Author: Zach_Wilson
Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls
Linus Sebastian’s Linus Media Group YouTube empire is currently in crisis, with accusations of theft, lapses in ethics, and most recently, allegations of sexual harassment. The company has currently paused all production to improve its review processes, and CEO Terren Tong tells The Verge an outside investigator will be hired…
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AMD’s unannounced 96-core monster just crushed Intel’s best CPU to claim world record
Test results of the soon-to-be released Ryzen ThreadRipper PRO 7995WX “Zen 4” have emerged on the popular Geekbench benchmark and it turns out to be a staggeringly fast processor that should be able to beat almost everything (except perhaps AMD’s very own 128-core EPYC server CPU) and will find its…
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The Associated Press sets AI guidelines for journalists
The Associated Press released guidelines around generative AI to its journalists as it and other news organizations look at ways to use the technology in news gathering. AP vice president for standards and inclusion Amanda Barrett said in a blog post the publication does not see AI “as a replacement…
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Special counsel obtained ‘some volume’ of DMs from Donald Trump’s Twitter account
Among many other things, the warrant sought the former president’s tweets (including drafts), likes, retweets, and any direct messages “sent from, received by, stored in draft form in, or otherwise associated with” his account, @realDonaldTrump. Twitter engineers were able to provide what Twitter lawyer George Varghese previously called “confidential communications”…
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The OnePlus Open launch could be as soon as next month
The OnePlus Open is now expected to launch in September, according to a new report. Alongside the Open, parent company Oppo is rumored to be launching the OnePlus Find N3 Flip in China. Starting with the OnePlus Open, the report comes from Yogesh Brar and follows earlier reports that the…
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NYC bans TikTok on city-owned devices
New York City is banning TikTok from city-owned devices and requiring agencies to remove the app within the next 30 days. The directive issued Wednesday comes after a review by the NYC Cyber Command which a city official said found that TikTok “posed a security threat to the city’s technical…
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