Meta sets its sights on rivalling Google and Bing with new search engine
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Quietly working on webcrawling

Meta is now setting its sights on building a search engine to compete with giants like Google and Bing.

Apple's iPhone 16 banned in Indonesia
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Standards of the world goers up a bit

The Indonesian government has taken on the wrath of the fruity cargo cult Apple by banning its lacklustre, overpriced iPhone 16 and its other trinkets from the country.

Vole accuses Google of running European "shadow campaigns"
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Wants to discredit Microsoft with regulators

Software King of the World Microsoft has slammed Google for running "shadow campaigns" in Europe designed to discredit the software giant with regulators.

Apple intelligence is delayed in Europe until Christmas
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Europeans are far too intelligent to accept this

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is starting to release products with its over-hyped  “Apple Intelligence” features, but it looks like it will not be seen in Europe until the end of the year.

Fitness app Strava exposes movements of world leaders' security teams
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So the drones know where they are

French newspaper Le Monde has uncovered a significant security flaw in the fitness app Strava, revealing that it can track the confidential movements of foreign leaders.

Motherboard allows 24TB RAM and 384 AMD EPYC Turin cores
Published in PC Hardware


A petabyte storage

ASRock Rack's TURIN2D48G-2L+ has just been released and it appears to go to 11 on the specs as iff no one told the designers to cut back on anything.

Chipzilla must slice off its Fab business
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Former directors say

Four former Intel directors have published an article in Fortune, urging the company to spin off its fab business.

AI transcription tool whisper faces scrutiny over accuracy
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You have a bad case of Scrutter's Cephaloanal Inversion

Hospitals are starting to use a transcription tool powered by a hallucination-prone OpenAI model.

Graphene-based memristors closer to the shops
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Scalable production here

Boffins from Queen Mary University of London and Paragraf  have taken a significant step forward in developing graphene-based memristors.

Nvidia surpasses Apple as world's most valuable company
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Tame Apple Press in shock

The Tame Apple Press spent Friday night in the pub drowning its collective sorrows as it was announced that Nvidia has overtaken Apple as the world's most valuable company.