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Monday March 25, 2024. 08:59 PM
How's that free comment thing working out, Elon? Elon Musk's attempt to use the courts to silence a nonprofit documenting hate speech on X has been dismissed by a California judge, who said it was clear the billionaire's legal action was all about putting a lid on...
Cheap low-carbon energy? What's not to love... The land surrounding a nuclear power plant might not sound like prime real estate, but as more bit barns seek to trim costs, it's poised to become a rather hot commodity.…
If you’re willing to wait until Samsung can ship you one of its upcoming 2024 models, you can get a 65-inch LED TV for free. But this preorder promotion ends April 11.
An anonymous reader shares a report: The number of landline users has plummeted with the rise of cellphones, and the 19th-century technology's days appear to be numbered. Providers like AT&T are looking to exit the business by transitioning customers to cellphones or home...
CrowdTangle helps researchers track disinformation, but Meta will close it down before the US election. The tool's cofounder, Brandon Silverman, says it's time to force companies to share data.
Improved workqueues mean the end of tasklets is looming at long last Linus Torvalds just announced the first RC of 6.9 on the Linux Kernel mailing list, saying it 'looks to be fairly normal', although it's a recordbreaker in size.…
An anonymous reader shares a report: About 6,000 older Bitcoin mining machines in the US will soon be idled and sent to a warehouse in Colorado Springs where they'll be refreshed and resold to buyers overseas looking to profit from mining in lower-cost environs. Wholesaler...
Startup slams AMD for buggy firmware After a weeks-long struggle to get its AMD RX 7900XTX-based TinyBox working on open source firmware, Tiny Corp says it will be launching an Nvidia RTX 4090 version for users who want something that 'just works.'…
US and UK officials hit Chinese hacking group APT31 with sanctions and criminal charges after they targeted thousands of businesses, politicians, and critics of China.
Vernor Vinge’s writings heavily influenced futurists like Ray Kurzweil, who in turn influenced those at companies like OpenAI.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Nvidia earned its $2.2 trillion market cap by producing AI chips that have become the lifeblood powering the new era of generative AI developers from startups to Microsoft, OpenAI and Google parent Alphabet. Almost as important to its...
Supply chain attack targeted GitHub community of Top.gg Discord server More than 170,000 users are said to have been affected by an attack using fake Python infrastructure with 'successful exploitation of multiple victims.'…
Be careful where you click Google's new AI-generated search results feature is suffering from the same problem that its regular results have had of late: Spammy, if not outright malicious links are rising to the top of the SERP stack.…
One of the biggest knocks on Windows on Arm PCs powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon chips has been how well applications run. Natively coded apps run just fine, but apps written for traditional X86 processors (read: the vast majority of PCs) have suffered. In part, that’s because...
Atlas VPN informed customers on Monday that it will discontinue its services on April 24, citing technological demands, market competition, and escalating costs as key factors in the decision. The company said it will transfer its paid subscribers to its sister company,...
LLMs powering generative AI may be moving GPUs, but Huang and co already looking at next big opportunity Comment For many, apps like ChatGPT, Copilot, Midjourney, or Gemini are generative AI.…
Apple has been hit with a flurry of new consumer lawsuits accusing the iPhone maker of monopolizing the smartphone market, piggybacking on a sweeping antitrust case lodged by the U.S. Justice Department and 15 states last week. From a report: At least three proposed class...
Go look at Facebook and Google, says Mac man Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has criticized the US government's targeting of TikTok, saying it is hypocritical to single out one social media platform for tracking users and not apply the same rule to all.…
Boffins demonstrate Rowhammer memory meddling on AMD DDR4 hardware Updated ZenHammer would be the perfect name for a heavy metal band, but alas, it's an AMD-focused variant of the decade-old Rowhammer attack that compromises computers by flipping bits of memory.…
The U.K. government has blamed China for a 2021 cyberattack that compromised the personal information of millions of U.K. voters. From a report: In a statement to lawmakers in Parliament on Monday, U.K. deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden attributed the 2021 data breach at...
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