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Wednesday October 9, 2024. 08:54 PM
The man identified as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto in a new HBO documentary has something to say: Wrong again, world. From a report: In the just-released HBO film on the history of the world's biggest digital currency -- Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery -- documentary ...
Three scientists won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work in predicting and designing protein structures, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm. David Baker of the University of Washington shares the prize with...
In a new 32-page filing (PDF), the Department of Justice indicated that it was considering a possible breakup of Google as an antitrust remedy for its search and advertising monopoly. The remedies necessary to 'prevent and restrain monopoly maintenance could include contract ...
Researchers at BitEnergy AI, Inc. have developed Linear-Complexity Multiplication (L-Mul), a technique that reduces AI model power consumption by up to 95% by replacing energy-intensive floating-point multiplications with simpler integer additions. This method promises...
A new HBO documentary claims Canadian developer Peter Todd is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous founder of bitcoin. The documentary's director, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Cullen Hoback, 'comes to the conclusion by stitching together old clues and new ones,' reports Politico....
Foxconn has chosen Mexico for the site of the world's largest manufacturing facility for Nvidia's GB200 superchips. These chips are a 'key component of the U.S. firm's next-generation Blackwell family computing platform,' notes Reuters. From the report: 'We're building the...
'Alleged photos and videos of an unannounced 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip continue to surface on social media, in what could be the worst product leak for Apple since an employee accidentally left an iPhone 4 prototype at a bar in California in 2010,' writes...
'Plasma is a popular desktop (and mobile) environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems,' writes longtime Slashdot reader jrepin. 'Among other things, it also powers the desktop mode of the Steam Deck gaming handheld. The KDE community today announced the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Months ago, 13-year-old Willis 'Blue Scuti' Gibson became the first person to 'beat' NES Tetris, crashing the game after a 1,511-line, 157-level performance. Over the weekend, 16-year-old Michael 'dogplayingtetris'...
X has been restored in Brazil after being shut down nationwide for over a month. According to court documents released today, X ultimately complied with all of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes' demands. 'They included blocking certain accounts from the...
Investment firm Hindenburg Research claims Roblox is 'consistently overstating the amount of people on its platform by 25 percent to 42 percent or more.' The Verge reports: Roblox, which went public in 2021, reported having 79.5 million daily active users in its most recent...
Tuesday October 8, 2024. 11:20 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: U.S. money transfer giant MoneyGram has confirmed that hackers stole its customers' personal information and transaction data during a cyberattack last month. The company said in a statement Monday that an unauthorized...
Fourteen years after it debuted on PS3 and Xbox 360, and endless rumors later, Red Dead Redemption is finally coming to PC. From a report: It will hit the Rockstar Store, Steam and the Epic Games Store on October 29 with the Undead Nightmare standalone expansion included....
The District of Columbia and 13 states sued social media giant TikTok on Tuesday, accusing the company of knowingly creating an addictive product and getting children hooked with 'digital nicotine.' From a report: D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb brought Washington's suit ...
Veteran Microsoft engineer Larry Osterman is the latest to throw his hat into the 'tabs versus spaces' ring. From a report: The debate has vexed engineers for decades -- is it best to indent code with tabs or spaces? Osterman, a four-decade veteran of Microsoft, was Team...
A long-shot congressional challenger in Virginia is so determined to debate the Democratic incumbent one more time that he created an AI chatbot to stand in for the candidate in case he's a no-show. From a report: Less than a month from election day, the race for Virginia's...
Samsung has issued a rare apology after saying it expected to post just $6.78 billion in operating profit for the most recent quarter, about $900 million short of analyst expectations. From a report: 'We have caused concerns about our fundamental technological...
A Nintendo Switch modder has entered a legal battle against Nintendo without legal representation, Torrent Freak reports. Ryan Daly, alleged owner of Modded Hardware, denied all allegations in a lawsuit filed by Nintendo in July. Nintendo claims Modded Hardware offers...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Wikipedia's 'Timeline of the Far Future' is one of my favorite webpages from the internet's pre-slop era. A Londoner named Nick Webb created it on the morning of December 22, 2010. 'Certain events in the future of the universe can be...
Wired: Last spring, At an event in New York City, Robert Triefus, then Gucci's CEO of Vault -- the brand's virtual marketplace -- argued the recent deflation in hype around the metaverse was just a brief hiccup. 'I see it more as a correction,' he told the crowd. 'We're now...
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