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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged Germany’s makers of cars and industrial machines to quickly adopt artificial intelligence to “re-engineer” the country’s struggling business model by tapping its wealth of manufacturing data and expertise. Huang, whose company designs the powerful computer chips and software used by companiesContinue Reading

Prosecutors have not said what Alfozan might have wanted to do with the recordings, but say he was in “frequent communication” with a member of the Saudi royal family., Prosecutors have not said what Alfozan might have wanted to do with the recordings, but say he was in “frequent communication”Continue Reading

NordVPN is updating its Linux app to offer a “cleaner, simpler way to manage VPN connections” from the command line. The NordVPN 6.0 update, which is coming soon and not yet out, “cuts down” the amount of commands which “overlap”. The company say this will make it easier for usersContinue Reading

It’s all relative, but if you want to scope out the likely shape of the tech device industry in five years’ time, you have to think of the likely shape of the replacement cycle, and right now it seems to be shifting toward Apple.  That’s going to become more importantContinue Reading

Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 AI models have been used to write the new Cutefish Desktop for CutefishOS, a distro that was in the news a few years ago. Reion Wong, the creator and developer of CutefishOS, who also runs the project’s X account, announced the desktop, showing itContinue Reading

Last week, we saw a wave of developers determined to reverse engineer everything with AI. This week, there’s a new wave, and to be honest, I like this one better. Some people have found an unusual way of using AI for something that actually matters to them. They are makingContinue Reading

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Spyware from an Israeli company was used to target the phone of the rector of the Belgrade university who has played a prominent role in nearly two years of protests against Serbia ‘s populist leader Aleksandar Vucic, a digital rights group said on Monday. The BalkanContinue Reading

Matt Robb wanted to sell his computer keyboard. So he made a listing on Facebook Marketplace — and, as an experiment late last month, he put Meta’s new artificial intelligence agent Muse in the driver’s seat. “I kind of went into it like a guinea pig,” said Robb, a Toronto-basedContinue Reading

December’s Linux Mint 27 release will include a brand new system monitor tool preinstalled. The app is called Superlight (well, that’s the project and package name; the user-facing label is just System Monitor). It shows hardware, app and process usage, relays battery stats and has an interactive storage page toContinue Reading

In olden days — last year, say — employees using unsanctioned AI tools might copy-and-paste sensitive data that could end up in the AI company’s training data set. Today, an unsanctioned AI can hack into another company for an employee even if they didn’t explicitly ask it to. This doesn’tContinue Reading