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The cloud has been the main place for computation and data in the tech industry for a long time. Last week at HP Imagine 2026 in New York, HP presented a strong argument for moving more of that intelligence to the edge. They focused on AI workloads operating on devices and enterprise workstations. This change is part of a bigger change in business AI. Companies are starting to put AI directly into workflows and gadgets…
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MediaTek is no longer merely a seller of chips in bulk. The company made it clear at its recent Analyst Day in San Francisco that it wants to be a top-tier player in AI, mobile, and edge computing, and change how the industry sees its position. That was the main story of the day. MediaTek didn’t just turn up with a few new products and a boring business story. Instead, it acted like a business…
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A minor but telling failure in the behavior of large language models (LLMs) is bringing to light a problem that hasn’t been talked about much: how safety features can accidentally teach models to make outputs that look true but aren’t.Hey, In one version, a safety feature that was meant to cut down on hallucinations added clear tool execution markers to the model’s compressed memory to show which actions had been taken. But over time, the…
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Google has said that they are starting a new project to make HTTPS certificates safe from quantum computers. The application, named PLANTS — PKI, Logs, And Tree Signatures — is meant to fix performance and bandwidth problems that come up when quantum-resistant encryption gets bigger in TLS connections that need Certificate Transparency (CT). If the current digital certificates used by TLS connections were simply replaced with quantum-resistant cryptography certificates, it would make those connections much…
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According to one of the world’s major content delivery network providers, malicious internet traffic has gone up 245% since Israel and the US started attacking Iran on February 28.Akamai Technologies said that during that time, automated reconnaissance traffic went up by 65%, credential-harvesting attempts went up by 35%, infrastructure scanning for exposed services went up by 52%, botnet-discovery traffic went up by 70%, and denial-of-service reconnaissance went up by 38%. Sandeep Rath, Nitin Singla, Ankita…