March 14, 2025
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March 14, 2025
Microsoft Launches New AI Chat Web App Template for .NET Development
Last week, Microsoft announced a new AI Chat Web App template, available in preview, designed to simplify AI development with .NET. This template is part of Microsoft’s ongoing efforts to make AI more accessible, offering scaffolding and guidance in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and the .NET CLI. As explained, the .NET AI Chat template helps developers quickly build AI-powered chat applications. It includes a Blazor-based web app and leverages Microsoft.Extensions.AI and Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData abstractions, following the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern commonly used in chat applications. Key features include the ability to create a chat interface that interacts with custom data,
March 14, 2025
Week-long Exchange Online outage causes email failures, delays
Microsoft says it partially mitigated a week-long Exchange Online outage causing delays or failures when sending or receiving email messages. While the company didn’t publicly share information on this incident, it tagged it as a critical service issue tracked under EX1027675 on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Microsoft has yet to share more information on what regions were affected by this outage, but it said the incident impacted “any user serviced by the impacted portion of infrastructure.” Customers worldwide also reported experiencing email delivery failures over the last week, with those impacted saying they were receiving a Non-Delivery Report (NDR)
March 14, 2025
Indie studios and homebrewers are still making great new RPGs with a 25-year-old King’s Field toolkit
The days of yore: A quarter century ago, Dark Souls creator FromSoftware released a toolkit with King’s Field so fans could try their hand at modding and level making. It’s hard to believe those tools are still around and cranking out modern classics that will take you back to the late 90s. In 2023, a little-known indie developer released Lunacid – a retro dungeon crawler that paid homage to FromSoftware games, King’s Field and Shadow Tower – the progenitors of the Elden Ring series. The studio, Kira LLC, just posted a new Steam page confirming it is ready to release
March 14, 2025
Google’s Gemini AI Can Personalize Results Based on Your Search Queries
Google’s AI model Gemini is getting even more personal. The company announced this week that enabling a new personalization tool will allow the AI chatbot to reference your search history to enhance and deepen its responses. In a blog post, the company said it will analyze queries and cross-reference your searches to provide “contextually relevant responses that are adapted to your individual interests.” Google said it’s part of a broader strategy for Gemini to not only answer general questions but to better understand you. It added that it will only reference your search results when it determines they can meaningfully
March 14, 2025
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission prepares to help bring the Starliner astronauts home
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission was originally scheduled to launch Wednesday evening from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A, before NASA and SpaceX scrubbed the attempt “due to a hydraulic system issue with a ground support clamp arm.” Now that has been addressed and the launch is rescheduled for Friday, March 14th at 7:03PM ET, with a backup opportunity on Saturday at 6:41PM ET. Once its there, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will finally get a safe ride back home to Earth after being stranded aboard the ISS for nine months. Their Boeing Starliner mission that launched to the
March 14, 2025
How to get your grill ready for the outdoor season
Even if Punxsutawney Phil was correct, warm weather is still right around the corner. That means it’s time to prepare your outdoor space for maximum relaxation when temperatures begin to rise. Since this will likely include flexing your culinary muscle on the grill, now’s the time to do a deep clean so you’re ready for action. I don’t blame you if you opted to let your grill hibernate during the winter months, but if that’s the case, it’ll probably need a tune-up before spring arrives. If you did keep the grill in working order over the last few months, this
March 14, 2025
Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s hidden motives
In a new paper published Thursday titled “Auditing language models for hidden objectives,” Anthropic researchers described how models trained to deliberately conceal certain motives from evaluators could still inadvertently reveal secrets, thanks to their ability to adopt different contextual roles or “personas.” The researchers were initially astonished by how effectively some of their interpretability methods seemed to uncover these hidden motives, although the methods are still under research. While the research involved models trained specifically to conceal motives from automated software evaluators called reward models (RMs), the broader purpose of studying hidden objectives is to prevent future scenarios where powerful
March 14, 2025
VAR Technology Faces Backlash Following Champions League Controversy
A controversial VAR (Video Assistant Referee) decision helped eliminate Atletico Madrid from the Champions League after Julian Alvarez’s penalty was disallowed for a near-microscopic double touch. Despite referee Szymon Marciniak standing just feet away and missing the infraction, VAR officials intervened without the typically required “clear and obvious error” standard. This incident has exemplified the paradox of video review technology in football: introduced to reduce controversies, VAR has instead multiplied them. Technical implementation varies significantly across competitions — some MLS stadiums have fewer cameras available for review than others — creating inconsistent application. The Premier League claims VAR increased correct
March 14, 2025
Understanding CAG (Cache Augmented Generation): AI’s Conversation Memory With APIpie.ai
Ever noticed how your favorite AI assistant sometimes forgets what you were just talking about? Or how you need to keep reminding it of important context from earlier in your conversation? There’s a solution that’s changing the game: Cache Augmented Generation (CAG). Building on advancements in vector databases and retrieval systems, CAG enhances AI responses by intelligently maintaining conversation context, creating more natural and coherent interactions. What is Cache Augmented Generation (CAG)? Imagine if your AI could remember your entire conversation history and use that context to give you more relevant, personalized responses. That’s essentially what Cache Augmented Generation (CAG)