Darksiders 4 was not on my 2025 bingo card

Darksiders 4 is officially coming. During the THQ Nordic Digital Showcase on Friday, we got a glimpse at the next game in the hack and slash action-adventure franchise, alongside trailers for roughly a dozen other games that are in the works, including and . It’s been a while since we’ve seen a new mainline Darksiders […]

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Forcing LLMs to be evil during training can make them nicer in the long run

For this study, Lindsey and his colleagues worked to lay down some of that groundwork. Previous research has shown that various dimensions of LLMs’ behavior—from whether they are talking about weddings to persistent traits such as sycophancy—are associated with specific patterns of activity in the simulated neurons that constitute LLMs. Those patterns can be written […]

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Akira Ransomware Exploits SonicWall VPNs in Likely Zero-Day Attack on Fully-Patched Devices

Aug 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Zero Day SonicWall SSL VPN devices have become the target of Akira ransomware attacks as part of a newfound surge in activity observed in late July 2025. “In the intrusions reviewed, multiple pre-ransomware intrusions were observed within a short period of time, each involving VPN access through SonicWall SSL VPNs,” […]

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Creating Materialized View with FAST REFRESH

Part 1 – Implementation: Creating Materialized View with FAST REFRESH To enable FAST REFRESH in a materialized view, Oracle requires the existence of a Materialized View Log (MV log) on the base table. This log records the row-level changes (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) that occur after the materialized view is created. First, create the MV log using the […]

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A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes

Even if you have spent some time reading about machine learning, chances are that you have never heard of Gaussian processes. And if you have, rehearsing the basics is always a good way to refresh your memory. With this blog post we want to give an introduction to Gaussian processes and make the mathematical intuition […]

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Microsoft follows Nvidia’s lead, surpasses $4 trillion market capitalization on soaring demand for cloud services, multi-front AI endeavors

Microsoft on Thursday reached a $4 trillion market valuation, becoming the second company in history to do so, following Nvidia hitting the same milestone earlier in July. The achievement comes amid strong earnings for the fiscal 2025, soaring demand for cloud services, the company’s aggressive push into artificial intelligence, and the upcoming end of Windows […]

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Advancing the industry, part two.

I’m turning forty in a few weeks, and there’s a listicle archetype along the lines of “Things I’ve learned in the first half of my career as I turn forty and have now worked roughly twenty years in the technology industry.” How do you write that and make it good? Don’t ask me. I don’t […]

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