From Forbes: The Chinese spy balloon that was eventually shot down over the Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 4 after sailing over the continental U.S. was apparently blown off course and had a “self-destruct function” that wasn’t activated before reaching Alaska, according to a new report from the New York...

From PC Mag: Feel like ChatGPT is too tame with its answers? The program’s creator, OpenAI, is working on an upgrade that could unlock more personality and controversial takes from the popular chatbot.

“We believe that AI should be a useful tool for individual people, and thus customizable by each...

From PC World: Going by tech headlines alone, one might be forgiven for thinking older graphics cards drop off the planet once the new hardware hits shelves. But GPU makers tend to support several generations of cards at once with their monthly driver updates, improving performance across the board...

From ExtremeTech: Today, Intel is pulling the wraps off its newest lineup of Xeon processors bound for professional workstations. The company is announcing two product lines dubbed Xeon W-3400 and W-2400. The 3400 series are for “experts” and carry a TDP of 350W. The 2400 CPUs are labeled...

From The Verge: Twitter is back after an outage for many on Wednesday. The full extent of the issues was unclear, but the problems were centered on the iOS app. If I tried to refresh my “For you” feed, for example, I got a message that says “tweets aren’t loading right now.” My “Following” feed...

From TechCrunch: Companies hoping to dip into the coffers of the Biden administration’s $7.5 billion EV charging initiative will have to meet a new set of requirements that even Tesla has agreed to.

The Biden administration laid out Wednesday the final standards for its plan to build a national...

From Forbes: Elon Musk says he’ll probably step down as the CEO of Twitter after he finds someone to take the role by the end of 2023. But I wouldn’t bet on it.

Musk, who installed himself as CEO of Twitter when he bought the company in Oct. 2022, held a Twitter poll back in December asking if he...

From ExtremeTech: For as long as we can remember, the desktop-to-mobile GPU conversion math was pretty simple: The big chip goes in the desktop, and the smaller version goes in the laptop. That’s what Nvidia has been doing for years and is still doing. For example, its mobile RTX 4090 chip is the...

From PC Mag: Google Fiber's major speed upgrade has arrived with a 5 Gig service now available in a number of US cities.

Speed upgrades were teased back in September and then Google confirmed both 5 Gig and 8 Gig services would arrive in early 2023 a month later. Now the 5 Gig service is being made...

From The Verge: Apple plans to introduce its long-rumored mixed reality headset at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

The reveal date has apparently been pushed back multiple times — most recently, the aim was to first show it in the...