Month: January 2025
Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know he has a big AI data center, too
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to further the company’s AI ambitions. Part of the plan includes a Louisiana data center that Zuckerberg says “is so large it would cover a significant part of…
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Meta’s censoring of abortion information is nothing new
Earlier this week, several posts on the Instagram page of Aid Access, an abortion pill provider, were inaccessible to the public. Some images were blurred out, with no option to click through and view the post. Others appeared simply as a gray square with nondescript alt text, as if the…
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The Ram 1500 Rev’s 500-mile battery option is reportedly canceled
Stellantis is reportedly canceling the 500-mile range version of the upcoming Ram 1500 Rev, leaving the electric truck with only one option that maxes out at an estimated 350 miles on a single charge. The news comes from Mopar Insiders, which got hold of internal emails telling suppliers to stop…
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FBI claims North Korean workers are hacking the US companies which hired them
The FBI’s missive follows three previous ones in as many years Statement is aimed at educating businesses and warding off domestic collaborators Suggested remedies include employing endpoint protection on computer systems and checking applications for “typos and unusual nomenclature” The FBI has claimed North Korean IT workers are extorting US…
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QNAP says it has fixed several major vulnerabilities in NAS backup, recovery app
QNAP said it addressed six flaws in its Hybrid Backup Sync tool The flaws stemmed from rsync, an open-source file syncing tool Users are advised to update their HBS immediately QNAP has addressed half a dozen vulnerabilities affecting its Hybrid Backup Sync (HBS) software. In a security advisory, the company…
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AMD RX 9070 gets a rumored March 23 release date, but I’m not buying it (the date, that is, not the graphics card)
Pre-orders should go live for AMD’s RX 9070 GPUs on March 23, according to one US retailer There are a couple of reasons why this is likely wrong, though We’ve also seen more strangeness around the previously rumored January 23 launch for RDNA 4, as an ad campaign appears to…
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