Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and its offspring Microsoft Copilot were launched, critics have pointed out that both products — and all other generative AI tools — have been built using billions of dollars of stolen intellectual property. Training AI models requires vast amounts of written material, especially books, newspapers,Continue Reading
As a growing flood of off-lease EVs hits the market, and gas prices are at all-time highs, buyers are eager for used EVs—and prices have risen. A previously overlooked corner of the EV market is suddenly having its moment in the sun. But the new kid on the block is…used?Continue Reading
Materials company Toray has tested an inverter at 150° C using a prototype film capacitor made with a proprietary heat-resistant dielectric film. The film is designed to enable air-cooled power control units for electric vehicles and flying cars. The heat resistance of the film capacitors that stabilize power in invertersContinue Reading
Ken Masters actor Noah Centineo performs real-life Hell Wheel…Read MoreContinue Reading
“We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices.”, “We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices.”, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — German authorities opened an investigation into possible sexual harassment after a robot controlled by two young men touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl and made thrusting movements toward her, police said. Police in the western city of Cologne responded after the incident overnight Saturday toContinue Reading
Firefox 158 is now available to download, providing out-of-the-box support for JPEG XL images. JPEG XL is said to have better compression than other image formats, including WebP, PNG and regular ol’ JPEG. It supports wider colour gamut, HDR and high bit-depth, as well as animation, alpha channels and losslessContinue Reading
There’s growing talk of digital sovereignty as enterprises rethink past consolidation decisions made in the name of simplicity. Mozilla, developer of Firefox, argues that a “very specific, very important layer” has been mostly missing from that conversation: The browser. To that end, the company has unveiled Firefox Enterprise in aContinue Reading
Microsoft on Monday unveiled the Maia 300, its third-generation AI chip. According to Microsoft, the new chip will be optimized to handle the latest reasoning AI models and agents, which should result in lower operating costs. “We expect Maia 300 to deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt compared to leadingContinue Reading
Hyundai is rapidly expanding its electric vehicle lineup, with the Ioniq 7 SUV and a compact Ioniq 4 currently in development. The South Korean automaker is repurposing the Ioniq 7 name for a new mid-size electric SUV positioned between the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 9. It is expected to feature an 800-volt architecture with singleContinue Reading
A file manager is one of the most basic tools a Linux distribution comes with, and desktop environments ship their own, such as Nautilus on GNOME, Dolphin on KDE Plasma, and Nemo on Cinnamon. It is where people browse folders, move and rename files, preview what is inside them, andContinue Reading
For most of its life, Linux has been built around one simple assumption. There’s a box; it has CPUs, memory, and devices, and the kernel manages them. Clusters exist, of course, but they’ve mostly been a problem for the layers above the OS, i.e., schedulers, orchestrators, distributed frameworks. AI infrastructureContinue Reading
UNIX baggage and inconsistent distro choices make everyday file actions feel like a chore of templates and terminals…Read MoreContinue Reading