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Thursday November 7, 2024. 02:27 AM
Government wants to make semiconductors big on home turf again Japan has asked AI chip startup Tenstorrent to train up to 200 chip designers from the country at its US offices over the course of five years to help inject new blood into Japan’s semiconductor industry.…
Intel faces a class-action lawsuit alleging its 13th and 14th generation desktop processors from 2022 and 2023 are defective, causing system instability and frequent crashes. The suit claims that Intel knew of the issue but continued marketing the processors anyway. The...
The federal government of Canada has ordered TikTok to shut down its operations in the country, citing national security concerns. However, Canadians will still be able to access the app and use it to create content. 'The decision to use a social media application or...
OpenAI has acquired the chat.com domain name, likely for well over $10 million. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a one-word tweet this morning, simply stating, 'chat.com.' Domain Name Wire reports: The chat.com domain name has changed hands for the third time in two years....
Wednesday November 6, 2024. 11:50 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, Anthropic launched the latest version of its smallest AI model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, in a way that marks a departure from typical AI model pricing trends -- the new model costs four times more to run than its...
In October, Microsoft unveiled a roadmap for next-generation AI experiences within Windows 11. Today, two of those — in Paint and Notepad — begin rolling out to testers. Microsoft’s October AI roadmap included tweaks to Paint, Notepad, and Search. Microsoft Recall was...
A new Windows Insider test build seeks to solve one of the more frustrating problems with Windows on Arm: when an application simply doesn’t work. Build 27744 within the Microsoft Windows 11 Canary Channel contains a new version of Microsoft’s Prism emulator, with a key...
Conspiracy theories about missing votes—which are not, in fact, missing—and something being “not right” are being spread widely on X in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory.
Thanks to Elon Musk’s influence, the president-elect has waffled on the future of America’s electric transition.
A six-month German pilot of a four-day workweek across 45 companies demonstrated that most employees experienced reduced stress and maintained productivity, with some companies adopting optimized processes and digital tools to enhance efficiency. The report says 70% of the...
In case today’s news cycle wasn’t shocking enough, here’s a gem from Sophos Fresh from a series of serious reports detailing its five-year battle with Chinese cyberattackers, Sophos has dropped a curious story about users of a popular infostealer-cum-RAT targeting a...
Prediction markets like Kalshi beat pollsters in forecasting the 2024 US election. Mansour now says financial marketplaces are the future of political prognostication.
'AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D debuts with impressive performance gains, powered by advanced 3D V-Cache technology and improved thermal efficiency,' writes Slashdot reader jjslash. 'While the CPU shines as a top choice right out of the gate, AMD's history of quick price cuts...
The crypto industry is celebrating the return of Donald Trump to the White House in anticipation of an easier ride under his regime.
On the ground, the Trump campaign was at a disadvantage to Kamala Harris’s massive canvassing operations. But many misunderstood the power—and purpose—of influencer marketing campaigns.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The US supreme court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Meta's Facebook to scuttle a federal securities fraud lawsuit brought by shareholders who accused the social media platform of misleading them about the misuse of...
This updated Sony console delivers better graphics but at a perhaps unreasonably high cost.
More than two years after a historic Supreme Court decision ended the national right to an abortion, some states are fighting back—but the future of abortion rights remains in doubt.
Failure to warn customers about chip flaw leads to fraud claim Intel was sued in a federal court in San Jose, California, on Tuesday, based on claims that the chipmaker's 13th and 14th generation desktop processors from 2022 and 2023 are defective.…
Electromagnetic radiation contributed to that zincing feeling: analysts The collapse of the 305-meter telescope at Arecibo Observatory in 2020 is being attributed to zinc creep – slow deformation due to stress – in the telescope's cable spelter sockets, according to a...
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