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Apple's failed self-driving car project turns out to have a quiet legacy worth paying attention to. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the neural processing demands of autonomous driving pushed Apple to develop on-device AI silicon that never made it into a car, but did find its way into the iPhone and Mac chips powering Apple's AI ambitions today.
From unexpected origins to unexpected security tactics — a developer has released an open-source tool called Honeyprompt, a honeypot designed specifically for the age of large language models. Rather than simply logging intrusion attempts, it talks back to attackers, engaging them in conversation while capturing their methods. It is a clever inversion of the usual cat-and-mouse dynamic.
And on the hardware front, Lenovo has quietly upgraded its Legion seven-a gaming laptop with a new graphics option — the RTX fifty seventy with twelve gigabytes of video memory, paired with a Ryzen AI nine processor. The catch is the price, which lands at three thousand three hundred seventy-five dollars, a significant premium for what is still a mid-tier mobile GPU tier.
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