Technology

Elections have consequences — and big elections have big consequences. Few have been bigger than last week’s US midterms, featuring a Blue Tsunami that swept aside Republican control of Congress and signaled the end of Trumpenführerenführerism. Those consequences will especially be felt by Big Tech and Big AI. Voters madeContinue Reading

Adobe will open its Creative Cloud applications to third-party AI assistants, with the ability to edit content in Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, and Premiere from tools such as ChatGPT or Claude, the company announced at its Max event. The model context protocol (MCP) integration, due in private beta in earlyContinue Reading

Australian EV charging specialist GoEV has launched a transportable, battery-backed charging system. The ChargeNOW system combines a 640 kW DC fast charger, battery energy storage system (BESS) and electrical switchboard in a single 20-foot (6.1-meter) skid-mounted package. The system is designed to enable high-power charging at transport depots, logistics facilitiesContinue Reading

WeaveGrid, a grid orchestration software provider for electric utilities, has launched a managed charging program in partnership with North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives, an organization that supports the state’s 26 community-based electric cooperatives. The new program, EVConnectNC, allows members of participating cooperatives to earn incentives by charging their EVs during off-peakContinue Reading

Typing accented characters on Ubuntu isn’t as easy as it is on macOS (or modern smartphone keyboards), where you just have to a key to see available characters appear in a pop-over, and then pick one. Accent Hold is a GNOME Shell extension that adds macOS-style press-and-hold behaviour. Just pressContinue Reading

There’s a new flavor of cereal on the table, but not the appealing kind, particularly for defenders. A new report from global security company ESET describes a “sophisticated, modular, and tightly interconnected” toolset designed to run on compromised Exchange servers for long-term cyberespionage. The malware is named ‘Cereal’ because itContinue Reading

WASHINGTON (AP) — Extramarital affairs are usually private matters. Jensen Huang’s has global implications. The 63-year-old is the leading face of the artificial intelligence revolution with his black leather jackets and fluff of grey hair. He runs the company Nvidia, which produces highly coveted computer chips. That’s landed him onContinue Reading

Nvidia can sell some chips to China but is under security-related restrictions., Nvidia can sell some chips to China but is under security-related restrictions., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading

Mozilla has been experimenting a lot with Firefox lately, and a good chunk of that effort has gone into AI. The sidebar can house a chatbot of your choice, and Smart Window has an assistant that lets you pick the AI model. Luckily, they have stopped tunnel-visioning into AI, andContinue Reading