Month: March 2023
Someone obtained a whole-ass Pixel 7A before Google could even announce it
I can’t quite say it was inevitable, but — in some of the least surprising yet amusing tech news in the world — a Vietnam gadget enthusiast has managed to obtain a developer unit of the unannounced Pixel 7A smartphone. But I digress. Vietnam’s Zing News (via Droid Life) has…
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Everything to read after HBO’s The Last of Us season 1 finale
The first season of HBO’s The Last of Us is over — and there’s a lot to dig into. Between the show’s heavy themes, its long-controversial ending, the way it changed and adapted the game, as well as the games themselves, we’ve got plenty of different stories to read after…
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Attackers can reveal identities of those using the largest NFT marketplace, research finds
Audio player loading… OpenSea, arguably the world’s most popular marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFT) was carrying a vulnerability that allowed hackers to deanonymize users and possibly even reveal their full identities. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity researchers part of the Red Team at Imperva (opens in…
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Sorry Microsoft: not even a full-page ad will make people want to use Edge
Audio player loading… Microsoft seems to be getting more aggressive with its push to make users switch to its Edge browser. As reported by Neowin, after a browser update, Microsoft Edge prompts you with a full-page ad that states: “Welcome back, we have new things for you to explore.” And…
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Managing business cloud costs is more challenging than ever
Audio player loading… Enterprise cloud investments are on the rise despite growing anxieties about their cost, according to a survey from cloud optimization company Flexera. Its 2023 ‘State of the Cloud’ report (opens in new tab), published in March, notes that cutting cloud costs has overtaken security as the main…
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Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a ChatGPT supercomputer
To build the supercomputer that powers OpenAI’s projects, Microsoft says it linked together thousands of Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) on its Azure cloud computing platform. In turn, this allowed OpenAI to train increasingly powerful models and “unlocked the AI capabilities” of tools like ChatGPT and Bing. Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s…
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