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Thursday August 7, 2025. 12:00 PM
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: PCI-SIG says PCI Express 8.0 will hit a raw bit rate of 256.0 GT/s, doubling what PCIe 7.0 offers. The spec is expected to be ready by 2028, and the goal is to support massive data loads from AI, machine learning, edge computing,...
Meanwhile, users complain the code shack is getting slower thanks to React GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has stated in a personal blog that the most advanced developers have 'moved from writing code to architecting and verifying the implementation work that is carried out by AI...
Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act Amnesty International claims Elon Musk's X platform 'played a central role' in pushing the misinformation that stoked racially charged violence following last year's Southport...
Lightsockets lovingly hooked up to power supply by passionate, vivacious owners. Would suit professional who wants to read after dark Feature 'Deceptively spacious.' 'Prime location.' 'Up-and-coming area.' 'Some original features,' which occasionally turn out to be asbestos. ...
Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU The UK public sector expects to spend around £9 billion on Microsoft products and services over five years under its current contract.…
In the face of budget cuts, NASA has issued a new directive on how it will procure replacements for the International Space Station.
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Three nano-glass spheres cling to one another. They form a tower-like cluster, similar to when you pile three scoops of ice cream on top of one another -- only much smaller. The diameter of the nano cluster is ten times...
All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience Hands On Earlier this week, OpenAI released two popular open-weight models, both named gpt-oss. Because you can download them, you can run them locally.…
Exemptions available for chipmakers who promise to build American fabs World War Fee US president Donald Trump appears to have settled his semiconductor tariff strategy.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: People withAlzheimer's disease have lower levels of lithium in their brains, and giving lithium to mice with symptoms of the condition reverses cognitive decline. Together, the findings suggest that lithium deficiency...
Rideshare giant wants to use AI for delivery of hyper-personalized offers Uber has revealed its ambition to offer hyper-personalized offers to its customers, but to do so it needs more of them to use more of its apps.…
EreIamJH writes: German tech newsletter Notebookcheck is reporting that the unexpectedly high 20% tariff the U.S. recently imposed on Taiwan is intended to pressure TSMC to buy a 49% minority stake in Intel -- including an IP transfer and to spend $400 billion in the U.S.,...
Bruce66423 shares a report from the BBC: A man who is bringing a High Court challenge against the Metropolitan Police after live facial recognition technology wrongly identified him as a suspect has described it as 'stop and search on steroids.' Shaun Thompson, 39, was...
It's a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program Computer scientist Peter Burke has demonstrated that a robot can program its own brain using generative AI models and host hardware, if properly prompted by handlers.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight...
Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.
alternative_right writes: I use RSS to cover all of my news-reading needs because I like a variety of sources spanning several fields -- politics, philosophy, science, and heavy metal. However, it seems Google wanted to kill off RSS a few years back, and it has since fallen...
Without providing specifics, President Trump said on Wednesday that he will impose a 100% tariff on imports of semiconductors and chips, but not for companies that are 'building in the United States.' CNBC reports: 'We're going to be putting a very large tariff on chips and...
Quick - someone ask Siri if there are still tariffs on India US President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook made a joint announcement from the White House on Wednesday of another Apple pledge to move manufacturing back to the United States, with an additional $100 billion...
A federal judge struck down California's strict anti-deepfake election law, citing Section 230 protections rather than First Amendment concerns. Politico reports: [Judge John Mendez] also said he intended to overrule a second law, which would require labels on digitally...
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