Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crack World War Fee Tech companies have started suing the US government to seek repayment of tariffs that the Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional.…
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Lees meerWhat hath science wrought? A clump of living human brain cells wired into a silicon chip has answered the internet's most important computing question: yes, it can run Doom.…
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Lees meer'There's a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall' Brits are worried that AI will dehumanize public services, leading to less human contact and oversight as well as job losses, according to people questioned by pollster Ipsos.…
Lees meerRemembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus It is 60 years since humanity first got up close and personal with another planet, with the impact of the Soviet Union's Venera 3.…
Lees meerIt's the end of the world as we know it, and AI feels fine Anthropic economists Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory report that AI is not eliminating as many jobs as experts have predicted. …
Lees meerMeta supposidly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by Nvidia OpenAI and compute partner Oracle have reportedly abandoned a planned expansion of their flagship Stargate datacenter, after negotiations were stalled by financing and Sam Altm…
Lees meerUS unemployment ticked up to 4.4% The US economy shed 92,000 jobs in February, a dramatic downturn from analyst expectations that it would add about 50,000 jobs. The shortfall stoked growing fears that AI could be contributing to higher unemployment…
Lees meerNow if only device makers would deliver higher quality components Thanks to Anthropic's AI and its bug-detecting abilities, Firefox users can now enjoy stronger security. Unfortunately, if browser crashes rather than security flaws are the problem, …
Lees meerSteals SMS messages, location data, contacts … and delivers it to Hamas-linked crew Hamas-linked attackers are dropping spyware disguised as an emergency-alert app on Israelis' smartphones via SMS messages, according to security researchers.…
Lees meerIts aim is wide, covering everything from social networks to GenAI Norway's Forbrukerrådet consumer council is taking aim at the creeping enshittification of modern life in a 100-page report – and a splendid four-minute video which we highly recomme…
Lees meerSwitchzilla says flaws could allow file overwrites or privilege escalation Just when network admins thought the Cisco SD-WAN patch queue might finally be shrinking, Switchzilla has confirmed miscreants are exploiting more vulnerabilities in its SD-W…
Lees meerBad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSS Many web sites, social media services, and other platforms require age verification on the theory that it will protect kids from seeing inappropriate content. But now some US states want to re…
Lees meerIts aim is wide, covering everything from social networks to GenAI Norway's Forbrukerrådet consumer council is taking aim at the creeping enshittification of modern life in a 100-page report – and a splendid four-minute video which we highly recomme…
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