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Crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried spared a second trial
US prosecutors do not plan to proceed with a second trial of convicted and imprisoned crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), according to a Southern District of New York court letter filed on December 29.…
While you holidayed, Microsoft brought Copilot to mobile devices, again
First Look While many readers enjoyed holiday downtime, Microsoft was busy bringing its Copilot AI to Android and iOS.…
Huawei bets its 2024 on datacenter infrastructure
Huawei chair Hu Houkun has prepared the Chinese tech giant for 2024 by suggesting its datacenter offerings are the key to success in the new year.…
A ship carrying 800 tonnes of Li-Ion batteries caught fire. What could possibly go wrong?
The US Coast Guard has advised that a ship carrying around 800 tonnes of Lithium-Ion batteries – some of which caught fire – is out of danger after its crew handled the situation admirably.…
People power made payroll support in putrid places prodigiously perilous
On Call: Dirt File All good things must end, even the holidays - and with them On Call’s Dirt File, a special festive edition of our reader-contributed tech support trauma tales dedicated to the filthiest places techies have been asked to toil.…
How do you teach a robot dog new tricks? Throw it a string of hex, a crayon, and a canvas
Boston Dynamics' "Spot" robot dog has been deployed as a tour guide, a police officer, and a warehouse worker. At the National Gallery Of Victoria's Triennial in Melbourne, Australia, it's now doing duty as an artist.…
Scientists mull Solar Radiation Management – a potential climate-change stop-gap
In-depth At the American Geophysical Union annual meeting (AGU23) in San Francisco the other week, the 25,000-plus science folks in attendance pretty much all agreed on one unequivocal fact: the Earth is warming and it's warming quickly. Discussions centered not on "if" — that's been settled — but on how to best measure that rise, how to best model it, and what best to do about it.…