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Friday September 13, 2024. 10:41 PM
Dell and HP executives have acknowledged a delay in the anticipated commercial PC refresh cycle. Michael Dell, speaking at the Citi 2024 Global TMT conference, stated that the refresh cycle 'has been delayed for sure.' The Register adds: Without offering any reasons for...
OpenAI's latest models have 'meaningfully' increased the risk that AI will be misused to create biological weapons [non-paywalled link], the company has acknowledged. From a report: The San Francisco-based company announced its new models, known as o1, on Thursday, touting...
It’s always a lovely day when it’s a Haiku release day – and sadly, those don’t come very often. Of course, Haiku’s nightlies tend to be rather solid so an official release isn’t really a must if you want to use Haiku, but if you were holding out for something more stable:...
That's zloty money but is it too little, too late? Updated Intel is scrambling to stanch the bleeding of its floundering foundry business, but in Poland at least the chipmaker's luck is looking up.…
Japan is overhauling how its ubiquitous 24-hour mini-police stations are operated nationwide as more crime fighting moves from the streets to the web. From a report: Called koban in Japanese, officers at these small police boxes handle a variety of tasks from responding to...
The GNOME Foundation has announced that it is looking for a new Executive Director following the departure of Holly Million in July: As the cornerstone of our leadership team, the Executive Director will play a critical role in shaping the strategic direction of the...
The hard disk drives that the music industry relied on to archive a generation of albums are increasingly unreadable.
Pen-chan is a six-year-old Cape penguin that escaped from Aichi Prefecture, Japan, and entered the sea during an event on August 25th. Pen-chan was born and raised in captivity, so she had no experience swimming in open water or hunting for food, so keepers feared for...
The 34th First Annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony took place at MIT last night, honoring scientific achievements that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think.' The winners included the Japanese researchers behind a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Med with ...
Long before Taco Tuesday became part of the pop-culture vernacular, Tuesdays were synonymous with security — and for anyone in the tech world, they still are. Patch Tuesday, as you most likely know, refers to the day each month when Microsoft releases security updates...
Oh look, another voluntary, non-binding agreement to do better Some of the largest AI firms in America have given the White House a solemn pledge to prevent their AI products from being used to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography and child sexual abuse material.…
To empower tablet users to get more done, we’re enhancing freeform windowing, allowing them to run multiple apps simultaneously and resize windows for optimal multitasking. Today, we’re excited to share that desktop windowing on Android tablets is available in developer...
Addressing four zero-days flaws (CVE-2024-38014, CVE-2024-38217, CVE-2024-43491 and CVE-2024-38217), this month’s Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft includes 79 updates to the Windows platform. There are no patches to Microsoft Exchange Server or the company’s...
Apple unveiled a multitrack recording feature for Voice Memos at its recent iPhone event, exclusive to the iPhone 16 Pro. The feature allows users to layer vocals over guitar tracks without headphones, utilizing advanced microphone technology and machine learning algorithms...
No love for months-long wait to fix this, either Security researchers have revealed a litany of failures in the Feeld dating app that could be abused to access all manner of private user data, including the most sensitive images not intended to be kept or shared.…
In March of 2023 we brought you news of Neuty the nutria, who lives with his humans Denny and Myra Lacoste in Bucktown, Louisiana, right outside of New Orleans. He was rescued from the side of the road by Denny back in 2020 and has been pampered by the Lacostes ever since. —...
Apple asked a court Friday to dismiss its three-year-old hacking lawsuit against spyware pioneer NSO Group, arguing that it might never be able to get the most critical files about NSO's Pegasus surveillance tool and that its own disclosures could aid NSO and its increasing...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Haiku is an open-source operating system, currently in beta development, that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the Be Operating System (BeOS), Haiku aims to become a fast, efficient, and...
OpenAI said its project Strawberry has graduated to a new family of large language models (LLMs) that the company has christened OpenAI o1. The new family of models, which also includes an o1-mini version for cost efficiency, according to the company, can be differentiated...
A lumen is equivalent to the light produced by a birthday candle as viewed from a foot away. The Imalent MS32 flashlight is like a birthday cake for a 200,000-year-old. It's brighter than 100 car headlights. It costs $750, weighs 6.6 lbs, and comes with a rechargeable...
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