Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers
Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber.
Hot or Not Built the Internet We’re Still Swiping Through
The early website Hot or Not taught its users to rank people at scale. Twenty-six years later, dating apps are trying to escape the culture the site helped create.
Raspberry Pi gets jiggy with batch CM5 provisioning
Clamp, flash, repeat – no separate IO board or host computer required
Player builds working AI chatbot in vanilla Minecraft using 445K command blocks — clever approach shrank initial block count from over 1 million, requires no mods, plugins, or datapacks to work
Building neural networks in Minecraft using redstone is a relatively common pursuit, but a clever creator has worked around the limitations of command blocks' available math operations to implement an LLM in just 445,782 blocks, down from over a million in the initial implementation.
White House cuts data centers, batteries, and AR from the US critical technology list — post-quantum cryptography, integrated photonics, high entropy alloys among new additions
Appendix A of the 24-page document rewrites the federal Critical and Emerging Technologies list for the first time since February 2024.
Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro reach end of support in 2 months
Microsoft has reminded customers that systems running Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 24H2 will stop receiving updates in two months. [...]
Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot
Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive home, where she’d been isolated in a fifth-wheel trailer at the end of a seven-mile dirt road. She moved in with her older sister and taught herself to type on AOL Instant Messenger...
GitHub programmer ports playable Doom to DSLR camera with 3-inch TFT LCD display — Canon EOS 550D with open-source Magic Lantern firmware uses camera's button as controls, even plays sound
A developer posted their Doom port for the Canon EOS 550D on GitHub. The game uses the Magic Lantern firmware add-on to run on the camera, and uses various camera buttons to play the game directly from the SD card.
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
UK taxman discovers low code doesn't mean low cost with £657M awards
Those legacy systems won't fix themselves
CISA: Medusa ransomware hit over 500 critical infrastructure orgs
The FBI said Tuesday that the Medusa ransomware gang has breached more than 500 critical infrastructure organizations in the United States since June 2021. [...]
China reportedly allows ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 H200 chips
ByteDance and Tencent have received 10,000 H200 chips each, the Financial Times says, and other Chinese companies could follow.
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon
As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations
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Warren Spector, founding father of immersive sims, has retired from game development
The creator of Deus Ex is retiring.
Baidu says Chinese buyers want local AI chips due to ‘supply chain’ issues
It seems like Nvidia’s not getting back into the Middle Kingdom anytime soon
Australian hotel chain leaks guests’ PII after breach at third-party database operator
Unknown parties know where you stayed last summer, down under, across 120 Quest properties
Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance
Next-gen systems double per-chip performance while cramming 3x as many into a rack
Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice their dinner-plate-sized AI chips for every last drop of AI perf
Next-gen systems double per-chip performance while cramming 3x as many into a rack
OpenAI's overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security
Expanded multistage chain of thought monitoring makes frontier model work more expensive