Новости за 11.04.2024

'A strategy of half-promises and unnecessarily complicated hedges'

The right to repair movement just scored a major win with Apple's announcement that it plans to begin supporting iPhone repairs with used parts this fall. …

But for how much longer?

Intel's Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra CPUs will power Huawei's newest MateBook X Pro, the company's first AI PC.…

We sat though these conferences so you didn't have to

Kettle  This week kicked off with two conferences, Intel Vision and Google Cloud Next, that as you can imagine had artificial intelligence at the heart of them.…

But don't expect them to compete with human pros anytime soon

Large language models (LLMs) can now be put to the test in the retro arcade video game Street Fighter III, and so far it seems some are better than others.…

Not that $110M will go very far, mind

The Japanese and US governments have announced new academic AI partnerships that are getting a $110 million cash infusion from Nvidia, Microsoft, and a group of Japanese firms.…

TSMC turns advanced packaging production knob to 11

Dell lead times for computers with GPUs like Nvidia's H100 have come down to eight to 12 weeks, a significant reduction from nearly 40 weeks late last year.…

Could have been worse – last time researchers checked it was 98.6%

Hospitals – despite being places where people implicitly expect to have their personal details kept private – frequently use tracking technologies on their websites to share user information with Google, Meta, data brokers, and other third parties, according to research published today.…

Complainants smack back after hardware giant moves to dismiss lawsuit

HP "sought to take advantage of customers' sunk costs," printer owners claimed this week in a class action lawsuit against the hardware giant.…

Computing giant will appeal ruling, which found infringement was not 'wilful'

And rePalm may yet bring real PalmOS to new hardware … even the Raspberry Pi

Agreement on consent and compensation has failed to materialize

UK lawmakers have slammed the government for its lack of action in protecting copyright holders against the infringement of their intellectual property by developers of artificial intelligence technologies.…

£75 million in the offing in government tender

The Post Office, the UK government-owned retail organization for post and banking, has kicked off procurement to help build the system replacing Horizon, the disastrous EPOS and back office system at the heart of one of the country's greatest miscarriages of justice.…

High-profile individuals including MPs said to be caught up in leak

Exclusive  Taxi software biz iCabbi recently fixed an issue that exposed the personal information of nearly 300,000 individuals via an unprotected database.…

Hydrotreated vegetable oil to power bit barns stateside after successful Euro trial

Web titan rejects criticisms, insists AI-found compounds are legit

AI on its own may not be as useful for discovering new materials as Google's DeepMind team has suggested.…

Staff followed US lead and shared answers after move to online testing

Oh great – another potential kink in the silicon supply chain

Samsung Electronics has struck trouble at home, potentially threatening the supply of semiconductors and smartphones.…

Adds Hawaii stopover for another planned link

Google announced on Wednesday it will invest $1 billion in two submarine cables to create new routes between the US and Japan.…

Cryptic Biden hint came ahead of April 16 deadline for next step in extradition case

Australian drivers given two days' notice, UK and New Zealand services also shuttered

With a pilot as backup of course: VENOM is still emerging tech

The US Air Force is rapidly scaling up its plans to automate some of its fleet and the civilian boss of the service says he's planning to fly in one of the robo-planes this northern spring.…