NJ teen wins fight to put nudify app users in prison, impose fines up to $30K
When Francesca Mani was 14 years old, boys at her New Jersey high school used nudify apps to target her and other girls. At the time, adults did not seem to take the harassment seriously, telling her...
View ArticleEU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social...
European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against X, including a fine that could exceed $1 billion, according to a New York Times report yesterday. The European Commission determined...
View ArticleTrump’s tariffs send shockwaves through the video game industry
The video game sector must brace for impact following the announcement of Trump’s new tariffs earlier this week. According to Aubrey Quinn, senior vice president of the ESA, these tariffs will...
View ArticleNot just Switch 2: ESA warns Trump’s tariffs will hurt the entire game industry
This morning’s announcement that Nintendo is delaying US preorders for the Switch 2 immediately increased the salience of President Trump’s proposed wide-reaching import tariffs for millions of...
View ArticleMicrosoft turns 50 today, and it made me think about MS-DOS 5.0
On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The two men had worked together before, as members of the Lakeside Programming group in...
View ArticleNSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?
A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their operations poses a threat to critical infrastructure and national security, the National...
View ArticleJudge calls out OpenAI’s “straw man” argument in New York Times copyright suit
After The New York Times sued OpenAI in December 2023—alleging that ChatGPT outputs violate copyrights by regurgitating news articles—the ChatGPT maker tried and failed to argue that the claims were...
View ArticleWith new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military’s top launch provider
The US Space Force announced Friday it selected SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, and Blue Origin for $13.7 billion in contracts to deliver the Pentagon’s most critical military to orbit into the early...
View ArticleWhy One DIMM Per Channel or 1DPC Can Be Great for AMD EPYC 4004
We show why you might prefer one DIMM per channel configuration using an AMD EPYC 4004 series server and 192GB of DDR5 ECC UDIMMs The post Why One DIMM Per Channel or 1DPC Can Be Great for AMD EPYC...
View ArticleFrench Court Orders Cloudflare to ‘Dynamically’ Block MotoGP Streaming Piracy
The frontline of online piracy liability keeps moving, and core internet infrastructure providers are increasingly finding themselves in the crosshairs. In a significant ruling last week, the Paris...
View ArticleEditorial: Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation
The start-up Colossal Biosciences aims to use gene-editing technology to bring back the woolly mammoth and other extinct species. Recently, the company achieved major milestones: last year, they...
View ArticleDustland Delivery plays like a funny, tough, post-apocalyptic Oregon Trail
Road trips with just two people always have their awkward silences. In Dustland Delivery, my character, a sharpshooter, has tried to break the ice with the blacksmith he hired a few towns back, with...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Copilot gains ability to autonomously complete web tasks on your...
Copilot Actions uses simple chat prompts to allow you to offload things like booking travel arrangements, ordering flowers, and even scheduling a ride after an event through existing online services....
View ArticleNvidia RTX 5060 Ti launch rumored for April 16, pre-built desktops appear...
A tipster on Board Channels claims that Nvidia plans to launch the RTX 5060 Ti on April 16, aligning with prior rumors indicating a mid-April debut. The 8 GB and 16 GB variants might carry the same...
View ArticleNew research shows your AI chatbot might be lying to you – convincingly
That’s the unsettling takeaway from a new study by Anthropic, the makers of the Claude AI model. They decided to test whether reasoning models tell the truth about how they reach their answers or if...
View ArticleTrump delays TikTok ban another 75 days after China stalls divestment deal...
President Trump recently signed an executive order to extend the delay on TikTok’s US ban for another few months as negotiations to sell the Chinese-owned social network to American investors continue....
View ArticleAfter ads, Microsoft Copilot on Android is testing “MSN feed” to make some money
AI isn’t profitable yet, and it’s one of the reasons why the experts in the industry often compare it to the Dot-com bubble. OpenAI makes money by selling subscriptions to users like you, me, and...
View ArticleNVIDIA GB300 NVLink Switch Tray at NVIDIA GTC 2025
At NVIDIA GTC 2025 we saw the new NVIDIA GB300 NVLink Switch tray open and on display, including its custom liquid-cooling solution The post NVIDIA GB300 NVLink Switch Tray at NVIDIA GTC 2025 appeared...
View ArticleNvidia RTX 5090 graphics card power cable melts at both ends, bulge spotted...
The latest case, reported by a Redditor called Roachard, involved an MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC. He bought the card from Best Buy about a month ago for just over $3,000 and paired it with a Corsair...
View ArticleHonda to test compact hydrogen system for space exploration on the ISS
Honda is aiming beyond Earth with plans to test its high-differential pressure water electrolysis system aboard the International Space Station. In partnership with Sierra Space and Tec-Masters, the...
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