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Wednesday April 9, 2025. 04:31 AM
Hackers intercepted about 103 bank regulators' emails for more than a year, gaining access to highly sensitive financial information, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter and a draft letter to Congress. From the report: The attackers...
We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future Interview The founder of an AI startup who attempted to use an artificially generated avatar to argue his case in court has been scolded by a judge for the stunt.…
New submitter toutankh writes: The UK government is developing a tool to predict murder. The scheme was originally called the 'homicide prediction project', but its name has been changed to 'sharing data to improve risk assessment'. The Ministry of Justice hopes the project...
Microsoft has scrapped plans to build three data center campuses in Licking County, Ohio, in a $1 billion investment pullback, the company said. The canceled developments in New Albany, Heath, and Hebron join a growing list of Microsoft data center project cancellations...
A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so low Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday has arrived, and Microsoft has revealed one flaw in its products under active exploitation and 11 critical issues in its code to fix.…
Razer's upcoming Blade 16 and other laptops are no longer available for preorder or purchase on its US site. From a report: The configurator for preordering its new Blade 16 laptop was available as recently as April 1st, according to the Internet Archive -- one day before...
What did we learn today, hm? TSMC could end up paying $1 billion or more to settle a US investigation into whether the Taiwanese outfit busted sanctions, inadvertently or not, by indirectly manufacturing AI accelerators for Huawei.…
Tuesday April 8, 2025. 11:09 PM
It might be smart to upgrade your hardware now if it’s on its last legs. We've vetted these deals to ensure you’re getting a real discount.
Built by 2028? Maybe. Powering homes? That’s another slip of paper entirely Canadian nuclear regulators have approved an Ontario company's request to build a single small modular reactor (SMR) – the first such license issued in the country.…
Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.
Did Facebook giant rizz up LLM to win over human voters? It appears so Meta submitted a specially crafted, non-public variant of its Llama 4 AI model to an online benchmark that may have unfairly boosted its leaderboard position over rivals.…
President Trump’s tariffs don’t hit streamers like Netflix directly. But they could impact what streaming services release—and how much people are willing to pay for it.
'Loss of safe separation between aircraft, collision, or runway incursion' is not what we want to hear Boeing issued a software safety patch for the VHF radio systems used on its 787 aircraft, and the update turned out to be ineffective, Qatar Airways has complained.…
What a MIME field A bug in WhatsApp for Windows can be exploited to execute malicious code by anyone crafty enough to persuade a user to open a rigged attachment - and, to be fair, it doesn't take much craft to pull that off.…
A 125 percent tariff on imports from China will likely see rising prices on smartphones and laptops in the coming months.
Children in a small Japanese town are obsessively collecting trading cards featuring local elderly men rather than popular fantasy creatures, helping bridge generational gaps in an aging rural community. In Kawara, Fukuoka Prefecture, the 'Ojisan TCG' (Middle-aged Man...
China is moving fast to dominate biotechnology, and the U.S. risks falling behind permanently unless it takes action over the next three years, a congressional commission said. WSJ: Congress should invest at least $15 billion to support biotech research over the next five...
70 years old, yes. Obsolete? Not by a long shot Comment There is something about Elon Musk's career trajectory that compels onlookers to hang around for the seemingly inevitable crash landing. Tesla, SpaceX, and X – formerly known as Twitter – have all become hosts to...
Disconnected device scenarios cause headaches for Microsoft Microsoft is extending support for a product scheduled for deprecation. Sadly for some, it's not Windows 10.…
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is changing his company's approach to hiring in the age of AI. Employees will be expected to prove why they 'cannot get what they want done using AI' before asking for more headcount and resources, Lutke wrote in a memo to staffers that he posted to X. ...
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