Month: June 2024

Meta says European regulators are ruining its AI bot

Meta is putting plans for its AI assistant on hold in Europe after receiving objections from Ireland’s privacy regulator, the company announced on Friday.  In a blog post, Meta said the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) asked the company to delay training its large language models on content that had…

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Dell XPS 14 review: new, improved, and underwhelming

The 2022 Dell XPS 13 Plus showed up with a bold new design: a trackpad that blends seamlessly into the chassis, a perfectly flush “zero-lattice” chiclet keyboard, and a “capacitive touch function row.” Unfortunately, the new look was overshadowed by the fact that it ran too warm and had too…

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Race for biggest SSD heats up as Western Digital pips Solidigm’s 61.44TB monster, joins Samsung in announcing 64TB SSD for late 2024

Western Digital has emphasized the importance of high-capacity storage in the AI era, unveiling at Computex 2024 a comprehensive AI Data Cycle framework designed to optimize storage reduce the TCO for AI workflows. “Data is the fuel of AI. As AI technologies become embedded across virtually every industry sector, storage…

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Apple gives Apple Home users something they’ve been begging for

While Apple barely mentioned its smart home platform during its WWDC 2024 keynote this week, Apple Home users can still rejoice over an update discovered in the first iOS 18 beta: they’re getting the option to choose a “Preferred Home Hub.” This fixes the problem of your smart home “deciding”…

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Ex-employee of major South-East Asian IT firm jailed after he brings down its test servers — with scripts found on Google

An Indian national formerly employed in Singapore by the information technology (IT) services firm National Computer Systems (NCS) has been handed a custodial sentence for deleting all 180 of its test servers with scripts that he found on Google and then “perfected”. The story (via Tom’s Hardware) says Kandula Nagaraju,…

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Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition trophy list sighted online, suggesting the beloved game’s remaster is launching soon

The PlayStation trophy list for Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition has leaked online, suggesting the remaster of the beloved Gamecube, PS2, and OG Xbox classic could be materializing soon. Spotted by VGC, achievement tracking website Exophase currently has the trophy list for Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary…

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