Month: April 2025
Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons
Crosswalk buttons in at least three California cities appear to have been hacked this weekend to give them the seemingly AI-generated voices of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In videos posted online, the apparent voice of Musk begs listeners to be his friend, or that of…
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‘Catastrophic overtraining’ could harm large language AI models that are trained on more data for the sake of training
Researchers from top US universities warn extending pre-training can be detrimental to performance Too much pre-training can deliver worse performance due to something akin to the butterfly effect The more they are pre-trained, the more they become sensitive to small changes that could disrupt the end result Researchers from Carnegie…
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Smartphone tariffs are coming back in ‘a month or two,’ says Trump admin
Smartphones, laptops, and other products that are exempt from Trump’s April 9th tariffs will be lumped in with duties on semiconductors in “a month or two,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl on This Week. Yesterday, the Trump administration released updated guidance that excluded smartphones, laptops,…
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How the Switch 2 compares to the ROG Ally
The Nintendo Switch 2 has entered the ring, possibly complicating your decision of which handheld to buy this year. While Nintendo’s new console, which comes out on June 5th, may seem similar to handheld gaming PCs like the Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally, there’s a lot that sets them…
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Microsoft is digging its own grave with Windows 11, and it has to stop
Look, Microsoft, we need to talk. It’s no secret that you’ve been nagging me (and everyone else) to upgrade to Windows 11 for a while now, with everything from ads to in-OS reminders pushing me towards the settings menu to check if my PC is eligible for an upgrade. But…
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12 Best Laptops of 2025, Tested and Reviewed
These are our favorite Windows laptops, MacBooks, Chromebooks, and Linux portables. Source
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