Summary Western Europe experienced its hottest June on record, with extreme temperatures hitting the region due to consecutive heatwaves. According to the EU’s climate monitor, Copernicus, last month recorded the…
Over 240 browser extensions, with nearly a million users, have been unknowingly converting their browsers into web-scraping bots. This alarming trend involves extensions ranging from bookmark managers to volume boosters,…
Soundslice Adds ASCII Tab Support After ChatGPT Hallucinates Feature After discovering that ChatGPT was falsely telling users that Soundslice could convert ASCII tablature into playable music, founder Adrian Holovaty decided…
Hugging Face Launches $299 Robot That Could Disrupt Entire Robotics Industry Hugging Face has introduced the Reachy Mini, a $299 desktop robot aimed at making AI-powered robotics accessible to a…
IKEA Ditches Zigbee For Thread Going All In On Matter Smart Homes IKEA is relaunching its smart home line with over 20 new Matter-over-Thread devices. These will be compatible across…
UK Full-Fiber Broadband Coverage Jumps From 12% to 78% in Five Years The UK has transformed its broadband infrastructure in five years — with full-fiber coverage jumping from 12% of…
Summary America’s largest power grid, serving 67 million customers across 13 states, is facing significant challenges as the demand from AI and data centres surges. This has resulted in electricity…
Summary Researchers at ETH Zürich and the Swiss Federal Technology Institute have successfully trained a fully open large language model (LLM) on the Alps supercomputer. This significant development was announced…
Microsoft Touts $500 Million in AI Savings While Slashing Jobs Microsoft is highlighting significant savings from AI, claiming to have saved over $500 million in its call centres last year.…
Western Europe Sees Hottest June on Record Amid Extreme Heatwaves Western Europe sweltered through its hottest June on record last month, with extreme temperatures resulting from back-to-back heatwaves, according to…
