I was talking to a friend, and he mentioned how he did not listen to music. As such, our whole group was looking for songs to recommend to him. It took me a while to wrap my head around this because of how often I do enjoy music. When I was growing up, I learned to play different instruments, and was in band throughout high school. Even nowadays when I am not playing an instrument, I usually have something playing in the background. However, I...
From TechCrunch: In one of the most groundbreaking deals the streaming world has ever seen, Netflix announced on Friday its acquisition of Warner Bros. with an enterprise value of $82.7 billion.
This agreement involves both HBO Max and the HBO studio, marking one of the largest mergers in...
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Elon Musk's social media site X, formerly Twitter, is under fire in the EU following a two-year investigation into the platform's practices. On Friday, the European Commission slapped the company with a 120 million euro ($140 million) fine for...
From eWeek: In all honesty, this AI development looks interesting… and long overdue.
OpenAI has introduced a new training technique that encourages advanced language models to explicitly admit when they break rules, cut corners, or “reward hack” during tasks.
The approach, described as a proof-of...
From The Verge: The New York Times has escalated its legal battle against the AI startup Perplexity, as it’s now suing the AI “answer engine” for allegedly producing and profiting from responses that are “verbatim or substantially similar copies” of the publication’s work.
The lawsuit, filed in a...
From PC Mag: Asus is reporting that one of its suppliers was hacked after a ransomware group claimed to have stolen over 1TB from the company.
Asus didn’t name the supplier, but indicated it had lost some company data to the attackers. “This affected some of the camera source code for ASUS phones...
From Tom's Hardware: Intel this week reiterated that it cannot meet demand for all of its client and data center processors due to insufficient supply, and specifically mentioned that it could use more Core Ultra 200-series Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake wafers to increase shipments of appropriate...
From PC Mag: As SpaceX’s Starlink reaches deals with airlines to provide in-flight Wi-Fi, the company’s competition in China is starting to do the same.
The rival Chinese satellite constellation, Qianfan, is becoming an option to power in-flight Wi-Fi over Airbus jets. On Thursday, Qianfan’s...
From ExtremeTech: Sony has quietly updated its PlayStation 5 Slim with a grooved heatsink design borrowed directly from the PlayStation 5 Pro, console modder Modyfikator89 shared via X this weekend. The new models, starting with the CFI-2116 revision, now feature precision-machined grooves around...
From Tom's Hardware: SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son has been in talks with the Trump administration to build Project Crystal Land, Son’s grand vision for a U.S. competitor to Shenzhen, China’s electronics manufacturing hub, with a population of over 17.5 million people, often dubbed as China’s Silicon...
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