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Plus: China’s Salt Typhoon hackers target 600 companies in 80 countries, Tulsi Gabbard purges CIA agents, hackers knock out Iranian ship communications, and more.
Alibaba, China's largest cloud-computing company, has developed a domestically manufactured, versatile inference chip to fill the gap left by U.S. restrictions on Nvidia's sales in China. The Wall Street Journal reports: Previous cloud-computing chips developed by Alibaba...
Plus: Level debuts a discreet smart lock, Chipolo unveils rechargeable Bluetooth trackers, Samsung releases a budget tablet, and Nothing faces backlash for using stock photography.
Instagram has a handful of updates to explore – some available to everyone, others in testing with a smaller group. First up there are updates to the handling of DMs, something Instagram is billing as being aimed at creators. While creators’ inboxes are likely to be...
All good things must come to an end All good things must come to an end, and so too must the blocky glory of the Kilopixel. As the wood and robotic marvel crested the 200,000-pixel mark, its creator pulled the metaphorical plug.…
China has turned on the world's most sensitive neutrino detector after more than a decade of construction. The Register reports: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Experiment (JUNO) is buried 700 meters under a mountain and features a 20,000-tonne 'liquid scintillator...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact. The...
Mastodon says it cannot comply with Mississippi's new age verification law because its decentralized software does not support age checks and the nonprofit lacks resources to enforce them. 'The social nonprofit explains that Mastodon doesn't track its users, which makes it...
This is a strange one because it is so easily disproven, but the Mouth of Moron claims gas prices are down so go take a road trip this Labor Day! These are not the lowest gas prices in five years. — Read the rest The post Karoline Leavitt's baffling statement about the...
Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions on its AI chatbots for teens after reports revealed they were allowed to engage in 'romantic' conversations with minors. A Meta spokesperson said the AI chatbots are now being trained so that they do not generate responses to teens...
Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has doubled down on his company's refusal to integrate generative AI into its browser, arguing that embedding AI in browsing dehumanizes the web, funnels traffic away from publishers, and primarily serves to harvest user data. 'Every startup is...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Earlier this month, EA announced that players in its Battlefield 6 open beta on PC would have to enable Secure Boot in their Windows OS and BIOS settings. That decision proved controversial among players who weren't able ...
Researchers examining a well-preserved human skeleton recently excavated in Vietnam concluded that the man was about 35 years old when he died some 12,000 years ago and was mortally injured by a projectile tipped with quartz. The quartz shows signs of 'human workmanship' and ...
Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email.
Reuters has found that Meta appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission. 'While many were created by users with a Meta tool for building chatbots, Reuters discovered that a Meta employee had...
Asus' RTX 5090 30th Anniversary Limited Edition has an unusual design, the 'highest available' GPU clock speed, a copper vapor chamber, liquid metal thermal compound, four fans, and a thirst for up to 800 watts of power. All that's missing are the finest wines available to...
If you’re of a certain age (and not American), there’s a specific corporate font you’re most likely aware of. You may not know its exact name, and you may not actively remember it, but once you see it, you know exactly what you’re looking at. The font’s called Nokia Sans...
Linus Torvalds updated the kernel's MAINTAINERS file to mark Bcachefs as 'externally maintained,' signaling he won't accept new Bcachefs pull requests for now. 'MAINTAINERS: mark bcachefs externally maintained,' wrote Torvalds with the patch. 'As per many long discussion...
Friday August 29, 2025. 11:49 PM
End of verified end user status means South Korean memory vendors will need licenses to bring restricted chipmaking tech into Chinese fabs The US government already has a lot to say about what products chipmakers can and can't sell in China. This week the Commerce Department ...
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