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Nvidia-backed startup uses Intel chip to replace electrical signals with light to reach Tbps speeds – here is what it looks like in the flesh

Ayar Labs has demonstrated an innovative technology that plugs directly into chip packages and uses light to transmit data – reaching blistering transfer speeds. The firm paired its TeraPHY optical I/O chiplet with a SuperNova multi-wavelength light source, and they bundled this with an Intel Pluggable transceiver module, according to…

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AMD’s most exciting mobile Ryzen launch in 2023 was about how powerful its XDNA 2 NPU will be — a 300% improvement in AI performance is a game changer

AMD has announced it has started shipping nine new mobile processors as part of its 8040 series* dubbed “Hawk Point”, just nine months after its did so with the 7040 “Phoenix” series but that’s not the biggest news from yesterday’s announcement.  Hawk Point looks like a mere stepping stone to…

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Top mobile password managers could be exposing user details

Some of the most popular mobile password managers on Android have a serious security flaw that could cause the worst problem possible for users – leaking their credentials.  Known as “Autospill,” the vulnerability involves a bug in the autofill function on Android devices. It was discovered by researchers at the…

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Push notifications could be used to snoop on Google and Apple users, US Senator warns

Governments could be using push notifications to spy on phones, a top US Senator has warned. Google and Apple phones process push notifications through servers belonging to the tech giants, allowing governments to potentially demand access to this data. Messages, breaking news, and other priority updates all generate push-notifications, meaning…

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Green Card Lottery applicants see private data leaked online

Hundreds of thousands of people applying for the US Green Card Lottery have had their personally identifiable data (PII) exposed on the internet, due to sloppy data protection practices by a third party.  This is according to a report from  researchers at Cybernews, who found the data and notified the…

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Millions of patient scans and health records leaked online

Personally identifiable information (PII), as well as plenty of medical records belonging to millions of patients across the world have been found exposed on the internet and available to anyone who knows where to look. These are the findings of Aplite, which claimed to have found more than 3,800 accessible…

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