Month: January 2025
Google’s Gemini AI app is getting faster with Flash 2.0
Google announced Thursday that the Gemini app is getting its Gemini 2.0 Flash AI model. The upgraded model “delivers fast responses and stronger performance across a number of key benchmarks, providing everyday help with tasks like brainstorming, learning or writing,” the company said in a post. The change is rolling…
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Meta warns that it will fire leakers in leaked memo
Moments after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s all-hands comments to employees were widely leaked, a company executive warned in an internal memo that leakers will be fired. “We take leaks seriously and will take action,” Meta’s chief information security officer, Guy Rosen, said in an internal memo I’ve seen. “When information…
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What’s Next in the DC Jet Crash Investigation
President Donald Trump blamed DEI efforts at the FAA for the tragedy. But experts and investigators say open minds are critical to finding out what really happened. Source
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Mark Zuckerberg to employees in leaked all-hands meeting: ‘buckle up’
Tensions were high inside Meta ahead of Mark Zuckerberg’s first all-hands meeting of the year. Employee-submitted questions for the CEO touched on a couple of big themes: concerns about his announcement that “low-performers” would be let go on February 10th, his MAGA-fueled changes to Meta’s content moderation policies and DEI…
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Chip race: Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Nvidia battle it out for AI chip supremacy
The popular benchmarking utility Geekbench has launched a new cross-platform tool to evaluate the performance of devices under AI-heavy workloads. Geekbench AI measures a device’s CPU, GPU, and NPU (neural processing unit) to determine how well it can handle machine learning applications. Geekbench developer Primate Labs has been working on…
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Largest desktop hard drive ever breaks another record; 28TB Seagate Expansion desktop hard drive has lowest Terabyte cost I’ve seen in 2025
STKP28000400 is a 28TB desktop hard drive from Seagate’s popular Expansion family It includes Seagate’s Data rescue service should the drive fail to work Despite its massive capacity, it still features the now-obsolete USB-A port Best Buy has listed the Seagate STKP28000400 desktop hard drive as part of its well-known…
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