In a recent post on its official blog, the Internet Archive (IA) confirmed that the "Hachette v. Internet Archive" case has finally come to an end. The organization, founded in 1996, is "deeply disappointed" with the recent verdict by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, but has decided not to......
Brazilian judge overturns ruling that forced Apple to open up its Store
Last week, Brazil's antitrust regulator CADE ordered Apple to allow users to download apps and make purchases from outside its App Store, with a 20-day deadline and fines for not complying. Now, a Brazilian federal court has overturned that injunction, ruling that it was "disproportionate and unnecessary," 9to5Mac reported. Cade...
Nasa announces further delays in Artemis moon missions
US space agency chief says astronauts still on schedule to make landing ‘well ahead’ of China’s lunar voyage The Nasa administrator, Bill Nelson, announced on Thursday new delays in the US space agency’s Artemis programme to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972, pushing back the...
Nvidia Blackwell chip successor “Rubin” moves forward by six months, uses 3nm manufacturing and HBM4
According to the Taiwan Economic Daily, Nvidia's Rubin series AI graphics chips will be available in the second half of 2025, half a year earlier than previously reported. Although details regarding performance improvements are slim, the new GPUs will feature more advanced memory and a newer semiconductor process node than......
‘I’m loving it’: why so many English players feel the pull of French rugby
Will Collier is revelling in the Castres fans’ passion and enjoying other benefits of life in south of France It is the matchday bus rides to his new club’s stadium that, for Will Collier, perfectly capture the parallel universe of French club rugby. “You can hear the fans when you’re...
Mitchell Starc rules as pink-ball king for Australia in second Test with India
India 180; Australia 86-1 stumps on day one in Adelaide Starc takes six wickets, including with first ball of Test Sporting songs from the outer are usually dross, partly because they’re most often sung tunelessly by annoying drunks, and partly because they usually consist of one cringey couplet jammed with...
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 PC system requirements, console performance, and new release date revealed
Kingdom Come: Deliverance was one of our favorite games of 2018, earning a place on our Best PC Games (You Should be Playing) list. The highly anticipated sequel looks amazing in the trailers, but will you need a monster PC to play it? Read Entire Article
This New York town doesn’t want to be a climate experiment
On a hot morning in July, Ray Apy stood in a vacant lot in upstate New York and pointed to the mowed grass, explaining what he wanted to build there: a pilot plant to convert waste into something useful. He tipped the contents of a small glass jar into his...
The Morning After: Google DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive 3D worlds
Google DeepMind has just revealed Genie 2, a world-modelling AI capable of creating 3D worlds and sustaining those environments for significantly longer. Genie 2 isn’t a game engine. It’s a diffusion model that generates images as the player (either a human being or another AI agent) moves through the world...
Ding and Gukesh miss wins as World Chess Championship nears climax
World champion and 18-year-old challenger are deadlocked at 4.5-4.5 in their best-of-14 series which finishes next week China’s world champion, Ding Liren, and his Indian opponent, Gukesh Dommaraju, at 18 the youngest ever title challenger, are deadlocked at 4.5-4.5 after nine of their scheduled best of 14 games in Singapore....