The UK’s Office for Budget Responsibility accidentally leaked its full assessment of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget online just hours before she spoke. The report, the economic and fiscal outlookIt was briefly available before being removed, although it is normally only published after the Chancellor finishes her statement in Parliament. OBR acknowledges leak before budget Reeves…
Researchers at Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab have developed a new framework for self-evolving agents that create their own training data by exploring their application environments. The frame, AgentEvolveruses the knowledge and reasoning capabilities of large language models for autonomous learning, addressing the high costs and manual effort typically required to collect task-specific data sets. Experiments show…
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There comes a point in every consumer tech writer’s career where they have to lie down on the railroad tracks and take the heat for a tech category nobody else believes in. For me, it’s stereoscopic, glasses-less 3D screens. So when I agreed to test the Abxylute 3D One, a tablet-sized handheld PC, it only…
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They will also have to take into account the additional running cost of increased memory on the computers they deploy. That cost may seem insignificant for a single user, but at the scale of thousands of seats, the cumulative consumption could challenge companies’ sustainability goals, in addition to increasing energy bills. Those costs increase. Apple’s…
Apple has added a new ‘Repair Assistant’ to iOS 18, the latest update for compatible iPhones, to better help users manage the original parts used when repairing their phone. First announced in April, MacRumors He has since discovered more details about the tool. With ‘Repair Assistant’, users can now pair original parts, such as a…
European manufacturers face a two-pronged attack from China that has German industry associations warning of deindustrialization: on the one hand, artificially cheap Chinese goods are flooding Europe and, on the other, Beijing has demonstrated its willingness to abruptly cut off access to critical inputs such as rare earths and semiconductors. Alarm intensified in October when…