Month: June 2024
Neva hands-on: A grand achievement in emotional game design
Neva is going to make me cry. It very nearly did at Summer Game Fest, as the game’s introductory cinematics faded to black, literally just one minute into my time with the demo. I won’t divulge what happens in those initial frames, but it shattered my heart. It also perfectly…
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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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