A.I. is dumber than a cat, claims Meta man
Cat says Meta Man is dumber than AI
Meta senior researcher Yann LeCun told the Wall Street Journal that humanity has nothing to fear from A.I. and that it is “dumber than a cat.”
Chinese boffins crack encryption with a D-Wave quantum computer
Encryption is potentially dead and alive
Chinese boffins have used a D-Wave quantum computer to mount a successful quantum attack on widely used encryption algorithms.
UK might make USB-C default charging standard
Brexit means copying Europe
The British government has now begun a consultation on whether it should follow the EU and India in implementing USB-C as the default charging port for all consumer devices.
Adobe releases video AI model
Firefly builds video content from text prompts
Adobe has started publicly distributing an AI model to generate video from text prompts.
Apple’s next “cheaper” headset will still be pricey
Still out of the price range of most
The fruity cargo cult Apple has not done much to lower the price of a new “affordable” net Apple Vision device.
Google going nuclear
Will buy small modular reactors
In a shocking move, Google has decided to go nuclear and will purchase power from Kairos Power's small modular reactors (SMRs) as part of its ongoing commitment to clean energy and to meet its data centre demands.
MSI confirms that Ryzen 9000X3D-series processor will disappoint
Leaked benchmarks
While punters had been hoping that Ryzen 9000X3D-series might save the brand, it appears that is not going to happen.
Steam confirms you don’t own the games you paid for
It is like American beer, you can only rent it
Steam, the flogger of computer games, has confirmed to its users that they don’t own anything it has sold them.
Musk’s "game changing" robots were run by humans again
They could just manage to walk
It seems after spending a fortune in development, Elon [look at me] Musk’s robots are not much closer to hitting the shops.
US quartz mining has begun again
After being shut down by Hurricane Helene
The US IT supply chain breathed a sigh of relief as one of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors and other high-tech products from mines in a western North Carolina community severely damaged by Hurricane Helene is operating again.