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Intel fuels Huawei's AI PC ambitions with Meteor Lake CPUs in MateBook X Pro
Intel's Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra CPUs will power Huawei's newest MateBook X Pro, the company's first AI PC.…
Next Vision, or Vision Next? What we really thought about Google and Intel's AI events
Kettle This week kicked off with two conferences, Intel Vision and Google Cloud Next, that as you can imagine had artificial intelligence at the heart of them.…
ChatGPT-3.5, Claude 3 kick pixelated butt in Street Fighter III tournament for LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) can now be put to the test in the retro arcade video game Street Fighter III, and so far it seems some are better than others.…
US, Japan announce joint AI research projects funded by Nvidia, Microsoft, and others
The Japanese and US governments have announced new academic AI partnerships that are getting a $110 million cash infusion from Nvidia, Microsoft, and a group of Japanese firms.…
Dell shaves months off lead times for GPU-powered AI servers
Dell lead times for computers with GPUs like Nvidia's H100 have come down to eight to 12 weeks, a significant reduction from nearly 40 weeks late last year.…
96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers
Hospitals – despite being places where people implicitly expect to have their personal details kept private – frequently use tracking technologies on their websites to share user information with Google, Meta, data brokers, and other third parties, according to research published today.…
We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners
HP "sought to take advantage of customers' sunk costs," printer owners claimed this week in a class action lawsuit against the hardware giant.…
AWS must pay $525M to cloud storage patent holder, says jury
Amazon Web Services has been ordered by a jury to pay $525 million for infringing distributed data storage patents in a case brought by a technology outfit called Kove IO.…
PumpkinOS carves out a FOSS PalmOS-compatible runtime environment
PumpkinOS is a somewhat usable runtime environment that can run some Palm apps on top of Windows or Linux, without using or needing real PalmOS.…
MPs ask: Why is it so freakin' hard to get AI giants to pay copyright holders?
UK lawmakers have slammed the government for its lack of action in protecting copyright holders against the infringement of their intellectual property by developers of artificial intelligence technologies.…
Fancy building a replacement for Post Office's disastrous Horizon system?
The Post Office, the UK government-owned retail organization for post and banking, has kicked off procurement to help build the system replacing Horizon, the disastrous EPOS and back office system at the heart of one of the country's greatest miscarriages of justice.…
Global taxi software vendor exposes details of nearly 300K across UK and Ireland
Exclusive Taxi software biz iCabbi recently fixed an issue that exposed the personal information of nearly 300,000 individuals via an unprotected database.…
Digital Realty ditches diesel for salad dressing in US to cut datacenter emissions
Datacenter operator Digital Realty is replacing diesel with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) at sites in the US in a bid to reduce carbon dioxide emissions following a successful trial in Europe.…
Boffins deem Google DeepMind's material discoveries rather shallow
AI on its own may not be as useful for discovering new materials as Google's DeepMind team has suggested.…
Netherlands arm of KPMG fined $25M for cheating in exams
KPMG Accountants NV, the Netherlands-based arm of the global professional services firm, has been fined $25 million (€23 million, £20 million) by that nation's Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) for failing to prevent its financial auditors from cheating on exams.…
Samsung strikes trouble as unions threaten walkouts, regulator swoops
Samsung Electronics has struck trouble at home, potentially threatening the supply of semiconductors and smartphones.…
Google plunks down $1 billion for extra Japan-US submarine cable
Google announced on Wednesday it will invest $1 billion in two submarine cables to create new routes between the US and Japan.…
US ‘considering’ end to Assange prosecution bid
The Biden Administration is considering Australia’s request to end its bid to prosecute WikiLeaker-in-Chief Julian Assange, an Australian citizen.…
India's Uber clone Ola Cabs hails ride out of the international market
Indian ride-sharing outfit Ola Cabs is shuttering operations in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK as the company shifts focus to its domestic business.…
US Air Force Secretary so confident in AI-controlled F-16s, he'll fly in one
The US Air Force is rapidly scaling up its plans to automate some of its fleet and the civilian boss of the service says he's planning to fly in one of the robo-planes this northern spring.…