The 2038 Bug Has Already Started — and Your 64-bit Server May Not Save You

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In 2006, servers began behaving strangely. Scheduled tasks stopped running, database connections froze and processes became unresponsive. There was no cyberattack, no hardware failure and no obvious explanation. The culprit was something far more mundane: a calculation involving time. AOLserver, the open-source web server once developed by AOL, had a workaround for a situation that … Read more

GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI’s Boldest AI Yet — and the Questions It Cannot Answer

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OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra could mark the beginning of the AGI era. The more uncomfortable possibility is that it may also mark the beginning of an era in which AI becomes harder to understand. There is something different about GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI is not presenting its latest model simply as a smarter chatbot: Astra is … Read more