Technology

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s watchdog is refusing a bipartisan request to investigate recent disruptions to Starlink and Starshield satellite internet service to Ukraine, raising concerns among lawmakers that the military and even its independent inspector general are reluctant to confront the influence that SpaceX chief Elon Musk has overContinue Reading

Google parent company Alphabet Inc. came up short of Wall Street expectations despite strong revenue growth in its third-quarter results, which sent its stock falling in after-hours trading Wednesday. The Mountain View, California-based company said its net income was $26.17 billion in the July-September period. That’s down from $34.98 billionContinue 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

Switches based on the wide band-gap semiconductors SiC (silicon carbide) and GaN (gallium nitride) have been gaining market share on their conventional silicon counterparts over the last decade or so because they deliver lower total losses at higher switching frequencies and power levels, all at an increasingly competitive price. SiCContinue Reading

EV Realty sites its heavy-duty EV charging hubs where the fleet customers are. Heavy-duty EVs have different charging requirements than passenger EVs. As electric truck guru Rustam Kocher explains in our recent interview, a charging hub purpose-built for heavy-duty EVs differs from a consumer charging hub in several ways. ButContinue Reading

Ubuntu is planning a new linux-firmware-hwe package, in an effort to reduce the risk of firmware updates for newer kernels causing problems for users running older ones. On Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) releases, you can stick with the standard (GA) kernel it was released with for the duration of itsContinue Reading

A new study from the Coalition for Language Equity in AI Research shows that AI models require significantly more tokens to process certain languages than others. These differences mean that users of underrepresented languages risk paying more for the same services, reports Rest of World. An LLM’s tokenizer breaks textContinue Reading

Apple’s second day of launches this week saw it follow its tempting iPad mini upgrade by pumping up the processor in two of its most popular Macs, even while it injected artificial intelligence into Creator Studio. 24 hours of portable pro performance: 14-in MacBook Pro Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro is popular butContinue Reading