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Smaller bills mean more fine-grained control over vastly different AI products

interview  The AI legislation roadmap published this week by a bipartisan group of US senators hasn't pleased everyone, but the Federal Trade Commission's former chief technologist believes it takes the perfect approach. …

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.…

The cars might be zero emission, but accusers claim the paint shops aren't

Tesla is facing a lawsuit brought under the US Clean Air Act by the Environmental Democracy Project (EDP) claiming pollution from its Fremont facility.…

Aviation firm has violated 2021 deferred prosecution agreement, claims DoJ, so criminal charges could come back

Boeing avoided prosecution for a pair of 737 Max crashes thanks to a 2021 agreement with the Department of Justice, but the DoJ says the jetmaker has since violated the order and can be prosecuted. …

One eye on Windows, the other winking at penguins

Qualcomm may be leading the push for Windows on Arm systems, but the corporation also has an eye on Linux support with a roadmap for updates to enable the OS to boot on its Arm-based PC hardware.…

It's not just EVs – semiconductors, batteries, and solar cells all hiked

The Biden administration's Chinese tariff hikes were formally announced on Tuesday including, among other items, a doubling on semiconductors and solar cells and a more than tripling on batteries.…

Distro formerly known as Zinc cuts the fat, rather than just replacing it

The latest version of Teejeetech's take on Ubuntu offers what many users wish Canonical did – natively packaged Firefox and the choice of whether to use Snap, Flatpak, or neither.…

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.…

'Who you gonna call?' Dunno, my phone's been stolen

British police officers are setting their phasers to stun in response to an explosion in scooter and electric bike-based crime.…

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.…