Toshiba releases new family of helium sealed HDDs
Give your data a squeaky voice
Toshiba has released its new Mx11 family of helium-sealed high-capacity HDDs.
AMD shuns GPU enthusiast crowd
Wants to focus on low to mid range
A dark satanic rumour claiming that AMD wants to move away from the high-end enthusiast GPU crowd to focus on cheap and cheerful chips has been confirmed.
Silicon Valley boss wants Musk prosecuted
Lowering the standards of the world
Silicon Valley investor Roger McNamee has called for Elon [look at me] Musk to be "prosecuted," claiming the Tesla and SpaceX CEO is "undermining" the federal government.
Generation Z can’t type
Training plummeted
While they were supposed to be computer wiz kids, Generation Z famously can’t type.
Activists want "guaranteed minimum support time"
Unfortunately in the US where governments do what they are told
Digital rights activists want device manufacturers to disclose a "guaranteed minimum support time" for their gadgets and for federal regulations to ensure a product's core functionality remains intact even after software updates cease.
British watchdog growls at Google’s ad practices
Hurting competition
The British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) watchdog has snarled at objections regarding Google’s ad tech practices, provisionally finding that these practices are impacting competition in the UK.
Telegram is a haven for identity thieves
Place to peddle everything
The Wall Street Journal paints a grim picture of Telegram, describing it as "the premier internet platform to buy everything from hacked data and weapons to illicit drugs and child sexual abuse material, according to current and former law-enforcement officials and cybercrime researchers."
AI is not killing as many jobs as expected
Just jobs in some areas
Global customer-service behemoth has rolled out an AI translation tool that allows its representatives to converse with customers in 200 different languages. Yet, the outift is still hiring.
Microsoft wants to purge deepfakes from Bing
Teams up with StopNCII
Software King of the World Microsoft has announced a partnership with StopNCII to help remove non-consensual intimate images, including deepfakes, from its Bing search engine.
AMD launches new Zen 4 CPU
Ryzen 5 7600X3D arrives as Ryzen 5 7600X3D seems to vanish
AMD has launched the new Zen 4 CPU, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D, while the hugely popular Ryzen 7 7800X3D seems to be vanishing from the market. While the Ryzen 5 7600X3D was exclusive to Micro Center in the US, it is now coming to Mind Factory in Germany as well.