Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website.

Webcam art installation quickly descends into public Chatroulette

Doomed internet cesspits Omegle and Chatroulette should have been warning enough of what happens when a webcam is placed between random strangers, yet the Portal art project linking New York City to Dublin didn't last a week before being shut down.…

LLMs running on a dedicated card: The final frontier as hacker makes it so

Consider your wish for an AI digital assistant that runs locally and offline officially granted. Not by a major industry player, naturally – your personal data is too enticing – but by a guy on GitHub who built one to run on a Raspberry Pi. …

Another push for backup buyers uneasy about Broadcom buy

Data protection outfit Veeam has confirmed it is to add support for the open source virtualization platform Proxmox, bringing more backing behind the VMware alternative.…

Sutskever leaves behind mysterious message on next venture

Co-founder and Chief Scientist at OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, has announced he is leaving the company and posted a mysterious message about what might be next.…

While Tokyo pours billions into revitalizing chipmaking sector, it might want to check out the grid

Japan reckons it may need to generate 50 percent more electricity by 2050 because of growing local demand from chipmaking and datacenters running AI. The move follows a warning by DigitalBridge that it may run out of power within two years.…

Saturday's power failures toppled border-check system offline

A power outage affecting one of the IT systems used to process imports to the UK has caused delays to perishable goods crossing the border, which businesses have described as a "disaster."…

Multimodal models promise machines can do more – if you let them

In the future, "Google will do the Googling for you" – or so suggests Liz Reid, VP of search.…

The little computer that could gets ready for an IPO

Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an Initial Public Offering and today published figures showing just how important commercial customers have become to the company.…

'A series of large ocean waves caused by a sudden and powerful disturbance,' according to ChatGPT

International Monetary Fund managing director Dr Kristalina Georgieva has warned of a "tsunami" hitting the global labor market as businesses adopt AI technologies.…

Speedy storage for your Pi 5

The Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ has finally put in an appearance, allowing Pi 5 owners to connect M.2 M-key peripherals to their computers and take advantage of NVMe drives.…

PHEVs make a lot of sense for traditional automakers faced with battery-powered losses

Global passenger electric vehicle (EV) sales have continued to grow. However, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) sales have significantly increased year-on-year, leaving their battery-only counterparts trailing.…

It's not settled law. And it's going to mean trouble

Opinion  I've been writing software for almost half a century, and my recent experiences with AI suggest that developers may soon find ourselves in a very sticky situation.…

White House contends MineOne's equipment could be used to for surveillance and espionage

If you're a majority Chinese-owned company looking for cheap real estate in the US, you might want to steer clear of American missile silos and military bases.…

Plus: Google Chrome, Apple bugs also exploited in the wild

Happy May Patch Tuesday. We've got a lot of vendors joining this month's patchapalooza, which includes a handful of bugs that have been exploited — either in the wild or at Pwn2Own — and now fixed by Microsoft, Apple, Google and VMware.…

Agency is on the lookout for a Prince among men

The US Federal Communications Commission has named its first robocall gang, dubbing the crew "Royal Tiger," and detailed its operations in an attempt to encourage international action against the scammers.…

Promises 4.7x performance boost over its older silicon

I/O  Google blew the lid off its sixth tensor processing unit (TPU) codenamed Trillium, designed to support a new generation of bigger, more capable of large language and recommender models.…

Reports of collisions with stationary objects and failing to obey traffic laws

The US National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Monday opened an investigation into self-driving car maker Waymo following reports that its robocars have not been complying with traffic laws.…

More stringent rules led to staff to find more remote options

A study has found that return to office mandates resulted in a noteworthy number of senior employees leaving jobs at Microsoft, Apple, and SpaceX.…

More cores, more memory, more delays

ISC  Chip designer SiPearl has issued updated specs for its Rhea1 processor that will power Europe's first exascale system and is working with Samsung to integrate high-bandwidth memory (HBM) into its design.…

Chrome is getting an onboard artificial intelligence model that devs can query

Google's annual developer conference is still called Google I/O, though this year Google A/I would be equally apt.…