Astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore is leaving NASA after a quarter-century of service. Wilmore flew on four different spacecraft during his astronaut career, which began way back in 2000. He spent a total of 464 days off Earth and conducted five spacewalks,…
Use OpenAI’s new models to run AI locally on your Mac
One of the two new open-weight models from OpenAI can bring ChatGPT-like reasoning to your Mac with no subscription needed. On August 5, OpenAI launched two new large language models with publicly available weights: gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b. These are the first…
Hackers use “voice phishing” attack to steal Cisco customer personal info
A scammer tricked a Cisco employee into granting access to a CRM The attacker then used the access to exfiltrate sensitive data Affected customers were notified “where required by law” Cisco has admitted recently suffering a cyberattack which saw it lose…
OpenAI has finally released open-weight language models
“The vast majority of our [enterprise and startup] customers are already using a lot of open models,” said Casey Dvorak, a research program manager at OpenAI, in a media briefing about the model release. “Because there is no [competitive] open model…
Censorship and stolen puritanical valor
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a…