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Why sexualisation of women by Grok’s GenAI is a data privacy issue

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When Labour MP Jess Asato first saw the fake images of herself circulating online, the experience was both unsettling and violating. The hyper-realistic deepfakes, created without her consent using xAI’s Grok platform, looked unmistakably like her – a digital theft of her identity. Now, she’s fighting back with a groundbreaking legal case that could reshape…

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‘As a 5090 owner, I can confirm the card comes with a default paranoia about bursting into flames’: new tool to prevent Nvidia GPU cable melts shows this controversy still rages on

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Someone made a tool for Asus Astral RTX 5080 and 5090 GPUsIt’s designed to prevent a melting connector, shutting down the PC before this happensThis third-party utility – and the response to it – shows the level of paranoia out there when it comes to this issueDo you have a high-end Nvidia Blackwell GPU, and…

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‘Makes me want to unplug every mic and speaker’: PC users panic as professional discovers speaker that can hack any PC over Bluetooth

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A cybersecurity researcher has discovered a major vulnerability in a popular PC speakerThe Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X speakers can reportedly be used to hack users’ PCs via BluetoothCreative won’t provide a patch as it’s not viewed as a vulnerability, but a temporary third-party fix is availableDiscovering potential PC vulnerabilities is undoubtedly of high importance…

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AMD’s new FSR 4 tech can offer big graphics gains, but there’s something PC gamers need to know

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AMD’s FSR 4 performance is slightly weaker than FSR 3, based on new FidelityFX SDK 2.0 demo testThe performance difference is only 5%, which isn’t significant, but can be at much lower frame rates or weaker GPUsFSR 4 may still be the best choice for RDNA 4 GPU usersAMD’s FSR upscaling technology has come a…

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16 Billion Logins Exposed In Mysterious, Gigantic Data Breach

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Researchers from Cybernews have stumbled upon what might be the second largest data breach in history. Containing over 16 billion username and password combinations, the newly found massive database is dwarfed only by a 2024 data breach that contained 26 billion logins. One might be tempted to think these databases contain old, irrelevant information. They…

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Nvidia tackles graphics processing unit hogging

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Nvidia has made its KAI Scheduler, a Kubernetes-native graphics processing unit (GPU) scheduling tool, available as open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. KAI Scheduler, which is part of the Nvidia Run:ai platform, is designed to manage artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on GPUs and central processing units (CPUs). According to Nvidia, KAI is able to…

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Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Apple, AWS, Azure, ChatGPT, Cloud, Git, GitHub, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, social media, Tech / By

Formed in 1975, Microsoft is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, having powered the personal computing revolution first with MS-DOS, and then with Windows. In the 1980s, it demonstrated – thanks to the IBM Project Chess, one of the first personal computers – that business computing could be accessed by anyone and wasn’t simply a task…

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Modders do what AMD can’t (or won’t) by adding FSR 4 support to more games

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AMD’s FSR 4 can now be used in more games that don’t have an official implementation, thanks to the Optiscaler modIt isn’t compatible with all games, as FSR 4 reportedly doesn’t support Vulkan yetPlayers may run into trouble using the mod in anti-cheat gamesThe reception to AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 series GPU launch was mixed…

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Why geopolitics risks global open source collaborations

6 minutes of reading / cloud-native, compliance, edge computing, Git, GitHub, Huawei, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By

Following the removal last week of Russian Linux kernel maintainers to comply with US policies, Linus Torvalds – the developer of the original Linux kernel – spoke about his concerns that there were lots of Russian trolls who could potentially infiltrate the Linux kernel. The decision to block the maintainers followed a compromise of the…

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AI becomes Microsoft’s fastest-growing business

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Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) business is set to hit an annual run rate for subscription renewals of $10bn. For the quarter that ended September 30, the company reported revenue of $65.6bn, up 16%. The Microsoft Cloud business posted revenue of $38.9bn, an increase of 22%, while its productivity and business processes business reported a 12%…

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