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Spotify is experiencing another major outage
A second gremlin is rolling through Spotify this evening. Source
Read MoreCan’t find the Chrome extension you want? I used Claude to make me two personalized ones — and they’re working flawlessly
One of the most notable ways AI is changing the world is through software coding: vast swathes of code are now written by AI, and while there’s still a debate over just how beneficial this shift is, there’s no doubt it’s happening at a large scale. Besides giving professional software…
Read MoreXbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc
An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. Xbox’s status page initially reported the outage on Sunday at about 11PM ET, and it has also prevented people from logging…
Read MoreAMD says the MI430X is the fastest FP64 GPU ever built, but you can’t buy one until 2027
AMD’s MI400 press release publishes exactly one performance figure 288 TFLOPS of hardware FP64 on the MI430X, a GPU it positions as its go-to for sovereign AI and HPC Unlike the MI455X, which it launched alongside, the MI430X will have researchers and sovereign AI clients waiting longer, with AMD targeting…
Read MoreNanoleaf’s colorful pegboard and shelf kit is half off
Nanoleaf’s Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit is a fun back-to-school buy that can add pops of customizable light and storage to your wall. It combines colorful smart lighting panels with a low-profile shelf and pegboard, and right now you can buy the kit for half off at $99.99 from Nanoleaf,…
Read MoreI tried to test China’s newest ChatGPT rival but couldn’t get in — and it exposed the next big problem facing the major AI players
China’s latest ChatGPT rival, Kimi, is now available for download on the Apple App Store, so I downloaded it on my iPhone, intending to test it against ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. I had the prompts ready; I had the comparison planned. Then Kimi presented me with a very modern problem…
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