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Alienware 34 AW3425DW | PC Gamer

Alienware 34 AW3425DW | PC Gamer

Today’s best Alienware 34 240Hz QD-OLED Gaming Monitor – AW3425DW deals Up front disclosure: I’m a sucker for 34-inch ultrawide monitors, I reckon they’re still the sweetspot for sensible-money gaming. With that in mind, you’d think Alienware‘s newly updated 34-inch ultrawide OLED monitor, the Alienware 34 AW3425DW, is odds on for a very high score….

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Asus ROG Strix XG27UCG | PC Gamer

Asus ROG Strix XG27UCG | PC Gamer

Are the new generation of dual-mode monitors capable of both native 4K and a pixel-doubled 1080p alternative resolution actually worth it? It’s certainly an intriguing idea. What with the ability to run much higher refresh rates in 1080p mode plus that crispy 4K native resolution, you’re getting the best of both worlds. If that’s the…

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Anthropic says its Claude AI will resort to blackmail in ‘84% of rollouts’ while an independent AI safety researcher also notes it ‘engages in strategic deception more than any other frontier model that we have previously studied’

Anthropic says its Claude AI will resort to blackmail in ‘84% of rollouts’ while an independent AI safety researcher also notes it ‘engages in strategic deception more than any other frontier model that we have previously studied’

Rogue chatbots resorting to blackmail and pondering consciousness? It has to be clickbait, right? Actually, no. One of the leading organisations in LLMs or large language models, Anthropic, has published a safety report covering its latest model, Claude Opus 4, and one of the more eye-popping subsections is titled, “Opportunistic blackmail” and explains how the…

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Microsoft says it wants to completely ditch passwords as it makes passwordless login the default for all new accounts

Microsoft says it wants to completely ditch passwords as it makes passwordless login the default for all new accounts

“Ten years ago, Microsoft had a bold idea. Instead of signing in using clumsy and insecure passwords, what if you could simply smile?” Never mind that certain limitations of Microsoft’s cloud services (I’m looking at you, file sharing and collaboration) might make you weep rather than beam, because gurning logins are apparently Microsoft’s aim for…

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