The headline story is that Nvidia has essentially killed off the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti from the market. Asus, the largest Nvidia AIB partner, explicitly told us this model is currently facing a supply shortage and, as a result, has been placed into end of life status…Continue Reading
AI can be useful. But so many people seem to feel it’s nothing more than an unpaid intern you can lean on to do all the work you don’t feel like doing yourself. (And the less said about its misuse to generate a webful of slop, the better.) Like everyoneContinue Reading
EV charging provider EVgo has committed to a massive deployment of EV charging sites at Kroger Family of Stores locations across the US. The company plans to build at least 150 fast charging stalls per year through 2035 at the company’s sites, which operate under various brands, including Kroger Foods,Continue Reading
Chinese battery swapping technology firm U Power has entered a strategic partnership agreement with Whale Logistics in Thailand through its U SWAP subsidiary to promote the deployment of commercial battery-swapping electric trucks in Thailand. Whale Logistics is an integrated logistics service provider offering warehousing, yard operations and end-to-end logistics solutions.Continue Reading
Fedora 42 Unveiled: COSMIC desktop, revamped installer, and Apple Silicon support steal the show. The Fedora Project has officially released Fedora 42, bringing a host of exciting updates and new features to its diverse line up of “spins”, including Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, Fedora Server, Fedora IoT, FedoraContinue Reading
Belgium’s KU Leuven University’s researchers revealed a disturbing Bluetooth vulnerability called ‘WhisperPair’ affecting hundreds of millions of wireless headphones, earbuds, and speakers that are using Google’s Fast Pair protocol. Attackers within 46 feet or 14 meters can take over devices in seconds to eavesdrop on conversations using mics, blast audio,Continue Reading
The mother of one of Elon Musk’s children is suing his AI company, saying its Grok chatbot allowed users to generate sexually exploitive deepfake images of her that have caused her humiliation and emotional distress. Ashley St. Clair, 27, who describes herself as a writer and political strategist, alleges inContinue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide the constitutionality of broad search warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users to find people near crime scenes. The case involves what is a known as a “geofence warrant” that was served on Google in a police huntContinue Reading
Newer kernel, newer Cinnamon, new tools, and even new icons The timing is right if you’re looking to try out Mint. New improved “Zena” is here – still based on Ubuntu Noble, but now with Cinnamon 6.6 and improved Wayland support, plus better internationalization, new System Information and System AdministrationContinue Reading
That went well Imagine changing your popular brand to capitalize on an emerging tech trend that never emerged. Mark Zuckerberg did just that, and now Meta is backing away from the virtual reality business in which it invested billions.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Gold phone more like fool’s gold as none show up six months later Senator Elizabeth Warren is leading calls for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate The Traitor Mobile for failing to ship gold phones, months after collecting deposits.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Microsoft’s .NET 10 has been available in the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS repos since December, installable directly using Apt. This week, the 10.0.1 servicing update landed with important fixes to runtime, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core issues. Ubuntu users gained easier access to .NET (pronounced as dot net, packaged asContinue Reading
Corporations don’t have feelings. And yet, they want others to think they do—and that we’re being too rough on them. Twice this past week, major tech companies appealed to empathy. One bid bubbled up in a Wccftech interview with Micron, when the memory producer was asked if it and other suppliers were abandoning consumers…Continue Reading