US ICE monitoring social media posts
Want to know if you don’t like the US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has used a system called Giant Oak Search Technology (GOST) to help the agency analyse social media posts determine if they are "derogatory" to the US.
Atom Computing has a 1,180-qubit quantum computer
Available next year
A startup called Atom Computing announced that it has been doing internal testing of a 1,180 qubit quantum computer and will make it available to customers next year.
Security company gutted after security breach
Okta loses $2 billion
Since disclosing a security breach of its support systems, Okta has shed more than $2 billion from its market valuation.
Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 chipset eclipses M series
Benchmarks show M series already fades to grey
Benchmarks for the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 chipset show that Qualcomm is already doing better than Apple’s M-series.
Bloke who took out first software patent expires
Dies aged 93
Univac mainframe programmer Martin Goetz who later received the first US. patent for software, died on 10 October. He was 93.
Apple claims it has invented AI at last
It will just take it a while to get into the shops
Fruity cargo cult Apple has re-enforced its position at the cutting edge of technology development and invented AI.
Google will mask IP addresses
Testing new privacy feature
Google is getting ready to test a new "IP Protection" feature for the Chrome browser that enhances users' privacy by masking their IP addresses using proxy servers.
Nvidia will have Windows Arm chips by 2025
Tame Apple Press claims it has all to do with Jobs Mob
The Tame Apple Press is horrified that Nvidia is designing ARM-based processors that would run Microsoft’s Windows operating system and believes that the big three are coming for Jobs Mob.
Millions of smart meters will soon be useless
Apparently, no one thought of this
The UK government has not devised a timetable to replace millions of smart meters that will be defunct when 2G and 3G mobile networks are switched off.
Artists work out how to poison AI
Going back to the days of arsenic paint.
A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it's scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways.