Micron jacks up the prices
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Tuesday, 01 April 2025 09:47

Micron jacks up the prices


Chipmaker banks on AI boom 

Memory vendor Micron has confirmed what punters feared—memory is getting dearer, and it’s not stopping anytime soon.

Samsung crams TikTok and AI into your fridge
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Bespoke appliances now come with screens, sensors, and a heap of gimmickry

Samsung's AI-powered fridge now recognises your leftovers and plays TikTok while you grab a Coke — all for the price of a decent used car.

Microsoft moved by DeepSeek’s AI blitz
Published in AI
Friday, 28 March 2025 11:13

Microsoft moved by DeepSeek’s AI blitz


Getting more from it than ChatGPT

The Software King of the World, Microsoft, has been playing with DeepSeek’s R1, and it appears to be impressed.

ChatGPT hamstrung by hypersensitive terms and conditions
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Ancient religious fears

OpenAI’s flagship AI assistant, ChatGPT, is finding itself constrained by its efforts to appease religious groups.

AI crawler bots turn open source into a digital warzone
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Anubis protects Xe Iaso's Git repository 

Software developer Xe Iaso has had enough of playing digital whack-a-mole with Amazon’s AI scrapers.

Cloud engineers are top AI users
Published in Cloud
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 10:38

Cloud engineers are top AI users


Cybersecurity plays catch-up

Cloud Engineers are the new AI overlords, leaving everyone else to squabble over second place, according to a new report.

Ex-Intel boss trades chips for church chatbots
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Still living on a prayer

Once tasked with rescuing Troubled Chipzilla from its decade-long spiral into mediocrity, Pat [kicking] Gelsinger has now found his true calling.

Job’s Mob keeps switching Apple Intelligence back on
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It seems the intelligent thing to do

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has once again decided it knows better than its users. With its latest iOS 18.3.2 update, it’s quietly forcing Apple Intelligence back on—even if Apple fanboys told it to sod off.

Scaling up will not solve AI problems
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Monday, 24 March 2025 11:09

Scaling up will not solve AI problems


Boffins tell Big Tech to stop sniffing GPU fumes 

The people who build artificial intelligence have finally acknowledged have warned that endlessly increasing hardware for AI models is about as effective as solving climate change by buying more SUVs.

Clearview AI tried to buy 690 million arrest records
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What could possibly go wrong?

Surveillance-snoop-for-hire Clearview AI attempted to snap up nearly 700 million arrest records and 390 million mugshots—complete with Social Security numbers, email addresses, home addresses, birthdates, and phone numbers.