BeauHD    Samantha Cole reports via Media: A Japan based online art platform is banning kink content for users based in the US and UK, as laws in these countries continue to tighten around sites that allow erotic content. Pixiv is an image gallery site where artists primarily share illustrations, manga,...

BeauHD    Hartley Charlton reports via MacRumors: Apple is said to be developing its own AI server processor using TSMC’s nm process, targeting mass production by the second half of . According to a post by the Weibo user known as Phone Chip Expert, Apple has ambitious plans to design its own...

BeauHD    Google is delaying the end of third party cookies in Chrome again. This marks the third time Google pushed back its original deadline set in January , when the company said it would phase out third party cookies within two years to improve internet security. Digiday reports: The...

BeauHD    An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Network security appliances like firewalls are meant to keep hackers out. Instead, digital intruders are increasingly targeting them as the weak link that lets them pillage the very systems those devices are meant to protect. In the case of one...

BeauHD    Axon on Tuesday announced a new tool called Draft One that uses artificial intelligence built on OpenAI’s GPT Turbo model to transcribe audio from body cameras and automatically turn it into a police report. Axon CEO Rick Smith told Forbes that police officers will then be able to review the...

BeauHD    Similar to the way Google makes its mobile OS Android open source, Meta announced it is opening up its Quest headset’s operating system to rival device makers. Reuters reports: The move will allow partner companies to build their headsets using Meta Horizon OS, a rebranded operating system that...

BeauHD    An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Two researchers at the University of California, Davis Yanning Li and Alan Jenn have determined that nearly two thirds of California’s feeder lines don’t have the capacity that will likely be needed for car charging. Updating to handle...

msmash    Lenovo’s latest ThinkPad P Gen laptop is set to be the first to use the new LPCAMM memory form factor, the successor to SODIMM sticks. From a report: While Lenovo has largely focused on the AI performance of its new laptop, which is equipped with an Intel Core Ultra CPU and Nvidia RTX Ada...

BeauHD    According to the Wall Street Journal, a deal for IBM to acquire HashiCorp could materialize in the next few days. Shares of HashiCorp jumped almost on the news. UPDATE : IBM has confirmed the deal valued at . billion. IBM will pay per share for HashiCorp, a . premium to...

msmash    Adobe researchers have developed a new generative AI model called VideoGigaGAN that can upscale blurry videos at up to eight times their original resolution. From a report: Introduced in a paper published on April th, Adobe claims VideoGigaGAN is superior to other Video Super Resolution VSR ...

msmash    Glance, which operates a popular lockscreen platform targeting Android smartphones, is setting its sights on the U.S. market. From a report: The Indian startup recently commenced a pilot program in partnership with Motorola and Verizon in the U.S., with plans for a full launch in the country later...

msmash    An anonymous reader shares a report: Early Access was once a novel, quirky thing, giving a select set of Steam PC games a way to involve enthusiastic fans in pre alpha level play testing and feedback. Now loads of games launch in various forms of Early Access, in a wide variety of readiness. It’s...

msmash    Just as Google, Samsung and Microsoft continue to push their efforts with generative AI on PCs and mobile devices, Apple is moving to join the party with OpenELM, a new family of open source large language models LLMs that can run entirely on a single device rather than having to connect to cloud...

msmash    Today, Framework is the modular repairable laptop company. Tomorrow, it wants to be a consumer electronics company, period. From a report: That’s one of the biggest reasons it just raised another million in funding it wants to expand beyond the laptop into additional product categories. ...

msmash    Edward Zitron, citing emails released as part of the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google, writes about Prabhakar Raghavan: And Raghavan a manager, hired by Sundar Pichai, a former McKinsey man and a manager by trade is an example of everything wrong with the tech industry....