Samsung Electronics does well thanks to AI
Published in AI


Believes it will get better than expected profit


Shares of Samsung Electronics jumped to their highest level since January 2021 after the South Korean tech giant said it expects better-than-expected profit for the second quarter, thanks to explosive demand for artificial intelligence.

AI produces mixed results as code generators
Published in AI


It depends if it has had coffee

IEEE Spectrum (the IEEE's official publication) has released a study about how effective AI  code generators compare human programmers and the results were mixed.

Vole claims all web content is freeware to be scraped for AI
Published in AI


Unless the content producer says otherwise

Software King of the World Microsoft has stirred up some trouble by declaring that all web content is opened to be the scraped for AI training unless its producer said it cannot be.

FreeBSN contributor mocks open sauce death claims
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Rumours that free and open-source software has "come apart" are a little early

Long-time FreeBSD contributor Poul-Henning Kamp has been mocking the idea that free and open-source software has "come apart" and "will end in tears and regret."

Roman Catholics to declare first patron saint of the Internet
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Carlo Acutis is first millennial saint

A teenage kid interested in computers will become the church's first millennial saint next year.

Chipzilla kills off two-year-old processor
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Core i9-12900KS never got into its stride

Intel has posted two Product Change Notifications (PCN) announcing the discontinuation of multiple processors, including the Core i9-12900KS, which was only released two years ago.

Nvidia is going to make a killing in China
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Embargos? "What embargos?

Nvidia is on track to sell $12 billion of artificial intelligence chips in China this year despite US export controls that have throttled its business in one of the world’s largest semiconductor markets.

AMD engineers show off exascale APU
Published in News
Friday, 05 July 2024 11:32

AMD engineers show off exascale APU


MI300A processor gets deep-dive paper

The boffins behind the AMD Instinct MI300A APU have published their research on the future of “exascale heterogeneous processing.”

Arrow Lake will only support overclocking on pricey motherboards
Published in PC Hardware


Z890 motherboards on the list

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn suggesting that overclocking of  Chipzilla's upcoming Arrow Lake desktop processors will only be officially supported on the top-tier Z890 motherboards.

Apple agrees to Russian censorship
Published in Mobiles
Friday, 05 July 2024 11:26

Apple agrees to Russian censorship


Helping Putin to round up dissidents

Fruit-themed cargo cult Apple,  has, in its infinite wisdom, decided to remove several apps offering virtual private network (VPN) services from the Russian AppStore, following a polite request from Roskomnadzor, Russia’s ever-vigilant media regulator.