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Friday April 4, 2025. 01:42 AM
So much for Day One when it comes to the instant economic boom Trump promised his tariffs would bring. Although on the campaign trail last year Trump told Bloomberg editor John Micklethwait that his 'beautiful' tariffs would shower Americans with economic relief 'right...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Ryan Whitwam: Researchers at DeepMind have... released a new technical paper (PDF) that explains how to develop AGI safely, which you can download at your convenience. It contains a huge amount of detail,...
Remember when Trump promised the economy would transform into a working-class paradise 'on Day One'? Apparently that schedule only applied to tax cuts for millionaires like JD Vance, who's now explaining why the rest of us need to embrace empty refrigerators for the cause. —...
Air conditioning will contribute more to rising global energy demand than data centers through 2030, according to an International Energy Agency. While attention has focused on computing power consumption, the IEA projects data centers will account for less than 10% of...
Shape shifting technique described as menace to national security The US govt's Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency, aka CISA, on Thursday urged organizations, internet service providers, and security firms to strengthen defenses against so-called fast flux attacks.…
U.S. stock markets suffered their worst day since the Covid pandemic after Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs, triggering a global selloff and wiping out $470 billion in value from tech giants Apple and Nvidia. From a report: The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 6%, while the ...
Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture operating Intel's chipmaking facilities, with TSMC taking a 20% stake, The Information reports [non-paywalled source]. Intel and other U.S. semiconductor companies...
Thursday April 3, 2025. 11:43 PM
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft's business-oriented 'Link' mini-desktop PC, which connects directly to the company's Windows 365 cloud service, is now available to buy for $349.99 in the US and in several other countries. Windows 365 Link, which was announced...
There isn’t a lot to this story beyond the fact that in around 1990 I helped debug someone’s Lotus 1-2-3 set up via fax. But it’s a good reminder of how important the Zeroth Law of Debugging is (see below). Without some sort of online connection with these folks, and with...
If you’re elbow-deep in ’90s retrocomputing and maintain a fleet of your own personal seemingly identical but definitely completely different Windows 98 machines, Windows 9x QuickInstall is tailor-made just for you. It takes the root file system of an already installed...
And it can be yours for a rather steep $349 Microsoft's Windows 365 Link has reached general availability, although some may question its value.…
Enterprise IT leaders are facing a double-whammy of uncertainties complicating their data center building decisions: The ever-changing realities of genAI strategies, and the back-and-forth nature of the current tariff wars pushed by the United States. “This is obviously a...
Although movement is underway to get AI to think more like humans, researchers at Elon University are exploring the reverse — how AI might reshape human thinking. A newly released university report, “Being Human in 2035: How Are We Changing in the Age of AI?” offers a...
Oh, thank heaven. Mozilla is finally doing something about the horribly messy (and sometimes confusing) data consent experience in Firefox extensions. If you’ve ever installed a Firefox add-on and been hit with some clunky, homemade data collection prompt, you’re not...
Amazon’s rollout of Alexa+, the AI-focused upgrade to its popular virtual assistant, may have some users asking, “Alexa, where are the new features?” For example, Alexa+ can’t yet order takeout on Grubhub or identify family members from its camera to remind them to...
The Rust team has announced Rust 1.86, an update of the language that now features trait upcasting, or the ability to upcast trait objects. Rust 1.86 was announced April 3. For users with a previous version of Rust, the update can be accessed via the rustup tool by running...
Microsoft is urging Office 2016 and 2019 customers to upgrade to Microsoft 365 before support ends Oct. 14, but analysts said viable alternatives are available outside Microsoft’s walled garden. “Continuing to use unsupported software can expose your organization to ...
Artificial intelligence and satellites have been deployed to track extensive infrastructure damage caused by the 7.7-magnitude earthquake to help aid workers in Myanmar. At midday on March 28, an earthquake hit Southeast Asia, collapsing buildings, dams, roads, and bridges....
Anthropic introduced Claude for Education, a new mode and initiative for integrating generative AI into higher education. Claude for Education is available now. Anthropic has also inked partnerships with Northeastern University, London School of Economics and Political...
A black lab named Pepsi couldn't help herself, zooming across a lake to chase ducks even when her dog-sitters repeatedly told her to come back. But when the pup eventually got bored and swam back to shore, she knew she had to come up with a good one to get herself out of...
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