Month: August 2025
Brave or foolhardy? Huawei takes the fight to Nvidia CUDA by making its Ascend AI GPU software open source
Huawei makes its CANN AI GPU toolkit open source to challenge Nvidia’s proprietary CUDA platform CUDA’s near 20-year dominance has locked developers into Nvidia’s hardware ecosystem exclusively CANN provides multi-layer programming interfaces for AI applications on Huawei’s Ascend AI GPUs Huawei has announced plans to make its CANN software toolkit…
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iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public beta: Everything you need to know about the new Apple updates
Liquid Glass is a huge new change coming to iOS 26. (Apple) In just over a month, we’ll finally get to download the official iOS 26 on our iPhones. Available now is the iOS 26 developer beta 6 (for developers only), and the public beta which you can download and…
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MacBook screens can be broken with a simple greeting card, viral TikTok video warns – and Apple has explained the reason why
A TikTok user damaged their MacBook display in an unexpected way The issue was caused by a piece of card placed under the lid Even something as innocuous as this can break a laptop screen For many MacBook owners, it’s a nightmare come true: you open the lid of your…
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4 things we learned from OpenAI’s GPT-5 Reddit AMA
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and several other researchers and engineers came to Reddit the day after debuting the powerful new GPT-5 AI model for the time-honored tradition of an Ask Me Anything thread. Though the discussion ranged over all kinds of technical and product elements, there were a few topics…
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Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now remember your past conversations
On Monday, Anthropic released a hotly anticipated memory function for its Claude chatbot. In a YouTube video, the company demonstrated a user asking what they had been chatting about with Claude before their vacation. Claude searches past chats to read and summarize them for the user, then asks if they’d…
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Fake TikTok shops found spreading malware to unsuspecting victims – here’s how to stay safe
Fraudulent TikTok Shops driving victims into fake portals designed to steal cryptocurrency and data Scammers mimic trusted seller profiles and lure shoppers with unrealistic discounts across popular platforms SparkKitty malware secretly collects sensitive data from devices, enabling long-term unauthorized surveillance and control Cybercriminals are now making use of TikTok Shops…
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