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Friday June 7, 2024. 05:30 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: In a blow to publishers and authors, Costco plans to stop selling books regularly at stores around the United States, four publishing executives who had been informed of the warehouse retailer's plans said on...
The long and largely unsuccessful effort to turn IBM's x86 server business into consistent profit continues Lenovo has announced the departure of Kirk Skaugen, the head of its Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) – the enterprise tech arm of the Chinese hardware giant.…
Online marketplace behemoth eBay said it plans to no longer accept American Express, citing what the company says are 'unacceptably high fees.' CNBC: It's a notable blow to American Express, whose customers are often the most attractive among merchants and spend the most...
Longtime Slashdot reader MattSparkes shares a report from NewScientist: Quantum computing experts are baffled by the UK government's new export restrictions on the exotic devices (source paywalled), saying they make little sense. [The UK government has set limits on the...
You upgraded when this was fixed in April, right? Right?? If you haven't yet upgraded to version 1.3.0 of Apache HugeGraph, now's a good time because at least two proof-of-concept exploits for a CVSS 9.8-rated remote command execution bug in the open-source graph database...
A new discovery that the AI-enabled feature’s historical data can be accessed even by hackers without administrator privileges only contributes to the growing sense that the feature is a “dumpster fire.”
GOG, a Poland-based popular gaming platform, has announced plans to enforce a 200MB limit on cloud save files per game. This move may adversely affect players of open-world titles like Cyberpunk 2077, where save folders can reach several gigabytes. A report adds: The company ...
Some artists are jumping ship for the anti-AI portfolio app Cara after Meta began using Instagram content to train its AI models. Fast Company explains: The portfolio app bills itself as a platform that protects artists' images from being used to train AI, and only allowing...
Adobe is facing backlash over new Terms of Service language amid its embrace of generative AI in products like Photoshop and customer experience software. The ToS, sent to Creative Cloud Suite users, doesn't mention AI explicitly but includes a reference to machine learning...
In an interview with PCWorld's Mark Hachman, Google's ChromeOS chief said the company is cautiously exploring a Recall-like feature for Chromebooks, dubbed 'memory.' Microsoft's AI-powered Recall feature for Windows 11 was unveiled at the company's Build 2024 conference last ...
Thursday June 6, 2024. 11:55 PM
Knowing your supplier is always good – and super lab's auditors promise to check for conflicts of interest OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Helion to get access to the startup's not-yet-possible nuclear fusion-driven electricity generators.…
City known for blues, BBQ, and now possibly the 'world's largest supercomputer' xAI plans to build the 'world's largest supercomputer' in Memphis, Tennessee according to the city's local government.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: The FBI urges past victims of LockBit ransomware attacks to come forward after revealing that it has obtained over 7,000 LockBit decryption keys that they can use to recover encrypted data for free. FBI Cyber...
A few years after touting the Oral-B Guide’s Alexa integration, the company has yanked the app you need to connect to it.
There's also an off switch The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo search engine has introduced AI Chat, an optional, free chatbot service – within limits – that provides a choice of models and 'can be easily switched off.'…
When buying a new smartphone, it's important to consider the duration of software updates, as it impacts security and longevity. In a rare public commitment on Monday, thanks to the UK's new Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) regulations, Apple...
Oracle, Nvidia accused of working with ByteDance, others to provide access to advanced parts within America Chinese companies blocked from getting their hands on cutting-edge AI chips have reportedly been buying access to sanctioned hardware on US soil to avoid raising...
Susan Rice, who helped the White House broker an AI safety agreement with OpenAI and other tech companies, says she's worried China will steal American AI secrets.
Intel’s fastest processors have included hyperthreading, a technique that lets more than one thread run on a single CPU core, for over 20 years — and it’s used by AMD (which calls it “simultaneous multi-threading”) as well. But you won’t see a little “HT” on the Intel...
Fans have noticed that, over the last few months, Sony quietly removed any mention of 8K on the PlayStation 5 boxes. 'I have been endlessly bitching since the PS5 released about that 8k Badge,' writes X user @DeathlyPrice. 'It is false Advertising and Sony should be sued for ...
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