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Man posing as teen YouTuber gets 17 years for horrific global sextortion scheme
Enlarge (credit: Artur Debat | Moment) Content warning: The following story describes instances of animal abuse. An Australian man who pretended to be a famous teenaged YouTuber has been sentenced to...
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Sick of heavy electric SUVs and crossovers? Ariel debuts the E-Nomad.
Enlarge / There’s a reason the Ariel Nomad works so well in open-world games like Forza Horizon. Now Ariel has developed an electric version. (credit: Ariel) The low-volume British carmaker Ariel got...
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company can’t get Tesla FSD to work in tunnels
Enlarge / Human driver will continue to be a job at the Boring Company Las Vegas Loop for the foreseeable future. (credit: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Image) Autonomous driving capabilities are a...
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This YouTube video can help flush water out of your smartphone
Consumers are increasingly turning to YouTube videos that claim to be able to remove water from your device using sound. The idea works much like the water eject feature on the Apple Watch. The YouTube...
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New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On Tuesday, researchers from Google and Tel Aviv University unveiled GameNGen, a new AI model that can interactively simulate the classic 1993...
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A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project
Enlarge / Does Mono fit between the Chilean cab sav and Argentinian malbec, or is it more of an orange, maybe? (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has donated the Mono Project, an open-source framework...
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Astronomers make highest-resolution observations ever from Earth’s surface
Researchers working with the Event Horizon Telescope program have tested a new method to observe deep space objects, particularly supermassive black holes. By using only a subset of the observatories...
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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs. Ryzen 7 7700X: 45 Game Benchmark
Today we’ll show you how to boost the gaming performance of your Ryzen CPU by 10% with one simple trick. Sounds too good to be true, right? But somehow, this actually works. Read Entire Article
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Unitree’s $16,000 G1 could become the first mainstream humanoid robot
For years, Unitree has been offering robots that perform similarly to models from companies like Boston Dynamics – except at significantly lower prices. One example is the Unitree Go2, a Boston...
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Sparks are flying day and night as SpaceX preps Starship pad to catch a rocket
Pretty much every day for the last couple of weeks, workers wielding welding guns and torches have climbed onto SpaceX’s Starship launch pad in South Texas to make last-minute upgrades ahead of the...
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Fmovies Piracy Ring Was Shut Down by Vietnam, Assisted By ACE
Pirate sites tend to come and go but in recent months, significant shutdowns have been more frequent than usual. Fmovies is one of the most prominent casualties. Founded in 2016, the pirate streaming...
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A RISC-V “PC” can now run a choppy rendition of The Witcher 3
Developers working on the Box86 and Box64 emulation projects want to run “triple-A” PC games on the RISC-V architecture. They started with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the award-winning action CD Projekt...
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California legislature passes controversial “kill switch” AI safety bill
Enlarge / California governor Gavin Newsom will likely soon face a decision on whether to sign SB-1047. (credit: Ray Chavez/The Mercury News via Getty Images) A controversial bill aimed at enforcing...
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Backpage founder Michael Lacey gets 5 years in prison for money laundering
Enlarge / Backpage founder Michael Lacey testifying at a US Senate hearing in January 2017. (credit: US Senate hearing) Backpage founder Michael Lacey was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison...
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Infosys under fire for keeping 2,000 job candidates in limbo for years
The allegations, filed with the Ministry of Labour and Employment in a letter by the labor group Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES), paint an unsavory picture. Written by group...
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Microsoft Edge’s new feature will “most aggressively” limit RAM on Windows 11
A few months back, Windows Latest covered Microsoft’s plan to include a RAM usage adjustment option in the Edge browser. Back then, it offered a slider to adjust the RAM usage limit for the browser....
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Yelp accuses Google of antitrust violations in fresh lawsuit
Earlier this month, the US Department of Justice officially declared Google an unlawful monopoly in internet search, accusing the company of exploiting its market dominance to maintain an edge over...
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Windows 10 KB5041582 out with multiple fixes (direct download .msu)
Microsoft’s August 2024 optional update for Windows 10 is available now. Unlike the previous optional updates, this one contains no new features and only adds fixes for a few problems. Optional...
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Latest MSI BIOS adds “TDP to 105W” mode for AMD Ryzen 9700X and 9600X
TDP is short for thermal design power, and relates to the maximum amount of heat generated by a chip that its cooling system is capable of dissipating. Both of AMD’s new, entry-level Zen 5-based chips...
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Broadcom is working to integrate optical connectivity directly into GPUs
Broadcom is developing new silicon photonics technology aimed at significantly increasing the bandwidth available to GPUs and other AI accelerators. By utilizing co-packaged optics (CPOs), the fabless...
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