Energy Firms Try to Squeeze More Power Out of Old Nuclear Plants
It takes a long time to build new nuclear plants. So, some U.S. companies are looking to get more electricity out of reactors that already
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Tech jobs decline as US hit with rising costs and economic instability
A number of studies reported a decline in tech jobs in September as the US continues to get squeezed by geopolitical and economic instability. Tech
Windows 11 gains ground as price hike looms for Windows 10 security updates
According to new figures from Statcounter, Windows 11 continues to gain users at the expense of Windows 10. The newer operating system is now estimated
Drones sink ships near NATO countries in “unacceptable” attacks, EU says
Drones sank two cargo ships and damaged a third in the exclusive economic zones of NATO member countries for the first time, killing at least
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU
OpenAI will begin automatically watermarking text generated with ChatGPT in the European Union, the company has announced. It will also offer the watermarking feature in
Sierra announces Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for personal AI agents
Sierra and Meta are developing Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard defining how personal AI agents authenticate with businesses and what those businesses let them
Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for devices
Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open 740-million-parameter model that maps text, code, images, audio and video into a single space and runs entirely on
Mixed Human Feelings After a Day at a Park Full of Robots
I went to Galaxy Robot Park in Seoul to see how we might one day live with robots. It was part cutting-edge technology, part theatrics.
AMD’s chief says demand is outrunning supply, and that AI should police itself
AMD’s Lisa Su said chip demand is running ahead of supply and will stay very high for years, and urged the AI industry to work
Hark debuts an AI agent a year before its first devices
Brett Adcock’s Hark has released Hark Pro, an agent that buys groceries, books cars, pays bills and refills a child’s lunch card, free with $20
Spiko raises a $90M Series B led by NEA for its tokenised cash funds
Spiko, a Paris and London company that issues tokenised cash funds, has taken its total funding to $120 million, it said in a statement on
Asos app users get an alert claiming its Snowflake instance was compromised
Asos app users in the UK got a push notification on Tuesday morning in which the senders claimed to have fully compromised the online fashion
Apple’s AI privacy trick could be the compromise the EU needs
When it comes to consumer protections, Europe is following its own path. That may be visible in its quixotic-seeming decisions that allegedly prevent Apple from introducing
How to build a ‘safe-to-fail’ culture for IT teams — and why you should
Companies continue to invest in AI, automation, developer tools, and other new technologies. But they may not get the results they expect if IT workers