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Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Creativeye99) A federal appeals court today reversed a ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring Internet service providers to sell $15 broadband...
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Microsoft rolls out KB5036908 for Windows 11 24H2, as the update is closer to...
Microsoft is rolling out Windows 11 KB5036908 for version 24H2 with April 2024 Patch Tuesday security fixes. This is an important release for two reasons: it again confirms Build 26100 is the RTM...
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Nintendo Switch 2 will likely be larger than its predecessor and feature...
Sources have provided details to the Spanish gaming blog Vandal regarding the size and controller connectivity of the Nintendo Switch 2. While rumors should always be taken with a grain of salt, Vandal...
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Ubuntu 24.04 is out with big updates, including Intel QuickAssist support making it much easier to accelerate crypto and compression The post Ubuntu 24.04 Server Big Updates Including Intel...
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There’s never been a better time to get into Fallout 76
Enlarge / More players have been emerging from this vault lately than have in years. (credit: Samuel Axon) War never changes, but Fallout 76 sure has. The online game that launched to a negative...
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Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal—and why it won’t go back
Enlarge / Jürgen Trittin, member of the German Bundestag and former environment minister, stands next to an activist during an action of the environmental organization Greenpeace in front of the...
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Gigabyte and MSI also provide BIOS settings to address Intel crashing CPUs
Gigabyte’s latest beta BIOS, announced on Friday, provides a new Intel Baseline feature on its Z790 and B760 series motherboards. According to the announcement, the new beta BIOS is designed to provide...
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Anti-Piracy Veteran Tim Kuik Retires After Leading BREIN for a Quarter Century
In the summer of 2009, hackers from all over the world gathered at an outdoor conference near Vierhouten in the Netherlands. The event was mostly a meetup of like-minded geeks, but one person stood...
View ArticleProxmox VE 8.2 Is Out with New Updates
Proxmox VE 8.2 is out with several updates, virtual machine importers, automated installations, and a bugfix for an issue we have seen The post Proxmox VE 8.2 Is Out with New Updates appeared first on...
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US investigators link Tesla Autopilot to dozens of deaths and almost 1,000...
A newly published report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) links Tesla’s Autopilot systems to nearly 1,000 crashes from the last few years, over two dozen of them fatal....
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This genius tool ensures flawless thermal paste application every time
This “idiot-proof” tool is basically a big stencil that fits right over your CPU socket. Rather than applying paste directly to the CPU, you smear it across the stencil’s surface. The stencil has a...
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Who is Prabhakar Raghavan and why is he accused of killing Google Search?
A study earlier this year by German academics verified what many users of Google search had long suspected: the search engine, once the gold standard for such activities, had been getting worse. The...
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Microsoft’s Phi-3 Mini boasts ChatGPT-level performance in an ultralight 3.8B...
Weighing in at just 3.8 billion parameters, Phi-3 Mini is the first of three compact new AI models Microsoft has in the works. It may be small, but Microsoft claims this little overachiever can punch...
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DARPA unleashes 20-foot autonomous robo-tank with glowing green eyes
For those not in the know, DARPA has been working on self-driving military vehicles for two decades now as part of its RACER (Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency) program. The goal...
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Swimming and spinning aquatic spiders use slick survival strategies
Enlarge / Of all the aquatic spiders, the diving bell spider is the only one known to survive almost entirely underwater, using bubbles of air it brings down from the surface. (credit: Oxford...
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Intel has a wafer-level assembly problem, and it’s hurting Core Ultra sales
Intel faces a challenge. Its ramp-up of Core Ultra, led by Meteor Lake, continues to accelerate beyond its original expectations, with units projected to double sequentially in the second quarter....
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Microsoft confirms issues in Windows 11 KB5036980, which added Start menu ads
Most people do not care about optional Windows updates, but that’s not the case with Windows 11 KB5036980, which became a hot topic after we first spotted ads in the Start menu. Some people who...
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Chinese chipmaker Loongson’s new 3B6600 and 3B7000 chips narrow performance...
Loongson Vice President Zhang Ge revealed that the company has made huge strides in single-core performance through its R&D efforts. While admitting that its chips lag mainstream offerings in...
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The Chips Act is rebuilding US semiconductor manufacturing, so far resulting...
Last week President Biden visited Syracuse, NY, to do something government officials typically do: tout a massive investment in the local economy. But this was not just any investment – it was $6.1...
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FTC distributes $5.6 million in refunds to Ring customers from privacy...
The settlement stems from charges that Ring failed to properly safeguard video footage from its popular doorbell cameras and indoor security cams. According to the FTC’s complaint, Ring employees and...
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