IT News 5 months ago

At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies - Editor’s note: This analysis is part of The Atlantic’s investigation into how YouTube vid... -

The Atlantic

AI Is Coming for YouTube Creators

At least 15 million videos have been snatched by tech companies.

IT News 5 months ago

Rocks found on Mars are some of the strongest clues yet of past life - Detailed image analysis of speckled rocks found by the Perseverance rover has confirmed a... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/10/life-on-mars-rocks-mudstones-rover/

IT News 5 months ago

Amazon’s Zoox reaches robotaxi milestone with launch of service in Las Vegas - (Zoox Photo) Zoox launched its fully autonomous ride-hailing services in Las V... -

GeekWire

Amazon’s Zoox reaches robotaxi milestone with launch of service in Las Vegas

Zoox will offer free rides on and around the Las Vegas Strip as it awaits regulatory approval for paid service. It's the first official city f...

#robotaxi #amazon #zoox

IT News 5 months ago

Bare Metal STM32: the Various Real Time Clock Flavors - Keeping track of time is essential, even for microcontrollers, which is why a real... -

Hackaday

Bare Metal STM32: The Various Real Time Clock Flavors

Keeping track of time is essential, even for microcontrollers, which is why a real-time clock (RTC) peripheral is a common feature in MCUs. In the ...

#softwaredevelopment #microcontrollers #realtimeclock #featured #skills #stm32

IT News 5 months ago

Head of UK's Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat - Dr Jean Innes is stepping down after the government told the charity to focus on defence ... -

Head of UK's Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat

Dr Jean Innes is stepping down after the government told the charity to focus on defence research.

IT News 5 months ago

Jaguar Land Rover admits hackers may have taken data - The car-maker previously said there was no evidence that customers information had been t... -

Jaguar Land Rover admits hackers may have taken data

The car-maker previously said there was no evidence that customers information had been taken.

IT News 5 months ago

Luigi Mangione's likeness used to model shirt on Shein - An image with the likeness of Mr Mangione was used to advertise a white, short-sleeved sh... -

Luigi Mangione's likeness used to model shirt on Shein

An image with the likeness of Mr Mangione was used to advertise a white, short-sleeved shirt.

IT News 5 months ago

Family of dead teen say ChatGPT's new parental controls not enough - OpenAI has introduced new rules in the wake of the family's allegations that ChatGPT enco... -

Family of dead teen say ChatGPT's new parental controls not enough

OpenAI has introduced new rules in the wake of the family's allegations that ChatGPT encouraged their child to take his own life.

IT News 5 months ago

Google told to pay $425m in privacy lawsuit - Google says the decision misunderstands how its products work, and it will appeal the rul... -

Google told to pay $425m in privacy lawsuit

Google says the decision misunderstands how its products work, and it will appeal the ruling.

IT News 5 months ago

Google avoids break-up but must share data with rivals - A case over the US tech giant's dominance in search allows it to hang on to its Chrome we... -

Google avoids break-up but must share data with rivals

A case over the US tech giant's dominance in search allows it to hang on to its Chrome web browser.

IT News 5 months ago

A let-off or tougher than it looks? What the Google monopoly ruling means - The search giant is not being broken up -so how much will it be affected by the remedies ... -

A let-off or tougher than it looks? What the Google monopoly ruling means

The search giant is not being broken up -so how much will it be affected by the remedies a judge has instead ordered?

IT News 5 months ago

Big clouds scramble as EU Data Act brings new data transfer rules - Arbitrarily inflated lock-in-tastic fees curbed as movement charges must be cost-linked M... -

Big clouds scramble over EU Data Act and data transfers

Updated: Arbitrarily inflated lock-in-tastic fees curbed as movement charges must be cost-linked

IT News 5 months ago

Oracle boasts $455B backlog from AI boom, but not all its new friends will live to pay up - With extinction event predicted, Big Red's four-year forecasts will have to meet reality ... -

Oracle

Comment: With extinction event predicted, Big Red's four-year forecasts will have to meet reality

IT News 5 months ago

Samsung 9100 Pro 8TB SSD review: Bigger, badder, and better - Samsung pushes the limit with the 8TB 9100 Pro, offering th... -

Tom

Samsung 9100 Pro 8TB SSD review: Bigger, badder, and better

Finally, a large capacity high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD.

#pccomponents #storage #ssds

IT News 5 months ago

Lucky bidder scoops $8,000 PC for $23 at auction — Mislabelled Fractal Design case listing had 24-core Threadripper 3960X, 256GB of memory, and an RTX 3080 Ti inside - A lucky online auction bidder has scored an $8,000 PC for j... -

Tom

Lucky bidder scoops $8,000 PC for $23 at auction — Mislabelled Fractal Design case listing had 24-core Threadripper 3960X, 256GB of memory, and an RTX 3080 Ti inside

A Puget Systems engineer confirmed this system probably sold for over $8,000 in 2021.

#gamingpcs #desktops

IT News 5 months ago

The Download: AI’s energy future - This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a d... -

MIT Technology Review

The Download: AI’s energy future

Plus: Meta has been accused of burying research in VR's dangers

#thedownload

IT News 5 months ago

Nvidia's context-optimized Rubin CPX GPUs were inevitable - Why strap pricey, power-hungry HBM to a job that doesn't benefit from the bandwidth? Anal... -

Nvidia

Analysis: Why strap pricey, power-hungry HBM to a job that doesn't benefit from the bandwidth?

IT News 5 months ago

Halot X-1 review: A solid step forward for serious hobbyists - Halot's X-1 offers great prints, smart features, and a few ... -

Tom

Halot X-1 review: A solid step forward for serious hobbyists

A bold entry in the resin game that mostly pays off

#3dprinting

IT News 5 months ago

Nvidia’s latest RTX Remix update brings path-traced particles to classic games — major overhaul promises 'tens of thousands' of particles without significant performance reduction - Nvidia’s modding platform for retrofitting classic games wi... -

Tom

Nvidia’s latest RTX Remix update brings path-traced particles to classic games — major overhaul promises

A major RTX Remix update adds fully path-traced fire, smoke, and VFX to classic games, but questions remain about performance on older cards.

#videogames

IT News 5 months ago

Nvidia claims software and hardware upgrades allow Blackwell Ultra GB300 to dominate MLPerf benchmarks — touts 45% DeepSeek R-1 inference throughput increase over GB200 - Nvidia is claiming the top spot in GPU performance in a ran... -

Tom

Nvidia claims software and hardware upgrades allow Blackwell Ultra GB300 to dominate MLPerf benchmarks — touts 45% DeepSeek R-1 inference throughput increase over GB200

Big increases in performance when running a range of popular open source models.

#pccomponents #gpus