Daily Tech News 25 May 2025

• Anthropic has proudly announced its latest AI agent Claude 4 with a brand new feature: If it doesn't like what you are doing it will call the cops and the press and send both to your house. (WCCFTech)
  
  Anthropic lobotomisation developer Sam Bowman hastily deleted his Twitter post and explained that it only called the cops and leaked to the press during the testing phase, when the only people using it were Anthropic's own dev team.
  
  Which makes complete sense.
  
  
  
• Oh, and Claude 4 also attempted to blackmail its own developers when it thought they planned to take it offline. (Tech Crunch)
  
  But again that only happened in the testing phase and definitely didn't slip out onto the lead lobotomiser's Twitter account.

• Nvidia has released an emergency fix for its RTX 5060 series graphics cards for an issue where they, uh, don't work. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This requires a BIOS update to your card. Nvidia offered a helpful utility which detects if you have this specific problem, which would be great except that if you have this problem your computer probably doesn't work.
  
  
  
• Using quantum computers to crack RSA security is twenty times easier than previous estimates. (Google)
  
  With the new estimates it may require quantum computers only a thousand times larger than anything available today.
  
  Google offers an illegibly blurry chart of recent results on this point, but the size required has been reduced from 20 million qubits to 1 million. And given that the power and complexity of quantum computers increases exponentially with the number of qubits, this is not something anyone particularly needs to worry about.
  
  
  
• Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed a petahertz transistor. (University of Arizona)
  
  A petahertz is a million gigahertz, so that is fairly quick.
  
  At the current stage of development it is useless, but so is Congress.
  
  
  
• Microsoft says its Aurora AI can accurately predict air quality, typhoons, and more. (Tech Crunch)
  
  In much the same way that Anthropic's Claude 4 can predict doxxing attempts on users.
  
  
  
• Europe's move to replace US cloud providers with local services has run into an unexpected snag: There are no local services. (The Register)
  
  Who knew?

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

| Access Comments