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Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet started in journalism as an honest B2B IT-sector reporter before straying into business, politics, and international affairs. He is currently in recovery, studying AI while writing about everything from hardware to infosec policy.

Deloitte used govt client's own GPT to invent references

Then failed to disclose it, took a month to fix errors publicly pointed out, and is apparently on the hook for a partial refund

CodeMender: Google unveils full-auto security patch AI

Human-in-the-loop … for now.

Looks like Foxconn will be 50% AI – even with iPhone 17

Apple's manufacturer-in-chief is still running hard to keep up with NVIDIA's demand, and it's very much AI.

Microsoft scientist proves AI can beat vendor guardrails – in DNA

AI-designed proteins can bypass screening tools already.

Didn't patch Oracle E-Business 80 days ago? You've got (ransom) mail

Oracle, somewhat pithily, confirms extortion demands of up to $50 million may be based on real data grabbed via zero-authentication, remote exploit.

Microsoft turns on shadow AI by default, says not to worry

If you don't turn off multiple account access, employees can log in with personal credentials to get Copilot.

Fire up the auto-forward: Gmail kills POP3 fetch

Because it hates that ancient email workflow you never updated. And also easy migration.

new deepseek model takes sparse attention approach

"Significant efficiency improvements" claimed in long-context, alongside costs on par with Gemini Flash and gpt-5-nano.

South Korea says 'weeks' to full restore after UPS goes bang

Sparking decade-plus lithium took down hundreds of servers that turned out to have no failover.

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