Month: July 2025
xAI explains the Grok Nazi meltdown as Tesla puts Elon’s bot in its cars
Several days after temporarily shutting down the Grok AI bot that was producing antisemitic posts and praising Hitler in response to user prompts, Elon Musk’s AI company tried to explain why that happened. In a series of posts on X, it said that “…we discovered the root cause was an…
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NYT Wordle today — answer and my hints for game #1485, Sunday, July 13
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Wordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here. It’s time for your guide…
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What a claim! This KVM docking station switch can handle two 8K monitors – yes, you heard it right, that’s 66 million pixels (or 32 Full HD displays)
AV Access KVM docking station promises 8K gaming performance on a dual-monitor, dual-computer switch dock Eleven ports aim to consolidate your mess of hubs, docks, and splitters into one device 100 watts of charging power puts this dock in serious workstation territory, not just convenience In a market crowded with…
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Grok team apologizes for the chatbot’s ‘horrific behavior’ and blames ‘MechaHitler’ on a bad update
The team behind Grok has issued a rare apology and explanation of what went wrong after X’s chatbot began spewing antisemitic and pro-Nazi rhetoric earlier this week, at one point even calling itself “MechaHitler.” In a statement posted on Grok’s X account late Friday night, the xAI team said “we…
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Want a quad-socket server with 768 cores? Sure, Intel’s 192-core Diamond Rapids Xeon CPU will deliver that in 2026 — but I wonder whether it will be too little, too late
Intel plans to launch its next-generation Xeon platform, codenamed Oak Stream, in 2026, which will include Diamond Rapids, a CPU built for servers and high-performance workloads. Diamond Rapids will use Intel’s 18A process and Panther Cove cores, the same architecture coming to future consumer chips. The top model includes four…
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LPDDR6 likely to debut in 2026 as JEDEC publishes new standard document and targets mobile devices and AI – desktop PCs and workstations will have to wait
LPDDR6 standard finalized for mobile and AI first deployments Memory brings faster speed better efficiency and added security features Desktop systems expected to follow mobile and embedded device rollouts The next generation of low-power memory is on its way. LPDDR6, recently announced by the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, is…
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