PARIS (AP) — A cyberattack on several blood banks tried to raise temperatures to extremely high levels but was thwarted before it could do any damage to blood products or samples, French authorities said. The incident comes after supermarkets in a number of European countries reported this week that theirContinue Reading
Artificial intelligence firms are on high alert for Election Day, taking a page out of social media firms’ playbook to manage the flurry of information expected online in the coming days. After a dramatic few months for the AI industry, companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are under pressure to ensureContinue Reading
Microsoft has filed a patent application for a new AI technology that can alter what people say during live broadcasts. The technology is designed to automatically identify what is being said and can remove or replace words, as well as adjust the speaker’s mouth movements to match the edited audio,Continue Reading
A major new release of Ghostty, the open-source terminal emulator, is out. Ghostty 1.4.0 brings a varied set of changes after seven months of development. There are welcome performance optimisations on Linux and macOS, a more capable SSH implementation and an easier way to rearrange tab splits – dragging them!Continue Reading
Google is switching off Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Search for K-12 student accounts by default. They stay off until a school admin turns them on, and each service can be manually enabled on its own. But Search is where things get awkward. As you already know, GoogleContinue Reading
Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, said it’s “quite terrible” that so much of the world’s limited DRAM sits in personal computers that use it maybe 5% of the time. In his view, it would do more work in a data center. My take? Idle RAM is the price of owningContinue Reading
Nvidia makes laptop CPUs now. That still feels weird to type! Over the past month, PCWorld has been hammering on several laptops powered by Nvidia’s new RTX Spark platform, including Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra, HP’s OmniBook Ultra, and the absolutely insane $7,000 Asus ProArt P16 I reviewed with 128GB of unified memory…Continue Reading
Infineon will invest around €1.1 billion by 2034 to establish high-volume manufacturing of gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors on 300 mm wafers at its site in Villach, Austria. The investment will go into Infineon’s existing cleanroom facilities in Villach. Production is scheduled to start by the end of 2027, andContinue Reading
Lithium-ion battery maker Flux Power has announced integrated gas detection for its airport ground support equipment (GSE) batteries, two new configurations of its S24 battery for material handling equipment and a new SkyVOX telematics device. The gas sensor continuously monitors conditions inside the battery and communicates directly with the batteryContinue Reading
BEIJING — Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi said on Sunday (Nov 1) it delivered more than 50,000 electric vehicles in October, the highest monthly total this year, as it ramps up production to meet its 2026 target. Deliveries reached about 336,000 vehicles for the first 10 months after topping 30,000 units in August and 40,000 inContinue Reading
Linux Mint’s next release will offer a hibernation mode, so you can close your laptop mid-session and not worry about returning to a drained battery. A new Sleep Modes page in the System Administration tool in Linux Mint 27, out this December, makes it easy to enable hibernation and ensureContinue Reading
Among a range of factors leading to a wave of tech sector layoffs in 2026 is the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and automation. Companies are reconfiguring their workforces to leverage AI for increased efficiency and reduced operating costs. This realignment and reduction is implemented even by companies reporting strongContinue Reading
Until now, Microsoft Excel has followed a strict structural rule: each cell on a worksheet can hold only a single scalar value. While you can string together text using commas or write dynamic array formulas to spill values across adjacent rows and columns, the cell itself remains a single-item container.Continue Reading