Month: October 2024
First AMD EPYC 9965 benchmarks are in; Turin server CPU sets flurry of new world records across wide range of software, but will that be enough to stop Xeon and Arm’s forthcoming onslaught?
Intel recently launched its 128-core “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6900P processor family, finally offering some true competition to AMD’s EPYC 9004 Genoa/Bergamo server line. The first reviews praised Intel’s new chips, with the overall consensus being that the 6900P range successfully heralded Intel’s long-awaited resurgence in the server CPU arena. While…
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News Corp sues Perplexity for ripping off WSJ and New York Post
News Corp, the parent company of media outlets like The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, is suing the AI search engine Perplexity for infringing copyrighted content. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, News Corp alleges Perplexity copies news articles, analyses, and opinions “on a massive scale.” Perplexity…
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‘I woke up and had the whole idea in my head’: returning to Area X with Jeff VanderMeer
After a decade away, Jeff VanderMeer is heading back into Area X. In 2014, the author released all three parts of the Southern Reach trilogy over the span of just a few months, and the series became a breakout hit; the first was even adapted into a Hollywood film from…
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The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are majorly popular, which is exciting and frightening in equal measure
The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have grown on me. I liked them a fair bit when I first reviewed them, but the addition of the Meta AI – which has now rolled out beyond the US officially – has made them easily the best AI wearable out there, and one…
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Forget 4K Blu-ray for Alien: Romulus – get it on VHS instead, physical media fans
One of the things I really love about Alien and its sequels is their distinctly low-tech take on high technology: this was a universe of interstellar travel, cryogenic freezing and other wonders run on 1970s computer tech with big clacky buttons and green-hued CRT displays, a design decision that was…
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US Treasury claims to have won back billions of dollars lost to fraud using AI
The US Treasury has announced machine learning AI is being used as part of its fraud detection process, helping it save a record amount of money for the department. Through this, the department claims to have recovered over $4 billion in improper payments, and $1 billion of that is said…
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