Impoverished Streaming Services Are Driving Viewers Back to Piracy Summary The Slashdot summary highlights a Guardian report showing a strong resurgence in video piracy as streaming services fragment, raise prices…
Dodgy Huawei Chips Nearly Sunk DeepSeek’s Next-Gen R2 Model Summary DeepSeek’s development of its R2 model was seriously delayed after months of failed training runs on Huawei’s Ascend accelerators. Sources…
Trump Administration Considers Stake In Intel Summary Intel’s shares jumped about 7% after reports (CNBC and Bloomberg) that the Trump administration is considering taking a stake in the chipmaker to…
Plex Users Urged To Update Media Server After Security Flaw Exposed Summary Plex has quietly released a patched build of Plex Media Server after a security issue was found via…
Russian Hackers Seized Control of Norwegian Dam, Spy Chief Says Summary Norway’s Police Security Service (PST) has publicly attributed an April cyber-attack on the Bremanger hydropower dam to pro-Russian actors.…
Ghost Particle That Smashed Into Earth Breaks Records Summary In February 2023 the KM3NeT detector beneath the Mediterranean observed an event labelled KM3-230213A that reconstructs to an extraordinary neutrino energy…
Applied Materials Sued In China Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft Summary Beijing E-Town Semiconductor Technology Co. has filed a lawsuit in the Beijing Intellectual Property Court accusing US chip-equipment supplier…
Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies At 88 Summary Margaret “Maggie” Boden, a British philosopher and cognitive scientist who used computational ideas to probe human thought and creativity, has…
‘Cheapfake’ AI Celeb Videos Are Rage-Baiting People on YouTube Summary WIRED investigated more than 120 YouTube channels publishing low-effort, AI-generated celebrity ‘fanfiction’ videos. These so‑called “cheapfakes” stitch together still images,…
NIST Digital Identity Guidelines Evolve with Threat Landscape Summary NIST released an updated version of its Digital Identity Guidelines (SP 800-63), the first revision since 2017, to address modern threats…
