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Saturday September 28, 2024. 03:30 AM
The Register's Tobias Mann reports: Oracle could choose to take control of Ampere Computing, the Arm processor designer it has backed and uses in its cloud. A proxy statement [PDF] filed on Wednesday reveals that Oracle held 29 percent stake in Ampere as of May 31, 2024, and ...
At its Connect event earlier this week, Meta said it'll be adding conversational voices to its AI chatbot from celebrities like Awkwafina, John Cena, Dame Judi Dench, Keegan-Michael Key and Kristen Bell. The Verge reports: These celebrity voices will only be available to US...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Jack Ryan from San Diego was recently being interviewed for a job. On a video call, the interviewer, a woman with red hair, said, 'I find it helps when candidates tell me a story in answering the questions.' 'I'm looking...
Meta has been fined $101.5 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for storing over half a billion user passwords in plain text for years, with some engineers having access to this data for over a decade. The issue, discovered in 2019, predominantly affected...
iFixit's iPhone 16 teardown revealed a new battery removal process that does away with the usual pull tabs, instead opting for an adhesive that debonds when exposed to a low electrical current. 'It only takes about a minute and a half for it to come unstuck,' reports...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by John Timmer: [P]art of the software stack that companies are developing to control their quantum hardware includes software that converts abstract representations of quantum algorithms into the series of...
Friday September 27, 2024. 11:45 PM
Snoops allegedly camped out in inboxes well into September The US Department of Justice has charged three Iranians for their involvement in a 'wide-ranging hacking campaign' during which they allegedly stole massive amounts of materials from Donald Trump's 2024 presidential...
Meta Platforms' claims that Facebook doesn't polarize Americans came under new doubt as the journal Science raised questions about a prominent research paper the tech giant has cited to support its position. WSJ: In an editorial Thursday, Science said that Meta's emergency...
The Coast Guard hearings into the OceanGate disaster are done. Next comes the full report—and any potential criminal investigations.
23andMe is not doing well. Its stock is on the verge of being delisted. It shut down its in-house drug-development unit last month, only the latest in several rounds of layoffs. Last week, the entire board of directors quit, save for Anne Wojcicki, a co-founder and the...
Now Arm reportedly approached, rebuffed by Chipzilla. Who's next? MOS Technology? Comment Brit chip designer Arm is reportedly the latest to make an attempted play for Intel's product division.…
AI screengrab service to be opt-in, features encryption, biometrics, enclaves, more Microsoft has revised the Recall feature for its Copilot+ PCs and insists that the self-surveillance system is secure.…
SpzToid shares a report: Today, a group of independent security researchers revealed that they'd found a flaw in a web portal operated by the carmaker Kia that let the researchers reassign control of the Internet-connected features of most modern Kia vehicles -- dozens of...
Like Amazon’s summer Prime Day sales event, Prime Big Deal Days, starting October 8, offers an extravaganza of savings on a number of popular tech categories. Our list of the best Amazon deals below has been curated by PCWorld’s tech experts, who collectively have been...
The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch a satellite into Earth's orbit in 2027 to watch it get wrecked as it reenters the atmosphere. From a report: The project is intended to help understand how exactly satellites break apart so that scientists can learn how to...
The United Nations is set to vote on a treaty later this year intended to create norms for fighting cybercrime -- and the Biden administration is fretting over whether to sign on. Politico: The uncertainty over the treaty stems from fears that countries including Russia,...
“That appointment—that relationship—is everything,” says audio executive Eric Eddings. But that doesn't mean the industry isn't innovating.
Steam just removed its forced arbitration policy, opening the door for lawsuits against its parent company, Valve. From a report: In an update on Thursday, Steam says its subscriber agreement 'now provides that any disputes are to go forward in court instead of arbitration.' ...
A new technique could prevent tons of waste in the future—if it can scale.
Former president Donald Trump wants you to buy gaudy, overpriced timepieces “made for those who combine boldness and elegance.” He got one part right.
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