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RDNA 4 makes workstation debut with 32GB R9700

Computex  AMD aims to extend its lead over Intel in the high-end desktop (HEDT) and workstation arenas with its 9000-series Threadripper workstation CPUs teased at Computex this week.…

Republican defense of states' rights doesn't apply to curtailing LLMs, apparently

State attorneys general and activists are sounding the alarm over a provision of President Trump's budget proposal, which passed out of committee over the weekend and is headed to the House for a potential vote that would strip states of the ability to regulate AI. …

Agitprop? Protest? An attempt to suck up to the boss?

Elon Musk's xAI has apologized after its Grok generative chat-bot started spouting baseless conspiracy theories about White genocide in response to unrelated questions.…

Creative Cloud Pro arrives with more AI, higher prices, and a familiar feeling of déjà vu

New generative AI products mean new higher prices for individual Adobe Creative Cloud customers, unless they downgrade to a version with fewer features.…

Update before that proof-of-concept comes to bite

Security researchers are sounding the alarm over a fresh flaw in the JavaScript implementation of OpenPGP (OpenPGP.js) that allows both signed and encrypted messages to be spoofed.…

Urges world leaders to pay attention because he’s already building factories in which GenAI is acing scutwork

Computex  Foxconn chairman Young Liu has predicted the combination of generative AI and robotics will destroy low-end manufacturing jobs and called on world leaders to recognize inevitable geopolitical shifts that will follow.…

Cybercriminals lifted info including addresses, ID numbers, and financial records from agency systems

A "significant amount of personal data" belonging to legal aid applicants dating back to 2010 in the UK was stolen by cybercriminals, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed today.…

Say something nice? At least France has nuclear power, though its grid needs work

Europe's largest AI datacenter campus is to be built near Paris in France, according to blueprints released by a joint venture formed by Nvidia, Mistral AI, the French national investment bank, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) investment fund MGX.…

I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further

The union representing American actors has complained about Llama Production, which is owned by Epic Games, over the use of generative AI in a new character for Fortnite.…

Fast, compact, useful? Who are you, and what did you do with Windows?

Build  Microsoft has brought back an old favorite to the Windows command line interface: Edit, a text editor harking back to the halcyon days of DOS and text mode applications.…

Peter Green Chilled supplies all the major UK chains

It's more bad news for UK supermarkets with chilled and frozen food distribution business Peter Green Chilled confirming a ransomware attack with customers.…

Behold ‘Project Battlematrix’

Computex  When it comes to AI accelerators, Intel isn't very competitive, and its newly announced Battlemage workstation cards don't do much to change that. But at least they're cheap. Really cheap.…

Even well-optimized models only likely to use 35 to 45% of compute the silicon can deliver

GPU accelerators used in AI processing are costly items, so making sure you get the best usage out of them ought to be a priority, yet the industry lacks an effective way of measuring this, says the Uptime Institute.…

DownDetector reported problems for about 6 hours

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) experienced an outage in Europe earlier today, according to users and online metrics.…

There’s something wrong with keyboard design, but we can’t put our finger on it

Opinion  Linus Torvalds is the global hero most of the world doesn't even know exists. There are no big movies about him, no best-selling biographies, no ardent Torvaldian cultists with home altars and gilded icons. At least, we hope not.…

Researcher finds VoLTE metadata could be used to locate users within 100 meters

UK telco Virgin Media O2 has fixed an issue with its 4G Calling feature that allowed users' general location to be discerned by those who called them.…

Because nobody wants a random and unverified bot tickling their APIs

To unify the proliferating set of would-be standards to govern AI agents, researchers have proposed yet another standard.…

Fine-print is vague and broad, could easily be abused to blunt protected speech

President Donald Trump officially signed Monday the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a bill to criminalize revenge porn - both real and AI-generated. But internet rights groups have repeatedly warned the law is overly broad and vague, and could be used to order the takedown of protected speech.…

800-watt demo breaks distance record for optical energy transmission

Wireless power transmission is moving from lab curiosity toward real-world utility, at least if the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's latest test is any indication.…

PLUS: South Korea signs for massive supercomputer; HCL gets into chipmaking; US tariffs slow APAC tech buying; and more

Asia In Brief  Chinese company Guoxing Aerospace last launched a dozen satellites, each packing a 744 TOPS of computing power, in the first step towards creating an orbiting constellation of 2,800 such satellites.…