Skype for Windows Version 1.4, which was previously released as beta software last month adds a number of new features such as increased mobility options, new personalized ring tones, sounds andpictures, improved sound quality (about time eh?) and more ways to connect to your friends and family. Other new features include a new Call Forwarding service that will allow callers to forwardincoming Skype calls to another Skype name or up to three landline or mobile numbers when the caller is away. "Skype pioneered free Internet phone calls, and even with more than 56million people already registered, we’ve recently seen our growth accelerate to over 170,000 new registrations a day," said Niklas Zennstrom, CEO and Co-founder of Skype. "We are passionateabout really understanding what motivates people to want to make Internet communications a part of their everyday lives, and listening to our callers about what they want from Skype allows us to stayahead of the game. Today, we are thrilled to be delivering on this promise by offering a new version of Skype which both new and existing callers will find adds powerful and innovative new featureslike call forwarding and personalization, as well as offering our best ever sound quality on our simplest product to install and use." For those that want to personalize their Skypesoftware with ring tones and other features, a small charge applies – $1.20. We can’t figure out if this is a monthly charge, a one time charge or what though. So if you know, please post belowin the comments section. You can download the latest version from the Skype website.
San Francisco startup Dimensional advertised for people to walk robot dogs through city streets. The New York Times reported that the job could include carrying a roughly 33-pound robot back to the office if it overheated. A lift home is an awkward requirement for a labor-saving machine.
Keeping the hardware running is only one challenge. Anthropic's robotics tests found that language models mostly failed when controlling joints directly, but did better when directing trained controllers. Giving an AI agent a body doesn't teach it to handle ordinary household objects.
Soon, a mattress protector may be more than a bed cover. Australian medtech company Sleeptite and researchers at RMIT University have received a US patent for FlexiSense, a smart bedding technology that tracks body position and posture to help caregivers identify when older residents may be at risk of falling.
The technology is being developed for Sleeptite’s in-bed monitoring system, REMi, and was recently on display at The MedTech Conference in Boston. A peer-reviewed study in Flexible and Printed Electronics says the sensors can also be made at scale without sacrificing performance or durability.
AI companies spend enormous amounts of time convincing us their technology is safe and secure. But what happens when those same companies become targets of increasingly sophisticated AI-powered attacks? Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is now facing that question. According to a Washington Post report, cybersecurity startup Cathedral discovered vulnerabilities that let its researchers access sensitive information in Anthropic's internal systems.
The researchers used AI agents to identify potential entry points in less than 12 hours. Interestingly, they didn't need to crack Claude itself. Instead, they exploited weaknesses in third-party business applications that Anthropic uses for everyday operations. Anthropic's security testing program disclosed the findings, which allows outside researchers to identify and report vulnerabilities.