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Tuesday July 23, 2024. 01:00 PM
A WIRED investigation finds that major players like Activision Blizzard, which recently laid off scores of workers, are using generative AI for game development.
In space, no one can hear you scream when you step on one ESA's space brick has landed in LEGO® stores, but you can't buy the 3D-printed items to add to your own creations.…
For now it's Capgemini to the rescue (again) Updated The UK's Treasury ministry is to determine the fate of aging SAP software that runs the nation's tax system – processing £750 billion ($968 billion) of transactions a year – over the coming weeks.…
Simon Sharwood reports via The Register: Chinese researchers have created a drone that weighs just over four grams -- less than a sheet of printer paper -- and may be able to fly indefinitely. Documented in a paper published last week in Nature, the drone uses an...
Six years after Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu prepares to release his adaptation of one of Broadway’s biggest musicals. From a table at his family’s famous Chinese restaurant, he opens up about his childhood among the titans of tech—and why filmmakers shouldn’t be...
First nasty to exploit Modbus to screw with operational tech devices A previously unseen malware, dubbed FrostyGoop, able to disrupt industrial processes was used in a cyberattack against a district energy company in Ukraine last northern winter, resulting in two days...
The code, the first of its kind, was used to sabotage a heating utility in Lviv at the coldest point in the year—what appears to be yet another innovation in Russia’s torment of Ukrainian civilians.
Proprietary code goes unpublished – but no FOSS package ever dies Opinion One of the delicious promises of open source software is eternal life. In literature from Gilgamesh on, this has been a classic trap for the careless and greedy, but this is FOSS so it must be true....
But does it matter when all Grace needs to is to babysit GPUs? Comment AMD has claimed its current datacenter silicon is already more than twice as fast, and up to 2.75 times more efficient, than Nvidia's Grace CPU Superchips.…
Rosemary Fowler, a pioneering physicist who discovered the kaon particle during her doctoral research in 1948, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol -- 75 years after she left her PhD to raise a family. The Guardian reports: Rosemary Fowler,...
Government doesn't seem to mind – and business is into it, claims report Hong Kong's government and local businesses undermine sanctions by deliberately facilitating the transfer of restricted and sensitive technology to naughty regimes, according to a report released on...
Put those pesky crashes in the past with a fun microcode upgrade! Intel has promised to deliver a fix for some of its recent desktop processors suffering 'stability issues.'…
Another sign of China's technological turn inwards – but not, sadly, a SPARC revival Tencent Cloud has launched a version of its homebrew cut of Linux distribution CentOS.…
TikTok labels AI-generated material and warns about potentially deceptive content. A Lite version popular in the Global South, though, lacks these and other safeguards.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Researchers from Google have built a new weather prediction model that combines machine learning with more conventional techniques, potentially yielding accurate forecasts at a fraction of the current cost. The...
Wiz, the cloud security startup that was in acquisition talks with Google, has decided not to forward with the deal and to remain an independent company, according to an internal note sent to company employees on Monday. Fortune: 'While we are flattered by offers we have...
Wagering boomed – and so did the quantity of money heading offshore Indonesia has an online gambling problem. Despite having blocked access to wagering content over 2.5 million times last year, the nation’s Ministry of Communications and Information (KomInfo), believes...
The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association claims that AI-powered search engines by U.S. tech giants like Google and Microsoft likely infringe on copyright by using news articles without permission. Therefore, they're urging the Japanese government to quickly...
Azure used to be a cloud platform dedicated to Windows. Now, it's the most widely used operating system on Microsoft Azure. The New Stack's Joab Jackson writes: These days, Microsoft expends considerable effort that Linux runs as smoothly as possible on Azure, according to a ...
'Anyone who is into gaming knows your graphics card is under strain trying to display modern graphics,' writes longtime Slashdot reader smooth wombat. 'This results in increased power usage, which is then turned into heat. Keeping your card cool is a must to get the best...
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