Month: June 2024
Car dealerships hit with massive computer system outage
CDK Global, the company that provides management software for nearly 15,000 car dealerships in North America, is down for a second day following a cyberattack, according to a report from Automotive News. The outage has left car dealerships across North America unable to access the internal systems used to track…
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WD drops NAND memory bombshell with massive 2Tb flash chips — designed to meet data center needs, they could bring about the new era of 100TB SSDs
At a webcast for investors titled “New Era of NAND”, Western Digital revealed the world’s highest capacity memory die, the BiCS8 2Tb QCL. Created in partnership with Kioxia (the two companies are responsible for producing about a third of global bit output in the NAND industry, WD said), it uses…
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Anthropic’s newest Claude chatbot beats OpenAI’s GPT-4o in some benchmarks
Anthropic rolled out its newest AI language model on Thursday, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The updated chatbot outperforms the company’s previous top-tier model, Claude 3 Opus, while working at twice the speed. Claude users (including those on free accounts) can check it out beginning today. Sonnet, which tends to be Anthropic’s…
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T-Mobile denies it was hacked, despite hacker claiming to have leaked company data
Popular data leaker IntelBroker is selling a database allegedly belonging to the telecommunications giant T-Mobile, but the company has denied this is the case. In a new post published on a dark web forum, IntelBroker said they were selling “Source code, SQL files, Images, Terraform data, t-mobile.com certifications, Siloprograms.” They…
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Annoying Windows 11 bug that distorted videos playing in Chrome or Edge browsers has finally been squashed
Perhaps one of the most annoying bugs in Windows 11 has finally been addressed and fixed by Microsoft in the latest update for the OS. The glitch in question caused visual distortions in videos in Chromium-based browsers for some Windows 11 users, including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera. The…
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Google’s Manifest V3 will make the fight against third-party adblockers even worse
After years of delays, Google is finally rolling out its Manifest V3 Chrome extension framework, encouraging extension developers to make the switch as it begins to drop support for Manifest V2 on Chrome Beta, Dev, and Canary channels. Google has even been sending emails to users informing them when an…
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