Author: Zach_Wilson
Learner driver data exposed in worrying breach – thousands affected
A major Brazilian driving school appears to have exposed the sensitive information of up to 400,000 individuals after failing to properly secure a cloud database. Researchers from Cybernews claim to have found an unprotected Google Cloud Storage bucket containing information about Brazilian Learner’s Driving permits – Licença De Aprendizagem De…
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Kids with Android phones will be able to use Google Wallet tap-to-pay soon
Kids will soon be able to download the Google Wallet app on their Android phone, allowing them to buy things in store via Google’s tap-to-pay feature, reports 9to5Google. The news comes after Google first added the feature to its kid-focused Fitbit Ace LTE fitness tracker in August. In a statement…
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The mysterious AI image generator that topped benchmarks is now available – here’s how to try it
A mysterious AI image generator known as Red Panda shot up the ranks of the Artificial Analysis Image Arena this week, cementing itself at the top of the charts. While we had no idea who developed Red Panda, or even what, exactly, it was, we now know who makes one…
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Call of Duty’s massive filesize drives peak internet usage
Comcast is boasting about what it’s calling its “biggest week in internet history,” which it pegs on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 downloads and Thursday Night Football streams. The company says the Call of Duty game, which it released on October 25th, was responsible for a whopping 19 percent…
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The Daft Punk anime Interstella 5555 is coming to theaters for one night only
The Daft Punk anime Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem is coming to movie theaters on December 12, for one night only. It’ll be screened in over 800 cinemas in more than 40 countries throughout the globe. Tickets go on sale November 13, so bookmark this page…
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This laser technology could save the planet and help AI industry claw back more than $100 billion — half of GPUs are ‘wasted’ because of limited bandwidth, and this US startup wants to change that
Bandwidth limitations have become a significant bottleneck in AI and high-performance computing (HPC), as GPUs are underutilized due to bandwidth constraints, with nearly half of their computational power going to waste. Nvidia is not expected to release optical interconnects for its NVLink protocol until the “Rubin Ultra” GPU compute engine…
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