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London hospitals declare emergency following ransomware attack
Enlarge A ransomware attack that crippled a London-based medical testing and diagnostics provider has led several major hospitals in the city to declare a critical incident emergency and cancel...
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Ex-OpenAI staff call for “right to warn” about AI risks without retaliation
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, a group of former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employees published an open letter calling for AI companies to commit to principles allowing employees to raise...
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Windows Copilot will eventually be able to run on RTX GPUs
Developers creating Windows apps that leverage generative AI will soon gain access to an API for running GPU-accelerated small language models through the Windows Copilot Runtime. The collaboration...
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The Hubble Space Telescope has lost a majority of its gyroscopes
Enlarge / Hubble Space Telescope above Earth, photographed during STS-125, Servicing Mission 4, May 2009. (credit: NASA) The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is running out of gyroscopes, and when...
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Flawed, scandalous trials tank FDA expert support for MDMA therapy
Enlarge / MDMA pills up close. (credit: Getty | Universal History Archive) After a remarkably sensational regulatory drug review, advisors for the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday voted...
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Micron starts sampling GDDR7 memory for next generation GPUs
A few months after JEDEC announced the final specifications of the GDDR7 memory standard, Micron has begun sampling its first GDDR7 chips to industry partners. According to the company, the new memory...
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Microsoft is auto-installing new Sticky Notes on Windows 11, Windows 10
Microsoft recently announced a new full-fledged non-UWP Sticky Notes that would be integrated with the OneNote app for Microsoft 365. The new app is now rolling out to everyone. Sticky Notes is a...
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Raspberry Pi 5 gets a $70 AI add-on kit
The M.2 HAT+ serves as the communications bridge between the AI module and the PI using the PCIe interface, and comes with a thermal pad fitted between the two to improve heat dissipation. The kit also...
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Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech
Enlarge / Oral-B released the Guide in 2020, making promises of Alexa-powered convenience, which it ended in 2022. (credit: P&G) As we’re currently seeing with AI, when a new technology becomes...
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XPG’s upcoming handheld gaming PC features eye-tracked foveated rendering and...
Adata showcased the XPG Nia at Computex this year, one of a few handheld gaming PCs with demo stands at the event. Unlike Asus, MSI, and Zotec competitors, Adata’s machine tries to conserve precious...
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Top news app caught sharing “entirely false” AI-generated news
Enlarge (credit: gmast3r | iStock / Getty Images Plus) After the most downloaded local news app in the US, NewsBreak, shared an AI-generated story about a fake New Jersey shooting last Christmas Eve,...
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T-Mobile hopes you’ll buy $30 “Home Internet Backup” for when cable goes out
Enlarge / T-Mobile logo exhibited during Mobile World Congress on February 28, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto /) T-Mobile is hoping that home Internet customers who suffer...
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Russian agents deploy AI-produced Tom Cruise narrator to tar Summer Olympics
Enlarge / A visual from the fake documentary “Olympics Has Fallen” produced by Russia-affiliated influence actor Storm-1679. (credit: Microsoft) Last year, a feature-length documentary purportedly...
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Sony is reportedly sitting on a finished PC port of The Last of Us Part 2
Established leaker Billbil-kun from Dealbreakers reports that Sony finished production on a PC port for The Last of Us Part 2 late last year. The company hasn’t mentioned a PC conversion of the game,...
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Vaccines don’t cause autism, but the lie won’t die. In fact, it’s getting worse.
Enlarge / An MMR and VAR vaccine ready for a pediatric vaccination at Kaiser Permanente East Medical offices in Denver in 2015. (credit: Getty | Joe Amon) For years, the US Centers for Disease Control...
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YouTube Processed a Billion Content ID Copyright Claims in Six Months
YouTube is the most watched streaming platform in the world. The endless library of videos, uploaded by both amateurs and professionals, is simply unrivaled. The site’s popularity translates into hard...
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Nvidia’s desktop GPU dominance grows to 88% as market returns to normal
Desktop GPU sales data from Jon Peddie Research for the first quarter of 2024 indicates that the market has stabilized after the shocks of the last few years. Although quarter-to-quarter shipments...
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You can inherit a dead relative’s GOG account—if you have a court order
Enlarge / At least my son will be able to use my copy of Fallout: New Vegas to distract him from mourning… (credit: Getty Images) A few weeks ago, we called some attention to the legal difficulty of...
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Tripping the light fantastic: Light paintings help illuminate air pollution...
Enlarge / Light painting reveals a cloud of particulars on Airport Road, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PM2.5 10-20 micrograms per cubic meter). (credit: Robin Price) Light painting is a technique used in...
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Meta uses “dark patterns” to thwart AI opt-outs in EU, complaint says
Enlarge (credit: Boris Zhitkov | Moment) The European Center for Digital Rights, known as Noyb, has filed complaints in 11 European countries to halt Meta’s plan to start training vague new AI...
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