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Monday January 27, 2025. 11:16 PM
Uncle Sam will 'no longer blindly dole out money,' State Dept says Updated US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has frozen nearly all foreign aid cash for a full-on government review, including funds to defend America's allies from cyberattacks as well as steer international...
Mark Zuckerberg recently struck a new pose in hopes of pleasing President Trump, saying Meta would no longer check facts or censor free speech, and blaming other executives for previous policies at the company he runs. Since then, however, the company has struggled to...
Amid ongoing fears over TikTok, Chinese generative AI platform DeepSeek says it’s sending heaps of US user data straight to its home country, potentially setting the stage for greater scrutiny.
The e-ink Pebble watch (reviewed here 12 years ago) was a Kickstarter success story and much-loved by users who still appreciate its stylish simplicity. But it was soon lost to the smartwatch revolution and the company behind it went under in 2016. — Read the rest The post P...
Dangerous temperatures could kill 50% more people in Europe by the end of the century, a study has found, with the lives lost to stronger heat projected to outnumber those saved from milder cold. From a report: The researchers estimated an extra 8,000 people would die each...
Google has open-sourced the PebbleOS, with the original founder, Eric Migicovsky, starting a company to continue where he left off in 2016. 'This is part of an effort from Google to help and support the volunteers who have come together to maintain functionality for Pebble...
Microsoft plans to soon remove its official web page for Windows themes and desktop wallpapers. The company has not given an exact date for when this will happen. The site, which Microsoft says is outdated, has previously offered visitors downloadable theme packs for both...
An 'unprecedented' outbreak of tuberculosis has hit the state of Kansas, according to USA Today, making it 'the largest in recorded history in the United States.' Most of the cases have broken out in Wyandotte County and Johnson County. 'Currently, Kansas has the largest...
Microsoft has launched an open-source document database platform built on PostgreSQL, partnering with FerretDB as a front-end interface. The solution includes two PostgreSQL extensions: pg_documentdb_core for BSON optimization and pg_documentdb_api for data operations....
Maxwell, Pascal and Volta, oh my! But fear not, driver support is still safe Updated The end of the road is nearing for a range of aging Nvidia graphics cards, as support for several architectures was marked as feature-complete in the latest release of its CUDA runtime this...
In iOS 18.3, Apple Intelligence is now turned on by default. Here’s how to disable it.
Nvidia has responded to the market panic over Chinese AI group DeepSeek, arguing that the startup's breakthrough still requires 'significant numbers of NVIDIA GPUs' for its operation. The US chipmaker, which saw more than $600 billion wiped from its market value on Monday,...
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has launched Janus Pro, a new family of open-source multimodal models that it claims outperforms OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion's offering on key benchmarks. The models, ranging from 1 billion to 7 billion parameters, are available on...
Sir Paul McCartney has strongly opposed suggested alterations to the U.K.’s copyright law, cautioning that they might facilitate “rip-off” technology that threatens the livelihoods of artists and musicians. In a rare interview on BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg,...
DeepSeek is China's entrance to the top shelf of language models, and it is competitive with U.S. counterparts while reportedly being vastly more efficient to develop. U.S. AI stocks, including hardware provider NVidia, are 'plunging' as a result, reports CNN Business. —...
Meta's AI chatbot will now use personal data from users' Facebook and Instagram accounts for personalized responses in the United States and Canada, the company said in a blog post. The upgraded Meta AI can remember user preferences from previous conversations across...
In an unsettling development, researchers from Fudan University in China have demonstrated that artificial intelligence systems have crossed a critical “red line” by successfully replicating themselves without human intervention. This breakthrough has sparked alarm within...
A MAGA official in Pennsylvania thought she had the same rights as billionaire Elon Musk — until she imitated his Nazi salute and was forced to resign from her job. 'Just checking in on my friends who are struggling this week,' Laura Smith — the Towamencin Township...
VC Summer units 2 and 3, abandoned in 2017, are looking for a buyer; owners say tech industry needs are a perfect fit Abandoned in 2017, a pair of incomplete South Carolina nuclear reactors may get a new lease on life due to the growing need to power AI datacenters.…
Two years ago, OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched a new wave of AI disruption that left the tech industry reassessing its future. Now within the space of a week a small Chinese startup called DeepSeek appears to have pulled off a similar coup, this time at OpenAI’s expense....
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