Month: August 2024
CrowdStrike hires outside help to track down cause of global outages as it reveals first findings
As CrowdStrike and its enterprise customers recover from the recent outage catastrophe, and it already being public knowledge that a pushed update caused the problem, the company has hired two security firms to look further into the issue. The external code review was announced in a root causes analysis (PDF),…
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Will PC makers replace your crashing Intel chip? We asked 14 of them
There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake desktop processors. If your chip isn’t yet damaged, please apply motherboard BIOS updates early and often to prevent issues. If it’s already damaged, your only option is to exchange it. But what if you didn’t buy a…
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ByteDance hits play on AI video creator while Sora seems paused
TikTok videomakers may soon be adding AI-generated content to their dance routines. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has debuted a new text-to-video mobile app exclusively to the Chinese market called Jimeng AI. Though geographically limited for now, Jimeng might become a serious rival to other AI video makers, particularly OpenAI‘s Sora.…
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Fortnite will bring battle pass rewards back around
Epic Games is making a major change to Fortnite’s battle passes that should remove some angst if you can’t buy or complete a pass before the end of a season. Fortnite’s battle passes offer a bunch of exclusive in-game rewards that you can only obtain during an individual season, but…
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PaleoScan is a cheap imaging device democratizing fossil research
An innovative scanner created by an NYU computer scientist is allowing scientists to digitize previously isolated fossils in remote South American regions. Claudio Silva’s PaleoScan provides a portable and affordable way to preserve and share collections of ancient impressions that may have otherwise been lost or smuggled. Brazil’s Araripe Basin…
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Sorry, Figure AI, but your robot won’t be cool until it can walk like a human
Figure 02 is, for the moment, half an exciting robot, and you need only look as far as the new announcement video to understand why. The video starts off promisingly enough. Figure AI’s Figure 02 robot, a redesign of the original Figure 01, looks more human than ever. It has a smooth…
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