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OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says

OpenAI proposes massive data centers

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Enlarge (credit: Anadolu / Contributor | Anadolu ) OpenAI hopes to convince the White House to approve a sprawling plan that would place 5-gigawatt AI data centers in different US cities, Bloomberg reports . The AI company's CEO, Sam Altman, supposedly pitched the plan after a recent meeting with the Biden administration where stakeholders discussed AI infrastructure needs. Bloomberg reviewed an

Tesla Full Self Driving requires human intervention every 13 miles

Tesla FSD requires frequent driver intervention

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Enlarge / An independent automotive testing company has evaluated Tesla FSD, and it found some concerning results. (credit: PonyWang/Getty Images) Tesla's controversial "Full Self Driving" is now capable of some quite advanced driving. But that can breed undeserved complacency, according to independent testing. The partially automated driving system exhibited dangerous behavior that required huma

Meta’s $300 Quest 3S trades a worse display for a lower price

Meta Quest 3S leaks reveal details

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Enlarge / Meta's Mark Zuckerberg announces the Meta Quest 3 headset. (credit: Meta ) At a Connect conference keynote today, Meta officially unveiled the Quest 3S headset , a cheaper version of last year's Quest 3 . The new spin-off device will be available in stores Oct. 15 for a price starting at $300 (for 128GB of storage). That lower price for the Quest 3S comes with a few compromises compared

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Tailwinds don’t help “everesting” cyclists

Tailwind has minimal cycling impact

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Enlarge / Physicist Martin Bier in an aerodynamic tuck, a cycling position that reduces wind resistance. (credit: Martin Bier) Many avid bicyclists these days have hopped onto the "everesting" bandwagon, in which one rides up and down the same mountain route over and over until the total distance of one's ascents matches the elevation of Mount Everest : 8,848 meters or about 5.5 miles. Recently t

Google accuses Microsoft of antitrust violations over Azure cloud platform

Google files EU complaint against Microsoft

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Justin Sullivan ) Google has filed an antitrust complaint in Brussels against Microsoft, alleging its Big Tech rival engages in unfair cloud computing practices that has led to a reduction in choice and an increase in prices. The US search giant has accused Microsoft of leveraging its Windows software to lock customers into its Azure cloud services, preventing them

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Ghost of Yōtei: The acclaimed Ghost of Tsushima is getting a sequel

Ghost of Yōtei announced for 2025

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Sony's Ghost of Yōtei trailer. If you've been sleeping on the Akira Kurosawa-inspired, Assassin's Creed -esque samurai game Ghost of Tsushima , you've been missing out. Given that it recently got a PC release, this is a great time to catch up on it—but now there's even more reason to do so, as Sony just announced a sequel titled Ghost of Yōtei . Slated for a 2025 release, the game bears similarit

Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity

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ChatGPT vulnerability enables persistent spyware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported a vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to store false information and malicious instructions in a user’s long-term memory settings, OpenAI summarily closed the inquiry, labeling the flaw a safety issue, not, technically speaking, a security concern. So Rehberger did what all good researchers do:

Caroline Ellison gets 2 years for covering up Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX fraud

Ellison seeks lenient sentencing support

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Enlarge / Caroline Ellison, former chief executive officer of Alameda Research LLC, was sentenced Tuesday for helping Sam Bankman-Fried cover up FTX's fraudulent misuse of customer funds. (credit: Bloomberg / Contributor | Bloomberg ) Caroline Ellison was sentenced Tuesday to 24 months for her role in covering up Sam Bankman-Fried's rampant fraud at FTX—which caused billions in customer losses .

Terminator’s Cameron joins AI company behind controversial image generator

James Cameron joins Stability AI board

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Enlarge / Filmmaker James Cameron. (credit: James Cameron / Stability AI ) On Tuesday, Stability AI announced that renowned filmmaker James Cameron—of Terminator and Skynet fame—has joined its board of directors. Stability is best known for its pioneering but highly controversial Stable Diffusion series of AI image-synthesis models, first launched in 2022, which can generate images based on text

FBI: After dad allegedly tried to shoot Trump, son arrested for child porn

Ryan Routh's son arrested child porn

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Enlarge (credit: Alex Schmidt / Getty Images) Oran Routh has had an eventful few weeks. In August, he moved into a two-bed, two-bath rental unit on the second floor of a building in Greensboro, North Carolina. On September 15, his father, Ryan Routh, was found in the bushes of the sixth hole of Trump International Golf Club with a scope and a rifle, apparently in a bid to assassinate Donald Trump

In the room where it happened: When NASA nearly gave Boeing all the crew funding

NASA nearly funded Boeing exclusively

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Enlarge / But for a fateful meeting in the summer of 2014, Crew Dragon probably never would have happened. (credit: SpaceX) This is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of the book REENTRY: SpaceX, Elon Musk and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age by our own Eric Berger. The book will be published on September 24, 2024. This excerpt describes a fateful meeting 10 years ago at NASA Headqua

Calif. Governor vetoes bill requiring opt-out signals for sale of user data

Newsom vetoes universal data privacy bill

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Enlarge / California Governor Gavin Newsom at a press conference in San Francisco on September 19, 2024. (credit: Getty Images | Anadolu ) California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required makers of web browsers and mobile operating systems to let consumers send opt-out preference signals that could limit businesses' use of personal information. The bill approved by the State Le

Radiation should be able to deflect asteroids as large as 4 km across

Nuclear and X-ray methods deflect asteroids

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Enlarge / Sandia National Labs' Z machine in action. (credit: Randy Montoya ) The old joke about the dinosaurs going extinct because they didn't have a space program may be overselling the need for one. It turns out you can probably divert some of the more threatening asteroids with nothing more than the products of a nuclear weapons program. But it doesn't work the way you probably think it does

NASA is ready to start buying Vulcan rockets from United Launch Alliance

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Enlarge / The first stage of ULA's second Vulcan rocket was raised onto its launch platform August 11 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. (credit: United Launch Alliance ) United Launch Alliance is free to compete for NASA contracts with its new Vulcan rocket after a successful test flight earlier this year, ending a period where SpaceX was the only company competing for rights to lau

Car software patches are over 20% of recalls, study finds

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Software fixes are now responsible for more than 1 in 5 automotive recalls. That's the key finding from a decade's worth of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recall data, according to an analysis from the law firm DeMayo Law. While that's a sign of growing inconvenience for drivers, the silver lining is that a software patch is usually a much quicker fi

Broadcom responds to AT&T’s VMware support lawsuit: AT&T has “other options”

AT&T sues Broadcom over VMware exit

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Enlarge (credit: Getty ) Broadcom is accusing AT&T of trying to "rewind the clock and force" Broadcom "to sell support services for perpetual software licenses... that VMware has discontinued from its product line and to which AT&T has no contractual right to purchase.” The statement comes from legal documents Broadcom filed in response to AT&T's lawsuit against Broadcom for refusing to renew sup

PC modder removes annoying PSN account requirement for God of War Ragnarök

God of War Ragnarok PSN backlash

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Enlarge / Artist's conception of angry PC gamers launching an attack on PSN sign-in requirements. (credit: Sony) Sony's decision to require a PlayStation Network sign-in for the PC port of the single-player God of War Ragnarök is drawing expected levels of ire from frustrated PC gamers. Now, though, those angry players can actually do something about the problem thanks to a new mod that removes t

Kubuntu Focus Ir14 Gen 2 review: Using Linux instead of messing with it

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Enlarge / The Kubuntu Focus Ir14 Gen 2. (credit: Kevin Purdy) There are lots of laptops—maybe all of them—on which you can run a Linux desktop. There are a few vendors that offer laptops with extensive Linux compatibility. And then there are a select few that specialize in Linux laptops, support them, and even customize them. Kubuntu Focus is one of the select few. It sent me one of its laptops t

Huawei laptop teardown shows China’s steps toward tech self-sufficiency

Huawei laptop showcases China's tech

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Enlarge (credit: FT) China’s demand that the public sector step up use of domestic semiconductors can best be seen within Huawei’s Qingyun L540 laptop. The “safe and reliable” device features a self-designed processor and a Chinese-made operating system, having stripped out foreign-made components and software as much as possible. The computer, which is being snapped up by governments and state g

For the first time, Blue Origin has ignited an orbital rocket stage

Blue Origin's New Glenn passes test

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Enlarge / Blue Origin test fires the second stage of its New Glenn rocket. (credit: Blue Origin) Twenty days after it rolled out to Blue Origin's launch site in Florida, the second stage of the massive New Glenn rocket underwent a successful hot-fire test on Monday. The second stage—known as GS2 for Glenn stage 2—ignited for 15 seconds as part of the "risk reduction" hot-fire test, the company sa

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