Samsung Electronics does well thanks to 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.