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Wednesday February 12, 2025. 12:40 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Since 2022, blogging site Tumblr has been teasing its plans to integrate with the fediverse -- the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub also used by Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, and others. Now, the...
Which is why Cisco is adding these Pensando DPUs to more switches Cisco is cramming into more of its switches Pensando data processing units (DPUs) from AMD, which will be dedicated to handling security, storage, and other tasks.…
For the first time since 2004, PassMark's global CPU benchmark data shows a decline in average processor performance, with laptop CPUs dropping 3.4% and desktop CPUs falling 0.5% year-over-year. Tom's Hardware reports: We see the biggest drop in laptop CPU performance...
Tuesday February 11, 2025. 11:22 PM
The cease-work order at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau won’t just affect lawsuits and enforcement actions. It will stall regulation that could govern tech companies like Apple and Google.
The US, UK, and Australia (AUKUS) have sanctioned Russian bulletproof hosting provider Zservers, accusing it of supporting LockBit ransomware operations by providing secure infrastructure for cybercriminals. The sanctions target Zservers, its UK front company XHOST Internet...
Rustaceans could just wait for unwelcoming C coders to slowly SIGQUIT... The Rust for Linux project is alive and well, despite suggestions to the contrary, even if not every Linux kernel maintainer is an ally.…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed the complaint on behalf of US federal workers, arguing that DOGE’s data access is illegal and should be cut off.
Google is among the first companies to rename maps from Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Other software leaders, like Apple Maps, are starting to follow suit.
Death Cab for Cutie is celebrating the 20th anniversary of their iconic alt.rock album Plans by playing the album all the way through at four shows in Seattle, WA (8/2/25), Chicago (8/5/25), and Brooklyn (8/8/8 and 8/10/25). 'Plans is an album that changed the trajectory...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the United States. In 2020, the media and technology conglomerate filed an unprecedentedAI copyright lawsuit against the legal AI startup Ross Intelligence. In the...
Police arrested a woman for allegedly squishing a sweet bun for sale at a Fukuoka, Japan convenience store. 'I only pressed it lightly in my hand to check the firmness of the bread,' the 40-year-old woman said. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? — Read the rest The...
Anduril will take over management and eventual manufacturing of the U.S. Army's Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) from Microsoft, a significant shift in one of the military's most ambitious augmented reality projects. The deal, which requires Army approval, could...
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rights holders.
These crooks have no chill A previously unknown gang dubbed Triplestrength poses a triple threat to organizations: It infects victims' computers with ransomware, and also hijacks their cloud accounts to illegally mine for cryptocurrency.…
Elon Musk has a reputation for rewriting the rules, and his latest venture at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is no exception. He’s brought on a 19-year-old known as 'Big Balls' to help overhaul how the government operates, causing quite the...
The escalating electricity demands of artificial intelligence systems are raising concerns about the technology’s sustainability — but that’s apparently of little concern to the governments of the US and the UK. They were among the invitees at the Paris AI Action...
Google's Chrome browser might soon get a useful security upgrade: detecting passwords used in data breaches and then generating and storing a better replacement. From a report: Google's preliminary copy suggests it's an 'AI innovation,' though exactly how is unclear. Noted...
Dan Hendrycks is researching new methods of assessing AI risks that could be used to shape Grok’s politics.
Dang it, OLED monitors, stop tempting me with lower prices. I can’t resist those vibrant colors and perfect black levels forever! Take today’s deal, for example: a brand-new Acer Predator 27-inch OLED for a new low price of just $499.99. That’s $100 less than last...
OpenAI’s CEO claims the company has yet to receive an official offer from Elon Musk’s team, sources say.
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