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Monday January 13, 2025. 01:27 AM
Won’t say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react – so far with anger Microsoft has advised users of its M365 suite in six Asian nations that they face big price rises when they renew subscriptions, and says the hikes are...
'The U.K is looking to build a homegrown challenger to OpenAI and drastically increase national computing infrastructure,' reports CNBC, 'as Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government sets its sights on becoming a global leader in artificial intelligence.' The government is...
PLUS: China plans unified APIs; Singapore lets Police run scam victims’ bank accounts; Fujitsu now too cool for aircon Asia In Brief Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC has reported strong annual revenue growth.…
Due to a 'rapid expansion of solar capacity,' Germany generated 72.2 TWh of solar power in 2024, reports PV magazine, 'accounting for 14% of its total electricity output, according to Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. 'Wind power remained Germany's...
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The University of Colorado Boulder's magazine recently wrote: What happened during the 'Snowball Earth' period is perplexing: Just as the planet endured about 100 million years of deep freeze, with a thick layer of ice covering most of Earth and with low levels of...
SC Media reports on a new jailbreak method for large language models (LLMs) that 'takes advantage of models' ability to identify and score harmful content in order to trick the models into generating content related to malware, illegal activity, harassment and more. 'The...
'This year, superconductivity — the flow of electric current with zero resistance — was discovered in three distinct materials,' reports Quanta magazine. 'Two instances stretch the textbook understanding of the phenomenon. The third shreds it completely....' After four years...
One of my favorite trends in desktop PC design for the last couple of years has been what we call “The War on Cables,” wherein all the interior power and data cables are hidden on the backside of a case. It makes a desktop look oh-so-clean, and that’s great when PC...
As an ecological disaster devastated two coastal California cities, more than 7,500 firefighters pushed back against the wildfires. 900 of them are inmates, reports NPR. That's about 12%: California is one of more than a dozen states that operates conservation camps,...
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is always a massive event that sees dozens of laptops announced, but CES 2025 was especially notable. Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm all made significant hardware announcements, and those announcements meant every laptop maker had a...
Slashdot reader rzack writes: Since 1999, I've written a huge amount of PHP code, for dozens of applications and websites. Most of it has been continually updated, and remains active and in-production, in one form or another. Here's the thing. It's all hand-written using vi, ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York Times: Russia fined TikTok for not removing prohibited content. The results of a presidential election in Romania were thrown out over concerns the app had been used to spread foreign influence. Albania banned TikTok...
El Reg vultures circle the Consumer Electronics Show Kettle The annual Consumer Electronics Show was held this week in Las Vegas – and for us the extravaganza felt a bit subdued for a change.…
Panasonic makes a fiery return with one of the best TVs right now.
'Every Ford EV model set a new sales record in 2024 with double-digit growth,' reports Electrek, with Ford's total U.S. electric vehicle sales jumping to 97,865, an increase of 34.8% from 2023. And in the last three months of 2024 Ford sold 30,176 EVs — which is also a new re...
Tired of plain drinks and pour-overs? Turn your kitchen into a café with these barista-worthy machines.
Google is reintroducing 'digital fingerprinting' in five weeks, reports Mashable, describing it as 'a data collection process that ingests all of your online signals (from IP address to complex browser information) and pinpoints unique users or devices.' Or, to put it...
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Three exotic new species of superconductivity were spotted last year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup.
Unanimous AI's founder Louis Rosenberg predicts a 'wave' of new superhuman abilities is coming soon that we experience profoundly 'as self-embodied skills that we carry around with us throughout our lives'... '[B]y 2030, a majority of us will live our lives with...
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