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2 weeks ago | betanews.com | Kayla Matthews

Mark Zuckerberg is taking control of Meta’s artificial intelligence future. After falling short with recent AI models, he’s now leading a bold plan to build something much bigger—superintelligence—the kind of AI that can outperform humans at thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving. Thus, he’s forming a new research lab and backing it with a massive investment in Scale AI. This new AI unit is called the superintelligence group inside Meta. It’s not a vague concept or distant dream.

2 weeks ago | betanews.com | Ian Barker

As enterprises roll out more AI applications, GPUs are in high demand to provide the computing power required to meet the demands of certain AI workloads. But GPUs aren't the only game in town, there's rising interest in AI accelerators as customers seek choice and flexibility when it comes to their businesses. Last month, Intel and IBM announced a collaboration the availability of Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators on IBM Cloud.

2 weeks ago | betanews.com | Ian Barker

Cybersecurity teams are often overwhelmed by an endless backlog of vulnerabilities, but not all of them are high risk. Traditional exposure management emphasizes identifying and prioritizing risks, but without validation, teams often spend time remediating issues that don't even put critical assets at risk. Dr. Süleyman Özarslan, co-founder of Picus Security and VP of Picus Labs, believes that exposure validation represents the missing piece in risk management.

2 weeks ago | betanews.com | Brian Fagioli

Linux Mint 22.2 is shaping up to be a pretty exciting release, especially for those who use fingerprint readers. You see, the developers are adding a brand-new app called Fingwit, and while the name is quirky, the tool itself is actually very practical. Fingwit is all about fingerprint authentication. Once it detects a fingerprint reader on your system, it lets you record your prints and use them to log in, unlock the screen, run sudo commands, and authenticate with admin apps like pkexec.

3 weeks ago | betanews.com | Martin Brinkmann

Six-hundred-fifty in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. Microsoft announced big changes coming to Windows 11 for users in the European Union and European Economic Area. Among them the option to remove Microsoft Store without losing access to app updates, less Edge-nagging, more control over web search in Windows and more.