Screwdrivers: is there anything they can't do badly? Maybe not (2024/06/03) Who, Me? We're starting to wonder if any of you know what those things are actually for
STMicro bags €2B from Europe for Sicily car chip fab (2024/06/03) Eurocrats made them an offer they couldn't refuse
Researchers warn robot cars can be crashed with tinfoil and paint daubed on cardboard (2024/06/03) Use Baidu's platform to show how the fusion of Lidar, radar, and cameras can be fooled by stuff from your kids' craft box
Stable Diffusion 3 to debut on June 12 (2024/06/03) Computex CTO likes what he sees, but craves more memory and compute
We're the Ryzen force in CPUs for AI PCs: AMD (2024/06/03) Computex Arm, schmarm: new 50TOPS NPUs that talk Block FP16 really make AI sing, says CEO Lisa Su
VMware by Broadcom has a licensing portability win with Microsoft (2024/06/03) If only customers could find their keys after support portal migration
AMD reveals the MI325X, a 288GB AI accelerator built to battle Nvidia's H200 (2024/06/03) Computex House of Zen hopes to catch its AI rival by moving to a yearly release cadence
China lands probe Chang'e-6 on the far side of the Moon (2024/06/03) ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: Singapore intros AI safety tools; Satya Nadella fined by Indian gov; China stops influencers flaunting bling
DARPA awards in-orbit manufacturing contract to Momentus (2024/06/02) In the not too distant future agency wants to found factories in the sky
Twitter 'supersharers' of fake news tend to be older Republican women (2024/06/01) Tiny percentage of users make X miss the spot
Do you really need that GPU or NPU for your AI apps? (2024/06/01) Kettle And how do we feel about Palantir selling its ML-based targeting system to the entire US military? Tune in!
Twitch ditches Safety Advisory Council, relaunches with vetted 'ambassadors' (2024/06/01) Who needs experts when you have an army of hand-picked super users telling you what you want to hear?
The Canon Cat – remembering the computer that tried to banish mice (2024/06/01) Feature Refurbishing the next machine to come from the original inventor of the Mac
Snowflake denies miscreants melted its security to steal data from top customers (2024/05/31) Updated Infosec house claims Ticketmaster, Santander hit via cloud storage
US senator claims UnitedHealth's CEO, board appointed 'unqualified' CISO (2024/05/31) Similar cases have resulted in serious sanctions, and they were on a far smaller scale
TikTok said to be working on US-specific version of its content algorithm for months (2024/05/31) Owner ByteDance may be hedging its bets on overturning sale-or-ban bill
Cyber cops plead for info on elusive Emotet mastermind (2024/05/31) Follows arrests and takedowns of recent days
Google finally addresses those bizarre AI search results (2024/05/31) Suggesting people eat rocks or put glue on pizza? Yeah, that's some artificial intelligence right there
Windows Subsystem for Linux gets enterprise friendly and plans a settings interface (2024/05/31) Scared of editing a config file? There'll soon be a GUI for that