Author: Zach_Wilson
I am so looking forward to get rid of my slow USB 3.2 portable SSDs thanks to these faster USB 4 models
Corsair Memory and others show off USB 4 portable SSDs at CES 2025 USB 4 is as fast as Thunderbolt 3/4 and twice as fast as USB 3.2 Gen2x2 It allows for far more demanding storage requirements like 8K RAW storage Working with a slow SSD can be highly frustrating…
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The Biden White House says TikTok’s threat to go dark is a ‘stunt’
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called TikTok’s threat to “go dark” tomorrow a “stunt,” and said there is no reason that TikTok or any other companies should take any actions under the ban before the Trump administration is sworn in Monday morning, several news outlets are reporting. “It is…
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HPE may have been beaten Supermicro and Dell to win a $1bn AI contract, but it’s not for the Colossus supercomputer
Bloomberg reports the contact is for Elon Musk’s X social media platform xAi’s Colossus uses 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPU and doesn’t seem to be part of the contract Supermicro has had troubles, but is still a major player in AI hardware The rising demand for computing power to support AI…
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EV startup Canoo has filed for bankruptcy
Canoo announced yesterday it is ceasing operations “immediately” and that it has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Delaware. The EV startup estimates in its filing that its assets are worth $126 million and that it owes over $164 million to its creditors, TechCrunch noted yesterday. Now, the US will…
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Racing against time on a menacing caldera: survey finds majority of organizations take days to tackle critical vulnerabilities, each of them a potential open goal for cybercriminals
Survey finds nearly 70% of orgs leave critical vulnerabilities unresolved for 24 hours or more Managing vulnerability fog is a major challenge, as AI promises to make it easier for criminals to identify targets Zero-day and unpatched legacy vulnerabilities remain a major cause of cybercriminal proliferation Over two-thirds (68%) of…
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Instagram Reels can be 3 minutes long now
Instagram will now let you upload Reels that are up to 3 minutes long, doubling the 90-second limit the platform had in place before, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri announced today. He credits today’s change to users’ feedback saying that the 90 seconds “is just too short.” That’s a big turnaround…
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