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Researchers are raising alarms about a newly discovered denial-of-service technique targeting HTTP slash two, the protocol underpinning much of the modern web. Dubbed an HTTP slash two bomb, the attack can exhaust more than thirty gigabytes of RAM in seconds, crashing web servers before defenses can respond. Some vendors have already issued patches, but the window of exposure is a reminder of how quickly protocol-level vulnerabilities can scale.
Shifting to artificial intelligence in the home, a new research paper called RobotValues is asking a question that sounds simple but isn't: what should a household robot do when the people it serves want different things? The work proposes an evaluation framework for robots navigating genuine conflicts between human preferences, a problem that gets thornier the more capable these machines become.
And OpenAI has quietly published guidance on model optimization for developers using its API, offering more granular tools for tuning performance and cost. It's a practical move that signals growing pressure to make large language model deployments leaner, as enterprises push back on the expense of running inference at scale.
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