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China's Solar Giants Quietly Shed a Third of Their Workforces Last Year schwit1 shares a report: China's biggest solar firms shed nearly one-third of their workforces last year, company filings show, as one of the industries hand-picked by Beijing to drive economic growth grapples with falling prices and steep losses. The job cuts illustrate the pain from the vicious p...

China's Solar Giants Quietly Shed a Third of Their Workforces Last Year

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Digital Foundry, the Most Trusted Name in Game Console Analysis, is Going Independent Digital Foundry, the gaming hardware analysis publication known for its technical console breakdowns, has separated from IGN ownership as of today, with founder Richard Leadbetter purchasing the outlet and its complete archives. Leadbetter, who retained 50% ownership since selling half to Eurogamer ...

Digital Foundry, the Most Trusted Name in Game Console Analysis, is Going Independent

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US President Calls on Intel CEO To Resign Over China Ties President Trump on Thursday called on Intel's CEO to resign because of his past ties to China, the latest challenge for the troubled chip maker. From a report: "The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem," Trump wrote in a post on T...

US President Calls on Intel CEO To Resign Over China Ties

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Electronic Arts Tries (Once More) To End Its Football Addiction Electronic Arts faces a familiar challenge as it prepares to launch Battlefield 6 on October 10: breaking its dependence on the FIFA franchise, now called EA Sports FC, which drives roughly 70% of company profits despite disappointing sales this year. The company has poured unprecedented resources...

Electronic Arts Tries (Once More) To End Its Football Addiction

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PCIe 8.0 Announced With 256 GT/s For AI Workloads BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: PCI-SIG says PCI Express 8.0 will hit a raw bit rate of 256.0 GT/s, doubling what PCIe 7.0 offers. The spec is expected to be ready by 2028, and the goal is to support massive data loads from AI, machine learning, edge computing, and even quantum systems....

PCIe 8.0 Announced With 256 GT/s For AI Workloads

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New Work Achieves a Pure Quantum State Without the Need For Cooling alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Three nano-glass spheres cling to one another. They form a tower-like cluster, similar to when you pile three scoops of ice cream on top of one another -- only much smaller. The diameter of the nano cluster is ten times smaller than that of a human h...

New Work Achieves a Pure Quantum State Without the Need For Cooling

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Low Dose of Lithium Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms In Mice An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: People withAlzheimer's disease have lower levels of lithium in their brains, and giving lithium to mice with symptoms of the condition reverses cognitive decline. Together, the findings suggest that lithium deficiency could be a driver of Alzhe...

Low Dose of Lithium Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms In Mice

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Taiwan's High 20% Tariff Rate Linked To Intel Investment EreIamJH writes: German tech newsletter Notebookcheck is reporting that the unexpectedly high 20% tariff the U.S. recently imposed on Taiwan is intended to pressure TSMC to buy a 49% minority stake in Intel -- including an IP transfer and to spend $400 billion in the U.S., in addition to the $165 bi...

Taiwan's High 20% Tariff Rate Linked To Intel Investment

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'Facial Recognition Tech Mistook Me For Wanted Man' Bruce66423 shares a report from the BBC: A man who is bringing a High Court challenge against the Metropolitan Police after live facial recognition technology wrongly identified him as a suspect has described it as "stop and search on steroids." Shaun Thompson, 39, was stopped by police in February...

'Facial Recognition Tech Mistook Me For Wanted Man'

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Citizen Lab Director Warns Cyber Industry About US Authoritarian Descent An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism....

Citizen Lab Director Warns Cyber Industry About US Authoritarian Descent

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Trump, Apple To Announce New $100 Billion Commitment To Manufacturing in US President Trump and Apple are expected to announce a new $100 billion commitment by Apple to boost manufacturing in the U.S. CBS News: The new investment would increase Apple's commitment to U.S. manufacturing to $600 billion over the next four years, according to a White House official. And it's ex...

Trump, Apple To Announce New $100 Billion Commitment To Manufacturing in US

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Nvidia Rejects US Demand For Backdoors in AI Chips Nvidia's chief security officer has published a blog post insisting that its GPUs "do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors." From a report: It comes amid pressure from both sides of the Pacific, with some US lawmakers pushing Nvidia to grant the government backdoors to AI chips, while...

Nvidia Rejects US Demand For Backdoors in AI Chips

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Lyft Will Use Chinese Driverless Cars In Britain and Germany An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: China's automakers have teamed up with software companies togo global with their driverless cars, which are poised to claim a big share of a growing market as Western manufacturers are still preparing to compete. The industry in China is e...

Lyft Will Use Chinese Driverless Cars In Britain and Germany

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Meta Eavesdropped On Period-Tracker App's Users, Jury Rules A San Francisco jury ruled that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act by collecting sensitive data from users of the Flo period-tracking app without consent. "The plaintiff's lawyers who sued Meta are calling this a 'landmark' victory -- the tech company contends that the jury got it ...

Meta Eavesdropped On Period-Tracker App's Users, Jury Rules

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NASA Satellites That Scientists and Farmers Rely On May Be Destroyed On Purpose The Trump administration has reportedly directed NASA to draw up plans to shut down its Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite missions, which provide vital climate and agricultural data for scientists, oil and gas companies and farmers who need detailed information about carbon dioxide and crop heal...

NASA Satellites That Scientists and Farmers Rely On May Be Destroyed On Purpose

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RIP To the Macintosh HD Hard Drive Icon, 2000-2025 An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple released a new developer beta build of macOS 26 Tahoe today, and it came with another big update for a familiar icon. The old Macintosh HD hard drive icon, for years represented by a facsimile of an old spinning hard drive, has been replac...

RIP To the Macintosh HD Hard Drive Icon, 2000-2025

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Jim Acosta Interviews AI Version of Teenager Killed in Parkland Shooting Jim Acosta, the former CNN chief White House correspondent who now hosts an independent show on YouTube, has interviewed an AI-generated avatar of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver. The late teen's parents created the avatar to preserve his voice and advocate for gun reform. Oliver's parents "...

Jim Acosta Interviews AI Version of Teenager Killed in Parkland Shooting

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Perplexity Says Cloudflare's Accusations of 'Stealth' AI Scraping Are Based On Embarrassing Errors In a report published Monday, Cloudflare accused Perplexity of deploying undeclared web crawlers that masquerade as regular Chrome browsers to access content from websites that have explicitly blocked its official bots. Since then, Perplexity has publicly and loudly announced that Cloudflare's claim...

Perplexity Says Cloudflare's Accusations of 'Stealth' AI Scraping Are Based On Embarrassing Errors

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Swedish PM Under Fire For Using AI In Role Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has come under fire after admitting that he frequently uses AI tools like ChatGPT for second opinions on political matters. The Guardian reports: ... Kristersson, whose Moderate party leads Sweden's center-right coalition government, said he used tools includ...

Swedish PM Under Fire For Using AI In Role

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OpenAI Offers 20 Million User Chats In ChatGPT Lawsuit. NYT Wants 120 Million. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: OpenAI is preparing to raise what could be its final defense to stop The New York Times from digging through a spectacularly broad range of ChatGPT logs to hunt for any copyright-infringing outputs that could become the most damning evidence in ...

OpenAI Offers 20 Million User Chats In ChatGPT Lawsuit. NYT Wants 120 Million.

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AI Is Listening to Your Meetings. Watch What You Say. AI meeting transcription software is inadvertently sharing private conversations with all meeting participants through automated summaries. WSJ found a series of mishaps that people confirmed on-record. Digital marketing agency owner Tiffany Lewis discovered her "Nigerian prince" joke about a pote...

AI Is Listening to Your Meetings. Watch What You Say.

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Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google An anonymous reader shares a report: A researcher has scraped nearly 100,000 conversations from ChatGPT that users had set to share publicly and Google then indexed, creating a snapshot of all the sorts of things people are using OpenAI's chatbot for, and inadvertently exposing. 404 Media's testing ...

Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google

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Deadly Titan Submersible Implosion Was Preventable Disaster, Coast Guard Concludes The U.S. Coast Guard determined the implosion of the Titan submersible that killed five people while traveling to the wreckage of the Titanic was a preventable disaster caused by OceanGate Expeditions's inability to meet safety and engineering standards. WSJ: A 335-page report [PDF] detailing a two-...

Deadly Titan Submersible Implosion Was Preventable Disaster, Coast Guard Concludes

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An Illinois Bill Banning AI Therapy Has Been Signed Into Law An anonymous reader shares a report: In a landmark move, Illinois state lawmakers have passed a bill banning AI from acting as a standalone therapist and placing firm guardrails on how mental health professionals can use AI to support care. Governor JB Pritzker signed the bill into law on Aug. 1. ...

An Illinois Bill Banning AI Therapy Has Been Signed Into Law

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Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds For years, whistle-blowers have warned that fake results are sneaking into the scientific literature at an increasing pace. A new statistical analysis backs up the concern. From a report: A team of researchers found evidence of shady organizations churning out fake or low-quality studies on an indus...

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

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Man Controls iPad With His Mind Using Synchron Brain Implant BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Synchron has just released a public demo showing something that used to feel impossible. A man with ALS is now using his iPad with nothing but his brain. No hands. No voice. No eye-tracking. Just thought. The man in the video is named Mark. He's part of ...

Man Controls iPad With His Mind Using Synchron Brain Implant

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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Mission Ends In Disappointment NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ended prematurely after losing contact with the satellite just one day post-launch, the agency announced today. Engadget reports: The NASA satellite was part of the IM-2 mission by Intuitive Machines, which took off from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space C...

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Mission Ends In Disappointment

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US To Expedite Plan For Nuclear Reactor On the Moon An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, the first major action by the former Fox News host as the interim NASA administrator. NASA has discussed building a reactor on the lu...

US To Expedite Plan For Nuclear Reactor On the Moon

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Google Agrees To Pause AI Workloads To Protect the Grid When Power Demand Spikes Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday. From a report: The web giant already does this sort of thing for non-essential workloads like processing YouTube vids, which it moves to datacenters where power is available rather than co...

Google Agrees To Pause AI Workloads To Protect the Grid When Power Demand Spikes

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Disney Scrapped Deepfakes For Moana and Tron To Avoid 'Bad Publicity' Disney scrapped plans to use a deepfake of Dwayne Johnson in Moana and an AI-generated character in Tron: Ares due to concerns over bad publicity and legal ownership. Ultimately, the studio decided the potential PR and copyright risks weren't worth the convenience. Deadline reports: Disney is worki...

Disney Scrapped Deepfakes For Moana and Tron To Avoid 'Bad Publicity'

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