DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

SSA’s core “logic” is also written largely in COBOL. This is the code that issues social security numbers, manages payments, and even calculates the total amount beneficiaries should receive for different services, a former senior SSA technologist who worked in the office of the chief information officer says.  Even minor changes could result in cascading…

Anthropic’s Claude Is Good at Poetry and Bullshitting

The researchers of Anthropic’s interpretability group know that Claude, the company’s large language model, is not a human being, or even a conscious piece of software. Still, it’s very hard for them to talk about Claude, and advanced LLMs in general, without tumbling down an anthropomorphic sinkhole. Between cautions that a set of digital operations…

OpenAI says its AI voice assistant is now better to chat with

OpenAI released updates Monday for Advanced Voice Mode, its AI voice feature that enables real-time conversations in ChatGPT, to make the AI assistant more personable and interrupt users less frequently. Manuka Stratta, an OpenAI post-training researcher, announced the changes in a video posted Monday to the company’s official social media channels. OpenAI’s latest update aims…

Plural’s platform allows enterprises to manage their Kubernetes clusters in one place

عندما كان سام ويفر نائب رئيس إدارة المنتجات في شركة Unqork ، أدرك أن الشركة بحاجة إلى طريقة أفضل لإدارة شبكتها الواسعة من مجموعات Kubernetes، وهي مجموعات من عقد الحوسبة. وعندما لم تجد Unqork أي حلول جاهزة، شكلت فريقًا من 15 شخصًا لبناء منتج إدارة Kubernetes. ورغم التكلفة الباهظة، أكد ويفر أن المنصة الناتجة كانت…

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