcher from the University of Tokyo and a U.S.-based structural engineer developed a new computational form-finding ...

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have achieved a breakthrough in quantum noise characterization in ...

Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...

Acclaimed as a mathematical genius, Ada Lovelace is said to have understood the potential of the first computer blueprints better than their inventor. A serendipitous friendship with the mathematician ...

The world is not a Matrix-style simulation and humans are not just pawns being controlled by a supercomputer, boffins have confirmed. Russian philosopher Igor Shnurenko said human nature is based on a ...

These days, GPUs have legitimately become a luxury good. With graphics cards like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 costing upwards of $1,999, you can expect to pay top dollar for top performance. Prices ...

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When writing a program with a loop, the programmer needs to make sure it stops at the right time or it could run forever! The two main methods to end a loop are using a counter or a rogue value. #the ...