IT News 11 months ago

Ex-ASML employee sentenced to three years' imprisonment for sharing company secrets with Russia - An ex-ASML employee has been sentenced to three years impri... -

Tom

Ex-ASML employee sentenced to three years

He accessed files beyond the scope of his employment for several years.

#semiconductors #manufacturing #techindustry

IT News 11 months ago

Grok’s Nazi tirade sparks debate: Who’s to blame when AI spews hate? - Antisemitic outbursts from the chatbot promoted by Elon Musk shows how AI companies often... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/11/grok-ai-elon-musk-antisemitism/

IT News 11 months ago

Ohio City Using AI-Equipped Garbage Trucks To Scan Your Trash, Scold You For Not Recycling - The city of Centerville, Ohio has deployed AI-enabled garbage trucks that scan res... -

Ohio City Using AI-Equipped Garbage Trucks To Scan Your Trash, Scold You For Not Recycling - Slashdot

The city of Centerville, Ohio has deployed AI-enabled garbage trucks that scan residents

#ai

IT News 11 months ago

Former reality TV star appointed NASA Interim Administrator - Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge? NASA has a new interim Administrator. US President ... -

theregister

Former reality TV star appointed NASA interim administrator

: Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge?

IT News 11 months ago

Won’t somebody care for the European children? Meta and Google put up their hands to help on the same day - Zuck backs a ‘digital majority age’ and Google open sources tech that might enforce it Go... -

theregister

Meta, Google, weigh in to Europe

: Zuck backs a ‘digital majority age’ and Google open sources tech that might enforce it

IT News 11 months ago

Ford CEO Predicts AI Could Eliminate Half of US White-Collar Jobs - Ford CEO Jim Farley believes half of all white-collar workers in the U.S. could lo... -

Ford CEO Predicts AI Could Eliminate Half of US White-Collar Jobs - Slashdot

Ford CEO Jim Farley believes half of all white-collar workers in the U.S. could lose their jobs to AI in the coming years, he said. He joins other ...

#ai

IT News 11 months ago

German charity refuses to comply with Bitcoin ransomware demand — hackers attempt to extort hunger-fighting group for over $2 million - A German hunger-fighting charity is on the hook for some $2... -

Tom

German charity refuses to comply with Bitcoin ransomware demand — hackers attempt to extort hunger-fighting group for over $2 million

The group says they won

#cybersecurity #techindustry

IT News 11 months ago

Arm muscles into server market – but can't wrestle control from x86 just yet - Server shipments surge 70% in 2025, still shy of datacenter dominance goal Arm-based serv... -

theregister

Arm-based servers to grow 70% this year

: Server shipments surge 70% in 2025, still shy of datacenter dominance goal

IT News 11 months ago

Ancient SoundBlaster Cards Just Got A Driver Update - Old hardware tends to get less support as the years go by, from both manufacturers... -

Hackaday

Ancient SoundBlaster Cards Just Got A Driver Update

Old hardware tends to get less support as the years go by, from both manufacturers and the open-source community alike. And yet, every now and then...

#soundblaster #linuxhacks #creative #awe32 #linux

IT News 11 months ago

PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation - The W3C updated PNG to make it work with HDR content, and i... -

Tom

PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation

The demand for subtitles in HDR content led to this update.

#software

IT News 0 years ago

Games Run Faster On SteamOS Than Windows 11, Ars Testing Finds - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nearly a decade ago, Ars te... -

Games Run Faster On SteamOS Than Windows 11, Ars Testing Finds - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nearly a decade ago, Ars testing found that Valve

#windows

IT News 1 year ago

Casino Lights Could Be Warping Your Brain To Take Risks, Scientists Warn - ScienceAlert reports: Casino lighting could be nudging gamblers to be more reckl... -

Casino Lights Could Be Warping Your Brain To Take Risks, Scientists Warn - Slashdot

ScienceAlert reports: Casino lighting could be nudging gamblers to be more reckless with their money, according to a new study, which found a link...

#science

IT News 1 year ago

Massive DDoS attack delivered 37.4TB in 45 seconds, equivalent to 10,000 HD movies, to one victim IP address — Cloudflare blocks largest cyber assault ever recorded - Cloudflare says that it blocked the 7.3 Tbps of junk traffi... -

Tom

Massive DDoS attack delivered 37.4TB in 45 seconds, equivalent to 10,000 HD movies, to one victim IP address — Cloudflare blocks largest cyber assault ever recorded

This is the largest DDoS attack ever on record, so far.

#cybersecurity #techindustry

IT News 1 year ago

SoftBank's Son Pitches $1 Trillion Arizona AI Hub - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi... -

SoftBank

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is envisaging setting up a $1 trillion industrial complex in...

#business

IT News 1 year ago

The 16-Billion-Record Data Breach That No One's Ever Heard of - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cybernews: Several collections of login c... -

The 16-Billion-Record Data Breach That No One

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cybernews: Several collections of login credentials reveal one of the largest data breaches in history, to...

#security

IT News 1 year ago

Trump to extend US TikTok ban deadline, White House says - The app was supposed to be banned in the US after its Chinese owner refused to sell it by... -

Donald Trump to extend US TikTok ban deadline, White House says

The app was supposed to be banned in the US after its Chinese owner refused to sell it by a January deadline.

IT News 1 year ago

'Firefox Is Dead To Me' - Veteran columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols declared that Firefox was "dead" to hi... -

'Firefox Is Dead To Me' - Slashdot

Veteran columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols declared that Firefox was "dead" to him in a scathing opinion piece Tuesday that cites Mozilla

#firefox

IT News 1 year ago

Why Ukraine is one of the world's most digital countries - Despite the war, Ukraine has developed of the most advanced systems for digital governmen... -

Ukraine: Why it has one of the most digital governments

Despite the war, Ukraine has developed of the most advanced systems for digital government services.

IT News 1 year ago

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web - As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/11/tollbit-ai-bot-retrieval/

IT News 1 year ago

This A.I. Company Wants to Take Your Job - Mechanize, a San Francisco start-up, is building artificial intelligence tools to automat... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/technology/ai-mechanize-jobs.html #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #laborandjobs #mechanizeai #start-ups #googleinc