Month: March 2024
DHS wants $101 million to upgrade its border surveillance towers
If the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) gets its way, Congress will grant it more than $107 billion to run its enforcement regime during the 2025 fiscal year. Buried in the lengthy budget request is $101 million to upgrade and maintain the network of surveillance towers scattered throughout the borderlands,…
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How Rivian Is Pulling Off Its $45,000 R2 Electric SUV
WIRED talks to CEO RJ Scaringe about how the automaker’s engineering team learned to say no—or make some compromises to create a smaller, more affordable electric car. Source
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30 years of the Dell Latitude – from impressive battery-powered productivity to AI PCs
For many decades, businesses in the US and across the world have been relying on specially-engineered business laptops that have boosted productivity immeasurably. One such model that’s been a staple for 30 years is the Dell Latitude family of enterprise laptops – starting with the Dell Latitude XP in 1994.…
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Samsung’s biggest memory rivals are plotting a tie-up with Kafkaesque implications — SK Hynix and Kioxia could build lucrative HBM chips for Nvidia, AMD and others
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix, a key Nvidia supplier, says it has already sold out of its entire 2024 production of stacked high-bandwidth memory DRAMs, crucial for AI processors in data centers. That’s a problem, given just how in demand HBM chips are right now. However, a solution might have…
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The Kate Middleton photo scandal is a rare — and consequential — flub
Kate Middleton’s botched photo editing job seen around the world is more than just catnip for tabloids and TikTok conspiracy theorists. It’s also the most instructive illustration of the AI-flecked new reality we live in, a maelstrom formed when distrust and established processes converge and create chaos. It’s hard to…
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Over 15,000 Roku accounts have been breached – here’s what you need to know
15,363 Roku accounts were compromised last year as bad actors gained access to a lot of sensitive data on the platform. Evidence suggests they obtained credit card information and attempted to make purchases. This news comes from a pair of filings Roku made on March 8 to the attorneys general’s…
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