Concern over Putin’s financial backing of Twitter
Secret deals
Concern has been raised after it was revealed in a court case that two Russian oligarchs with close ties to Tsar Vladamir Putin fronted up with some of the money for Elon [Look at Me] Musk’s Twitter takeover.
Core Ultra 200V CPUs get driver support for Arc
Arc 140V and Arc 130V "Xe2" integrated GPUs
Chipzilla’s Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" CPUs have received their first driver support for the Arc 140V and Arc 130V "Xe2" integrated GPUs.
Black Myth: Wukong hits snag on Xbox
Memory issue creates crashes
The Xbox version of Black Myth: Wukong seems to have encountered a memory issue that is causing it to crash.
Quantum network tested in New York
If the cats can make it there they can make it anywhere
Qunnect, a Brooklyn-based company, is testing a "quantum network," under the streets of New York.
Telegram founder arrested in France
Didn’t do enough to stop criminal posts
Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was apprehended at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after landing on a private jet late on Saturday and placed in custody.
A previously unspotted backdoor in Windows spotted
Things getting spotty
Symantec reports that a university in Taiwan has been breached by "a previously unseen Windows backdoor."
Compasses go Quantum
So the cats know which way to go
The United States Department of Energy Sandia National Laboratories has announced that "a milestone in quantum sensing is drawing closer, promising exquisitely accurate, GPS-free navigation," with research into "a motion sensor so precise it could minimise the nation's reliance on global positioning satellites."
AI is about to go nuclear
It is the way
According to CIO magazine, leading corporations such as Amazon and Microsoft " are going nuclear "to construct the colossal data centres required for generative AI.
AMD's latest Ryzen 9 9950X goes like the clappers on Linux
Ironically better on Intel's optimised Clear Linux distro
Phoronix’s Michael Larabel has conducted a series of benchmarks on AMD's latest Ryzen 9 9950X across various Linux distributions, revealing that the Zen 5 chip performs up to 16 per cent faster with Intel's optimised Clear Linux distro.
Artificial General Intelligence at least ten years away
Gartner’s soothsayers say it may never happen
Soothsayers and fortune tellers working for Gartner have consulted the entrails of a particularly fat ram and concluded that artificial general intelligence is at least a decade away if it ever happens.