The chip industry is beginning to resemble a battlefield, and governments around the world are taking preemptive action to avoid being caught off guard. Dutch officials have now announced that they will intervene in decisions made by Nexperia, a major producer of less advanced components such as diodes, bipolar transistors,......
OpenAI and Broadcom team up on $10 billion custom AI chip deal
OpenAI and Broadcom are moving forward to develop and roll out 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and computing systems over the next four years. This not only marks a significant stride in OpenAI's effort to expand its infrastructure but also signals its ambition to influence the design of specialized......
Obsidian for the privacy-minded: offline, secure notes
Obsidian offers a markdown approach to note-taking, stores your notes locally, and optionally syncs them with end-to-end encryption, keeping you in control. Obsidian supports graph views and backlinks, and caters to users who value privacy without sacrificing rich linking. Read Entire Article
TP-Link conducts successful Wi-Fi 8 trials, promises better reliability and lower latency
Chinese tech firm TP-Link has announced its first successful Wi-Fi 8 trial using a prototype device. According to the company, the trial – conducted in collaboration with an unnamed partner – successfully validated both the Wi-Fi 8 beacon and data throughput, marking a "critical milestone in Wi-Fi 8 development." Read...
Final Sentence is the battle royale game typing enthusiasts have been waiting for
According to the US Department of Education, nearly half of all high school students took a keyboarding class in 2000. By 2019, that number had fallen to just 2.5 percent and is probably even lower today. Applications like Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing made it fun to practice using the keyboard......
OpenAI no longer required to store all users’ deleted ChatGPT logs after court ruling
In December 2023, The New York Times sued OpenAI over some very familiar claims: that it had used the publication's copyrighted material in its training data. The suit states that millions of the Times' news articles, in-depth investigations, opinion pieces, reviews, how-to guides, and more were used to train OpenAI's......
Two critical flaws put 7-Zip users at risk of remote code execution
Two recently discovered security flaws could make 7-Zip a serious risk to data and system security. These bugs had been known internally for months, and 7-Zip developer Igor Pavlov released a patch this summer. However, users relying on older versions are strongly advised to update ASAP. Because 7-Zip does not......
Scientists achieve real-time control of quantum uncertainty using ultra-fast light
Squeezed light is a specialized form of light in which quantum fluctuations are redistributed between two complementary properties. According to quantum theory, light is characterized by two interdependent parameters that reflect its particle-like behavior: one related to its position or phase, and the other to its intensity. Read Entire Article
Who coined the term “nanotechnology” and in what year?
Was it a scientist, a physicist, or perhaps even a novelist? Read Entire Article
Elon Musk’s xAI looks to gaming and robotics as it develops AI that understands the world
People familiar with the company's plans told the Financial Times that xAI recently hired Nvidia researchers Zeeshan Patel and Ethan He, both of whom have experience developing world models and simulation-based AI. Read Entire Article