Technology
- OpenAI announces SearchGPT: its new AI search enginewww.gsmarena.com OpenAI announces SearchGPT: its new AI search engine
It's powered by the GPT-4 model family and is planned to integrate into ChatGPT at some point in the future. SearchGPT is OpenAI’s long-awaited answer to...
- Researchers discover battery-free technology which harvests power from radio and Wi-Fi signals for low-powered deviceswww.tomshardware.com Researchers discover battery-free technology which harvests power from radio and Wi-Fi signals for low-powered devices
Applications would result in less dependency on batteries in low-powered devices
- Apple's Supply Chain Rebalancing: Overcoming Challenges in India and Returning to Chinese Productionwww.gizchina.com Apple's Supply Chain Rebalancing: Overcoming Challenges in India and Returning to Chinese Production
Apple supply chain: Apple shifts iPhone production back to China after facing quality and other production issues in India.
- Supercomputing icon warns that China could have the world's fastest supercomputerswww.tomshardware.com Supercomputing icon warns that China could have the world's fastest supercomputers
Supercomputer expert thinks China has better supercomputers than the U.S.
- Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makersarstechnica.com Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers
Keys were labeled "DO NOT TRUST." Nearly 500 device models use them anyway.
- CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outagetechcrunch.com CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | TechCrunch
Several people who received the CrowdStrike offer found that the gift card didn't work, while others got an error saying the voucher had been canceled.
- CrowdStrike says hackers are threatening to leak sensitive information on adversarieswww.nbcnews.com CrowdStrike says hackers are threatening to leak sensitive information on adversaries
The company said some of its information had already been released.
- World of Warcraft’s Entire Development Team Has Officially Unionizedwww.ign.com World of Warcraft’s Entire Development Team Has Officially Unionized - IGN
The developers behind World of Warcraft, one of the world’s biggest and longest-running MMORPGs, have officially unionized.
- 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Findswww.forbes.com 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds
Despite 96% of C-suite executives expecting AI to boost productivity, employees say it has increased their workload, hampered productivity and caused job burnout, research shows.
- Google Chrome is no longer 'deprecating third-party cookies'9to5google.com Google Chrome is no longer 'deprecating third-party cookies'
In a rather stark turnaround, Google is no longer ending support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser...
- Ancient CRT monitor hits astonishing 700Hz — resolution reduced to just 120p to reach extraordinary refresh ratewww.tomshardware.com Ancient CRT monitor hits astonishing 700Hz — resolution reduced to just 120p to reach extraordinary refresh rate
Faster than the fastest modern refresh rate panels on the market right now
- Piracy Portal ‘Hikari-no-Akari’ Shuts Down Following Legal Pressuretorrentfreak.com Piracy Portal ‘Hikari-no-Akari’ Shuts Down Following Legal Pressure * TorrentFreak
Hikari-no-Akari, a decade-old pirate site that specialized in Japanese music, has closed its doors voluntarily.
- Chinese researchers develop ultralight sunlight-powered micro aerial vehicle for sustained flight
the paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07609-4
- Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing, but not due to the same bug as desktop chips — chipmaker blames common software and hardware issueswww.tomshardware.com Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing, but not due to the same bug as desktop chips — chipmaker blames common software and hardware issues
Not the same instability that's affecting desktop Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh processors
- X is working on a way to block links in replieswww.engadget.com X is working on a way to block links in replies
X is developing a new feature that could help address spam posts on its website.
- Exclusive: See The Ways Shady T-Mobile Stores Treat Customers And Employeestmo.report Exclusive: See The Ways Shady T-Mobile Stores Treat Customers And Employees
Current and former employees from T-Mobile authorized retailers are commenting about poor leadership and sales practices. See them here.
- What is Firefox supposed to do?www.spacebar.news What is Firefox supposed to do?
Firefox now collects data for advertisers. It's not actually scary, but there is a bigger problem.
- Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US userswww.salon.com Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all U.S. users
The platform prevents users from blocking or muting the tags, which inorganically appear atop the trending page
X, the social media platform owned by Trump megadonor Elon Musk, is promoting Trump campaign-curated content to all U.S. users, regardless of whether they have opted out of Trump-related content.
On the platform formerly known as Twitter, banner ads for the Trump campaign donning the #Trump2024 tag appear for all U.S. users, even those who’ve blocked words, topics, and hashtags related to the candidate or his campaign or muted the advertiser.
Additionally, the #MAGA tag displays an edited image of the former president from his attempted assassination and the #Trump2024 hashtag displays an American flag.
It is unclear whether the Trump campaign paid for the images on the #Trump2024 and #MAGA tags, though an advertisement for the tag on the site’s trending page reads “Promoted by Team Trump.” As Mashable noted, it is the first time the platform has enabled the image feature to promote a specific political candidate.
Clicking the Trump2024 tag also prompts American flag graphics to flood the screen.
- Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctionswww.tomshardware.com Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctions
Huawei and SMIC could produce 3nm chips using DUV tools and multi patterning.
- Former telephone giant Nokia sees double-digit fall in sales amid challenging 5G environmentfortune.com Former telephone giant Nokia sees double-digit fall in sales amid challenging 5G environment
Nokia Oyj sales in Q2 declined 18% to €4.47 billion ($4.9 billion) — the lowest of any period since 2015.
- Asia Races Ahead in Industrial Robot Installationswww.statista.com Infographic: Asia Races Ahead in Industrial Robot Installations
This chart shows the annual installations of industrial robots (in 1,000 units).
- China escapes Microsoft outage, thanks to Beijing’s tech self-sufficiency drivewww.scmp.com China escapes Microsoft outage, thanks to Beijing’s tech self-sufficiency drive
The Microsoft Windows outage that affected foreign businesses and luxury hotels in China on Friday left the country’s key infrastructure unaffected.
- Global IT outage live updates: Cyber security company linked to issues at banks, supermarkets, airlineswww.abc.net.au Live: Cyber security company linked to major IT outage across Australia
Computer security company CrowdStrike is linked to a major IT outage affecting banks, airports, supermarkets and businesses across Australia and the world.
- Chinese team develops AI model capable of reading cancer imagesnews.cgtn.com AI breakthrough: Chinese team creates model to read cancer images across 20 organs | The Express Tribune
This large language model (LLM) known as PathOrchestra represents a breakthrough in AI-assisted disease diagnosis
- She Made $10,000 a Month Defrauding Apps like Uber and Instacart. Meet the Queen of the Rideshare Mafiawww.wired.com She Made $10,000 a Month Defrauding Apps like Uber and Instacart. Meet the Queen of the Rideshare Mafia
Priscila Barbosa came to the US with a dream of making it. Using gig-economy platforms she built a business empire up from nothing. There was just one huge problem.
- Huawei officially opens its 2,600-acre R&D center in Shanghai, will accommodate over 35,000 scientists and engineerswww.tomshardware.com Huawei officially opens its 2,600-acre R&D center in Shanghai, will accommodate over 35,000 scientists and engineers
This facility is larger than Apple Park and Microsoft's Redmond Campus, combined.
- U.S. chip equipment makers rely on China for 40% of salesasia.nikkei.com U.S. chip equipment makers rely on China for 40% of sales
Applied Materials, Lam Research ship legacy products not targeted by export curbs
https://archive.ph/C0lfX
- Gemini AI platform caught scanning Google Drive files without user permissionwww.techradar.com Gemini AI platform accused of scanning Google Drive files without user permission
Gemini users may want to up their privacy
- Ericsson Struggles with Huawei's Dominance in European Telecom Market Despite Ban - EconoTimeswww.econotimes.com Ericsson Struggles with Huawei's Dominance in European Telecom Market Despite Ban - EconoTimes
Despite US and EU bans, Huawei remains a formidable competitor for Ericsson in Europe, impacting market shares and revenue. Bans Fail to Stifle Huaweis Growth Huawei is a significant competitor in Europe for...
- Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Datahackread.com Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data
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