Microsoft is announcing plans to make changes to Windows that will help CrowdStrike and other security vendors operate outside of the Windows kernel. The announcement stems from a Microsoft-hosted security summit earlier this week at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters, where it discussed changes to Windows in the wake of the disastrous CrowdStrike incident in… Read more
read more...Microsoft is building new Windows security features to prevent another CrowdStrike incident
By: The Verge
Bigger and cheaper SSDs are coming thanks to Samsung — chipmaker starts mass producing 280-layer QLC 9th generation V-NAND
By: Tom's Hardware
After launching its new V9 TLC NAND flash in April, Samsung announced the initial mass production of its bleeding-edge 9th generation V9 QLC flash memory. The more storage-spacious V9 flavor is being mass-produced in one-terabit models. Samsung revealed that its V9 QLC flash is taking advantage of Channel Hole Etching technology to achieve the highest layer… Read more
read more...Facebook and Instagram are making AI labels less prominent on edited content
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Meta is updating how it labels content on Instagram, Facebook, and Threads that has been edited or manipulated using generative AI. In an updated blog post, Meta announced that its “AI Info” tag will appear within a menu in the top-right corner of images and videos edited with AI — instead of directly beneath the… Read more
read more...Gemini’s chatty voice mode is out now for free on Android
By: The Verge
Gemini’s chatty voice mode is out now for free on Android / You can ask Gemini Live questions aloud and even interrupt its answers. By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Sep 12, 2024,… Read more
read more...Gocycle turns to crowdfunding after surviving ‘Bikeaggedon’
By: The Verge
Gocycle’s designer-in-chief Richard Thorpe is rebooting the e-bike company he founded more than two decades ago. Following a January restructuring to reduce overhead, Thorpe is now turning to crowdfunding to help launch a new series of F1-inspired e-bikes while also expanding into nonelectric foldables — a space currently dominated by Gocycle’s British compatriots Brompton. To drum… Read more
read more...Unity has eliminated its controversial runtime fee
By: The Verge
One year to the day since Unity announced its runtime fee pricing model, the software developer is canceling that program effective immediately. “After extensive consultation with our games community and customers, we’ve decided to cancel the Runtime Fee,” said Unity CEO Matt Bromberg in the blog post announcing the news. Instead of the runtime fee,… Read more
read more...Blacklisted Chinese AI GPU champ Biren preps for IPO at $2.19B valuation
By: Tom's Hardware
Biren Technology, a Chinese AI GPU developer that rivals Nvidia, has hired an investment bank to prepare itself for an initial public offering (IPO), reports South China Morning Post. Biren, valued at $2.19 billion last November, has been looking forward to an IPO for more than a year now, and it seems like the company is finally making steps… Read more
read more...Researchers built a molecular film that stores 16,384 states — the team used it to create an analog computer that works like a brain
By: Tom's Hardware
Graphene molecule (Image credit: Shutterstock) According to TechXplore, researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have successfully built a molecular film that stores 16,384 conductance states. It shows us a potential future where we go beyond the limits of classical binary and even up-and-coming quantum computing. To put things into context, binary computing has… Read more
read more...High-end Intel Z890 motherboards will support up to DDR5-9200 RAM — 64% higher than the rumored Arrow Lake native support for DDR5-5600
By: Tom's Hardware
Hardware detective momomo_us has shared the details of an upcoming ASRock Z890 motherboard for Intel’s Core Ultra 200 (codenamed Arrow Lake) processors. Although the model wasn’t mentioned, and some detailed specifications are still missing, there are still some interesting tidbits about the ASRock Z890 motherboard—with the most eyebrow-raising specification being its ability to handle overclocked DDR5 RAM… Read more
read more...OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities
By: The Verge
OpenAI is releasing a new model called o1, the first in a planned series of “reasoning” models that have been trained to answer more complex questions, faster than a human can. It’s being released alongside o1-mini, a smaller, cheaper version. And yes, if you’re steeped in AI rumors: this is, in fact, the extremely hyped… Read more
read more...Google unlists misleading Gemini video
By: The Verge
Google has unlisted an impressive Gemini demo video it posted last December that seemed remarkably conversational. BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Division (NAD), an ad industry watchdog, inquired whether the video “accurately depicts the performance of Gemini in responding to user voice and video prompts.” Google chose to end the inquiry by ending its promotion… Read more
read more...Apple gets FDA authorization to turn the AirPods Pro into hearing aids
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Just days after Apple announced a new hearing aid feature for the second-generation AirPods Pro, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the software that powers this functionality. In a press release, the FDA describes Apple’s solution as “the first over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aid software device.” The feature “was evaluated in a clinical… Read more
read more...This life-size Lego McLaren P1 can hit almost 40mph
By: The Verge
After releasing a 24-inch-long scale replica of the McLaren P1 earlier this year, Lego has now debuted a full-size drivable version of the hypercar built from over 342,817 Technic pieces and powered by hundreds of Lego electric motors. That eclipses the 3,893 pieces that go into building Lego’s 1:8-scale McLaren P1 model. The company says… Read more
read more...Apple iPhone 16
By: What HIFI?
Early Verdict As you might expect, there are a few upgrades in the latest iPhone 16 models compared to the iPhone 15 models, but while it was the Pro models that stood out in 2023, it’s the iPhone 16 models that offer the biggest differences this year. We will be spending much more time with… Read more
read more...Google Chrome makes it easier to opt out of annoying notifications on Android
By: The Verge
Google is expanding a Chrome safety feature to help you cancel pesky website notifications with a single tap. It’s already available on Pixels and is coming to more Android devices; adding a simple unsubscribe button in the notification so that you can get rid of websites you didn’t mean to subscribe to, like horoscopes or… Read more
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