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Saturday August 30, 2025. 12:00 PM
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
The Federal Communications Commission has rejected a call from the National Association of Broadcasters and some industry trade groups that would have imposed cable-style regulatory fees on streaming services, tech companies and pure broadband providers. From a report: In a...
The controls were left wide open on Pudu's robots A researcher caught the world’s leading supplier of commercial service robots using shoddy admin security that let attackers redirect the delivery machines to anywhere and make them follow any command.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: WhatsApp said on Friday that it fixed a security bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used to stealthily hack into the Apple devices of 'specific targeted users.' The Meta-owned messaging app giant said in its...
Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party Alibaba has reportedly developed an AI accelerator amid growing pressure from Beijing to curb the nation's reliance on Nvidia GPUs. …
DOD: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon has halted a decade-old Microsoft program that has allowed Chinese coders, remotely supervised by U.S. contractors, to work on sensitive DOD cloud systems. In a digital video address to the public posted yesterday, the...
Bias, a lack of safety reporting, and the whole 'MechaHitler' thing are all the evidence needed, say authors Public advocacy groups are demanding the US government cease any use of xAI's Grok in the federal government, calling the AI unsafe, untested, and ideologically...
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