NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory missions, critical for tracking climate data and helping farmers monitor crop health, may face shutdown as proposed by the Trump administration. This decision raises concerns about…
Summary A jury in San Francisco ruled that Meta unlawfully collected sensitive data from users of the Flo period tracker app without their consent, violating the California Invasion of Privacy…
Lyft Will Use Chinese Driverless Cars In Britain and Germany Lyft has announced a partnership with China’s Baidu to deploy driverless cars in Britain and Germany. The move follows a…
Nvidia Rejects US Demand For Backdoors in AI Chips Nvidia’s chief security officer has publicly stated that the company’s GPUs will not have backdoors or kill switches. The statement comes…
US charges 2 Chinese nationals with illegally shipping Nvidia AI chips to China Federal authorities in the US have charged two Chinese nationals, Chuan Geng and Shiwei Yang, for exporting…
An open source developer claims that AWS deleted his ten-year-old account, erasing all his data, due to what he suspects was a flawed test of a user-pruning script. Abdelkader Boudih,…
Summary A recent analysis has revealed that nearly a third of all retracted papers at PLoS ONE can be linked to just 45 editors. This study, published in Proceedings of…
Summary The U.S. Transportation Department has unveiled proposed rules that aim to enhance the operation of drones beyond the visual line of sight of their operators. This regulatory shift is…
DRAM Prices Soar as China Eyes Self-Reliance For High-End Chips Standard DDR4 DRAM prices have doubled in a month, with significant price hikes attributed to Chinese manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies…
Google’s DeepMind has unveiled Genie 3, an innovative AI model designed to generate interactive 3D game worlds on-the-fly. This new model enables continuous user interaction lasting several minutes, a significant…
