Lindsay Clark

1 week ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

The UK's version of Darpa — a US government blue-sky research body — has invested £23.3 million (c $32 million) into nine teams working to transform "robotic dexterity."The Advanced Research and Invention Agency, or ARIA, said the research would help robots aid a growing ageing population and address intensified labor shortages.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

The UK’s data watchdog has reprimanded Greater Manchester Police (GMP) force for losing CCTV footage the cop shop was later requested to retain. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the UK’s third largest police force had failed in its obligation to keep the personal data safe after an individual was held in custody for 48 hours in February 2021. During the custody the CCTV system was in operation.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

Salesforce is promising every Slack user a "digital teammate" to help with tasks such as providing summaries of channels and taking notes from meetings. And responding to office banter on the user's behalf, The Register can only assume.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

A research organization claims that OpenAI machine learning model o3 might prevent itself from being shut down in some circumstances while completing an unrelated task. Palisade Research, which offers AI risk mitigation, has published details of an experiment involving the reflective generative pre-trained transformer model OpenAI designed to address questions which require some step-by-step reasoning, rather than the purely probabilistic approach taken by some large language models.

1 week ago | lxer.com | Lindsay Clark

With a combined market value of around $150 billion, Snowflake and Databricks have divergent visions on how to get customers' analytics and machine learning tools to their data, which is often spread across different systems. And now fledgling database DuckDB is throwing another fresh format into the pot, along with a new architecture and database extension.