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The US government has reportedly opened a probe into Chinese chips being used in Huawei’s latest 5G-enabled smartphone, a move that has raised questions around the effectiveness of President Joe Biden’s recent executive orders that were supposed to have tightened...
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One of the technologies being explored by videoconferencing software vendors involves the use of Deep Fake avatars to present at, or attend, meetings. The avatars allow a presenter to alter their appearance so they always look sharp and to pre-tape their speech for a...
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Apple has pushed out an essential security update to defend against yet another attack by an out-of-control mercenary surveillance group.Like a bad smell, NSO Group has clawed its way back into the spotlight with yet another unprincipled attack against free speech and...
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Microsoft is promising to defend customers of its Copilot AI assistant against copyright lawsuits, the company said in a statement Thursday.Customers are worried that outputs from the generative AI assistant could infringe on copyright law, putting them at risk of...
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently told Amazon employees who refuse to come into the office at least three days a week that “it’s probably not going to work out for you” — threatening to fire those employees (or invite them to engage in a...
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We all take notes. Since grade school, we’ve scribbled down the main points of what we’re learning so we can access that information later. Suddenly, the power of note-taking is about to increase 100-fold.Major existing data-container products such as Box, Dropbox,...
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Good news for PC users: Windows desktop software isn’t going anywhere. In fact, every operating system wants to run it.A decade ago, the tech media was full of pronouncements that “PCs are dying” at the hands of the iPad. But in 2023, the hot new commodity is Windows...
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Chinese cloud and social media conglomerate Tencent has announced that its Hunyuan large language model (LLM) will be available for enterprise use, as companies in the country stake their claim as technology industry and generative AI leaders.“A war of a hundred...
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Not to say I’m obsessed with Apple’s processors, but MediaTek’s latest statement gives us some insight into what new A- and M-series chips from Cupertino may be capable of, and yes, they’ll be faster, cooler, and more performant.MediaTek this morning tried to set its...
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Most of the app recommendations I make these days tend to revolve around Android. It’s the platform I carry in my pocket, after all, and it’s been the primary focus of my writing for something like 7,347 years now.But while there’s certainly something to be said for...
