Microsoft puts Bing AI on mobile browsers
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 12:04

Microsoft puts Bing AI on mobile browsers


Widening the target market

Microsoft is bringing its AI-powered Bing Chat to all mobile browsers as part of the broader changes which will remove the blocks on third-party browsers.

Banning Huawei might cost German railways millions
Published in Network


Need to redo all its aging infrastructure

Germany's national railway operator would have to spend up to 400 million euros to replace all the components in its infrastructure supplied by Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies.

Qualcomm shows more interest in RISC-V
Published in News
Monday, 07 August 2023 12:03

Qualcomm shows more interest in RISC-V


Arm should be worried

One of Arm's biggest customers Qualcomm is trying out RISC-V and getting involved in a joint venture dedicated to the architecture.

Google will face the music over search supremacy
Published in News


Judge allows the anti-trust case to go ahead

A federal judge said the Department of Justice's landmark case alleging Google's dominance over the online search business is anti-competitive can go ahead.

Zoom wants employees to come into the office
Published in News


If only there were some form of good video conferencing software

In an ironic move, showing a remarkable lack of product self-awareness, the video conferencing outfit, Zoom wants its employees back in the office.

Acoustic hacks are much better with AI
Published in AI
Monday, 07 August 2023 11:52

Acoustic hacks are much better with AI


While they sounded silly before

A team of researchers from Durham University, University of Surrey and Royal Holloway University of London, has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with an accuracy of 95 per cent.

Boffins duplicate their fusion experiments
Published in News


Nothing went boom so that is a good thing

US government scientists have achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time, bringing the dream of limitless, zero-carbon power closer.

“Free speech absolutist” starts suing people
Published in News


Perhaps Musk is just an absolutist

Elon [look at me] Musk, who claims to be a free speech absolutist has sued a civil liberties group who disagreed with what he was doing with Twitter er X.  

Hackers take down spyware outfit
Published in News
Monday, 07 August 2023 11:44

Hackers take down spyware outfit


Forced to close

Polish spyware  LetMeSpy is borked and the company says it will shut down after a June data breach wiped its servers, including its huge trove of data stolen from thousands of victims’ phones.

Apple's results not great due  to poor iPhone sales
Published in News


Tame Apple Press claims "they could have been worse" 

The fruity cargo cult Apple has turned in some results which disappointed almost everyone other than the Tame Apple Press, which cheerfully said "they could have been worse."