Month: April 2024
AMD’s latest Ryzen Pro chips are bringing AI to your next business laptop
AMD has revealed two of its latest chips destined for the commercial PC market, hoping to bring enhanced AI capabilities to consumers. The new AMD Ryzen Pro 8040 Series mobile processors and AMD Ryzen Pro 8000 Series desktop processors promise all the latest AI connectivity features, which the California chipmaker…
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Will the Olympics Save Nike From Its Midlife Crisis?
Nike’s reputation—and sales—are both in trouble. The Paris games could be the aging brand’s chance to turn its fortunes around. Source
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The Morning After: Boston Dynamics’ bi-ped Atlas robot is going into retirement
Almost 11 years after Boston Dynamics revealed the Atlas humanoid robot, it’s finally being retired. The DARPA-funded robot was designed for search-and-rescue missions, but it rose to fame thanks to videos showing off its dance moves and—let’s be honest—rudimentary parkour skills. Atlas is trotting off into the sunset with one…
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DDoS attacks saw a huge surge in the first part of 2024, with one particular country badly hit
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks saw a significant increase during the first quarter of 2024, with one European country being particularly badly hit, new research has claimed. The DDoS threat report for 2024 Q1 from Cloudflare found the company’s automated defenses mitigated 4.5 million DDoS attacks in the first…
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What Jennifer Did is Netflix’s #1 movie – here are 3 high-rated true crime docs to watch next
There’s a new movie at the top of the Netflix charts, and it’s a controversial one. What Jennifer Did, a true crime documentary about a young woman who was convicted of hiring hitmen to kill her parents, has been accused of using AI-manipulated images in much the same way True…
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Owner of Grand Theft Auto to layoff hundreds and cut projects
Take-Two Interactive, the gaming company behind franchises like Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K, and Bioshock, has announced cost-cutting measures that will lay off “approximately five percent” of its global workforce and scrap several projects already in development. The company said in an SEC filing published on Tuesday that it is…
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