Buried in the details of a recent split ruling against Anthropic is a surprising revelation: the generative AI company destroyed millions of physical books by cutting off their bindings and discarding the remains, all to train its AI assistant. Notably, this destruction was cited as a factor that tipped the......
Apple’s CarPlay Ultra faces pushback as Mercedes, Audi, Volvo, and Renault opt out
Apple's push to expand its footprint inside car dashboards is facing mounting resistance from some of the world's top automakers, as the company's new CarPlay Ultra system navigates an uncertain road ahead. Three years after Apple first previewed its vision of CarPlay extending across every major screen in a vehicle,......
AMD Ryzen CPUs continue to crush Intel processors on Amazon best-seller list
Intel CPUs have been completely shut out of Amazon's top 10 best sellers as of late June. While AMD's Zen 3, 4, and 5 chips occupy most of the top 50 spots, Team Blue's latest lineup remains under the shadow of its predecessors. Read Entire Article
Ultra-cheap $28 external 500GB HDD from Amazon tested: works, but with caveats
Fraudulent or misleading storage products continue to be a common issue on e-commerce platforms. Shoppers are often lured by attractive prices from unfamiliar brands, only to discover that they are either non-functional or do not deliver the advertised storage capacity. In some notorious cases, sellers have disguised small-capacity flash drives......
Nvidia DLSS 4 transformer model exits beta, set to bring improved graphics to more games
The latest version of Nvidia's DLSS Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction SDK, released on Wednesday, brings the transformer model out of beta. Promoting the upscaling technology into DLSS's stable branch will likely broaden its adoption in upcoming PC games. Read Entire Article
Study shows gaming can reduce stress, even the violent kind
A recently published study aims to dispel yet another myth about video games, showing that both violent and non-violent gaming sessions can effectively reduce stress levels. The research centers on A Plague Tale: Requiem, a rat-infested action-adventure game released by Focus Entertainment in 2022. Read Entire Article
Hackers show how they can fully control your 2020 Nissan Leaf remotely
Security researchers at the Black Hat conference in Asia have disclosed an exploit in 2020 Nissan Leaf electric vehicles that hijacks the entire computer system. Thanks to a laundry list of vulnerabilities, hackers can remotely control vital systems – from steering and braking to wipers and mirrors. The exploit can......
How PC makers exploited BIOS copyright strings to unlock trial software during the Windows 95 era
Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen recently shared another behind-the-scenes story from the development days of Windows 9x, this time involving software copyright violations by dishonest PC manufacturers. According to Chen, some of these unnamed companies (disguised under fictitious brands in his post) managed to add extra software value to their hardware......
Which operating system was targeted by the first ever mobile phone virus?
Was it Windows, Android, Symbian, or Palm OS? Read Entire Article
Unihertz Titan 2 brings modern power to classic BlackBerry-style design
Unihertz released its first Titan smartphone in 2019, then followed up with the updated Titan Slim a few years later. Now, the BlackBerry-like series is getting a proper sequel with the Titan 2, and people are already throwing money at the Chinese manufacturer to secure a unit. Read Entire Article