
AI
Procter & Gamble study finds AI could help make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette
: Go on, then, knock yourself out, pal (17:09 | register)

Billions pour into AI as emissions rise, returns stay pitiful, say Stanford boffins
: Models get bulkier, burnier, bank-breakier (17:09 | register)

Southern Water uses Capita's AI tool to flush customer complaints
: Hang on, wasn't Capita already handling things like billing, etc? Ah, AgentSuite comes to the rescue (14:21 | register)

Self-driving car maker Musk's DOGE rocks up at self-driving car watchdog, cuts staff
: Under-audit political squad also said to be drafting invoices for Uncle Sam (08:54 | register)

Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block
Vision: Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder (08:54 | register)

Nvidias AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensens GPU math mistake
Comment: Old naming convention didn't just 'screw up' the NVLink nomenclature - it left money on the table (03:28 | register)

Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?
: Redmond talks up preview of AI agents navigating apps through the UI (03:28 | register)

Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition
: Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer (00:48 | register)

OpenAI slams 'sham' takeover bid by wannabe 'AGI dictator' Musk in countersuit
: Billionaire 'tried every tool to harm us', says super lab, and it wants judge to end 'harassment' (00:48 | register)

Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana
: Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing' (Tegnap | register)

First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales
World War Fee: Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible? (Tegnap | register)

Dont ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?
Recent research suggests our brain power is in decline. Is offloading our cognitive work to AI driving this trend? (Tegnap | guardiantech)

Alan Turing Institute: UK can't handle a fight against AI-enabled crims
: Law enforcement facing huge gap in 'AI adoption' (Tegnap | register)

OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?
: Practical matters like being 1 of most expensive energy regions in Europe focuses minds at AI Energy Council meeting (Tegnap | register)

Generative AI app goes dark after child-like deepfakes found in open S3 bucket
: Producing this stuff is bad enough, but d'ya really have to leave all of it on the web for anyone to find? (Tegnap | register)

Meta debuts its first 'mixture of experts' models from the Llama 4 herd
: Says theyre done right as they dont lean so far left (Tegnap | register)

Meta's AI, built on ill-gotten content, can probably build a digital you
Column: Llama 4 Scout is just the right size to ingest a lifetime of Facebook and Insta posts (Tegnap | register)

Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we'll train our AI on made-up emails
: It's LLMs all the way down (Tegnap | register)

Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in
Cloud Next: Customers aren't sure, economy isn't great, tech looks cute, though (Tegnap | register)

Founder of facial-rec controversy biz Clearview AI booted from board
: From wanting to weed out far-Left, anti-Trump migrants to amassing a huge database of internet photos (Tegnap | register)

Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted
: Just us or is AI increasingly appearing like an unwanted party guest? (Tegnap | register)

Mediatek wants to make Chromebooks more like Copilot+ PCs
: Arm-based silicon to help Google hardware muscle in on territory of Microsoft's own Arm-based PCs (Pén. | register)

Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI
: Using LLMs to pick programs, people, contracts to cut is bad enough but doing it with Musk's Grok? Yikes (Pén. | register)

Global datacenter electricity use to double by 2030, say policy wonks. Yup, it's AI
Analysis: No worries, just use neural networks to optimize systems powering neural networks (Pén. | register)

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting' (Pén. | register)

On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over Cool Britannia
Opinion: Think tank report backs data mining for machine learning, leaving artists and rights holders behind (Pén. | register)

OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isnt waiting for permission
: GPT-4o likely trained on OReilly books without permission, figures appear to show (Pén. | register)

Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden
: Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune (Pén. | register)

Nvidia joins made-in-America party, hopes to flog $500B in homegrown AI supers by 2029
: Blackwell production already underway in Arizona with server manufacturing coming to Texas within 15 months (Pén. | register)

Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months
Updated: Users, unsurprisingly, are not pleased and feel forgotten amid Redmond's Copilot frenzy (Pén. | register onprem)

Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank
: Did Facebook giant rizz up LLM to win over human voters? It appears so (Pén. | register)

Windsurf: OpenAIs potential $3B bet to drive the vibe coding movement
A Windsurf deal would allow OpenAI to own more of the full-stack coding experience (and it would be its most expensive acquisition to date). (Pén. | venturebeat)

SEOFOMO Survey Shows How Ecommerce SEOs Use AI In 2025
Survey shows how AI is transforming ecommerce workflows with meaningful gains in content generation, conversion optimization, and SEO (Pén. | searchenginejournal)

Egy skót nő ChatGPT-vel mentette meg a családi költségvetést
A mesterséges intelligencia segítségével 10 perc alatt csökkentette háztartási kiadásait. (Csü. | Origo)

$25 software kits to steal your personal details are freely on sale on dark web here's how to remain safe
Cut-price phishing-as-a-service is a worrying new trend

What is the release date and time for Star Wars: Andor season 2 episodes 1 to 3 on Disney+?
Andor season 2

We just got a big hint that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7 are on schedule
But what about the tri-fold?

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says we should reframe how we think about AI
How can governments, companies and workers create a more positive environment?

Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes
: Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us

5 questions to ask Gemini today for an instant life upgrade
Get AI to help you make daily improvements

Outer Banks season 5: everything we know so far about the Netflix teen drama's return
The creators of the fifth and final season say

I finally found a use for Camera Control on my iPhone 16 Pro Max, but in the weirdest way possible
Back snaps

Want to build an AI strategy? Adobe SVP advises you start with transparency
Start with transparency and honesty, and the rest will follow

Sniper Elite 4 is a mini marvel on the iPhone 16 Pro
A promising sign for serious gaming on iOS

Digital data decluttering could save you hundreds of dollars every year: here's how you can do it
People are spending a fortune on digital storage rather than hitting delete

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades
: Intune policies turn out to be mere suggestions

This 18-inch mobile workstation is probably the fastest laptop in the world right now with up to 256GB RAM and an RTX 5090GPU
Schenker Key 18 Pro isn

YouTube Music listeners are getting a very handy new volume control
Consistent volume for the people

Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, April 20 (game #1182)
My clues will help you solve Quordle today and keep that streak going

Daredevil: Born Again season 2 everything we know so far about the popular Marvel TV show's return on Disney+
Daredevil: Born Again season 2 could be released sometime in 2026

In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield
: Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns

I won't put my relationships online again, says Lilly Sabri
The influencer explains how she rebuilt her life after a podcast implicated her fiancé had had an affair.

AI dolls are taking over - but real artists are sick of them
Artists hit back on social media to warn artificial intelligence may be endangering their livelihoods.

IPVanish's malware protection confirmed among the best on the market
VIPRE Advanced Security received the highest rating in the latest AV-Comparatives

Designed in US, made in China: Why Apple is stuck
China sits at the heart of Apple's supply chain - and has benefited hugely from it. Can they break up?

Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips
World War Fee: There's a new tariff in town

From catch up to catch us: How Google quietly took the lead in enterprise AI
Google has surged ahead in the enterprise AI race after perceived stumbles. VentureBeat details the Gemini models, TPU advantage & agent ecosystem driving its turnaround.

Samsung's latest smartphone has a very simple feature that no other Samsung phone offers right now
Samsung Galaxy XCover7 Pro is built tough for difficult environments

You freak out when battery life hits 38%, but here's how to extend it and calm the heck down
A new report puts our smartphone battery concerns in perspective

Ryan Gosling is joining the Star Wars universe as an all-new character in 'Starfighter'
The film will hit theaters in 2026 and was announced at Star Wars Celebration 2025

Nintendo reschedules Switch 2 American pre-orders for April 24
Nintendo has set a new date for Switch 2 pre-orders in the U.S., and while the console won't be more expensive, some accessories will be.

Japanese tech giant claims to offer data transmission solution 10x faster than current technologies to tackle AI speed bottleneck
TDK retools MTJ technology to overcome AIs growing data bottleneck crisis

No Nvidia? No problem - Huawei debuts AI system that's apparently faster than the market leader, the GB200 NVL72
CloudMatrix 384 Supernode described as a

Everything leaving Hulu in May 2025
Say goodbye to a lot of documentary movies

State-sponsored actors spotted using ClickFix hacking tool developed by criminals
Iranians, Russians, and North Koreans all using ClickFix

Andor season 2 cast and character guide: who's who in the highly-rated Star Wars TV show's final chapter?
The revolution will continue to be televised in Andor season 2

NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, April 19 (game #412)
My clues will help you solve the NYT

NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, April 19 (game #678)
My clues will help you solve the NYT

Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders will start in the United States on April 24, and the price is not increasing
The console isn

How to become an intrapreneur in AI headwinds
Intrapreneurs thrive by mastering AI, driving innovation, and adapting fast

Super apps deserve a second chance
What could make super apps viable? Probably super AI agents

From novelty to nuisance: The AI revolution no one wanted is sweeping all before it
Would you like some AI with that?

IBM orders workers back to the office, or face the consequences
IBM workers told to come back to the office

This Tie Fighter stand for the Echo Dot lets your Alexa smart speaker join the dark side
Plus, more items from Star Wars Celebration 2025 are dropping on Amazon

Everything new on Hulu in May 2025 stream my favorite Pamela Anderson movie, celebrate Star Wars Day with the original trilogy and more
Pamela Anderson, I

HP agrees million-dollar settlement over "false advertising" on PCs, keyboards
HP will pay $4 million settlement

A critical Erlang/OTP security flaw is "surprisingly easy" to exploit, experts warn - so patch now
There is a 10/10 bug in the library that can trigger RCE

The iPhone 16 Pro Max helped me see with a little help from the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
Zooming is believing

Yellowjackets season 3 finale made me shocked, surprised and sad here are 3 things you may have missed
The finale was shocking, surprising and sad. What else might it be telling us?

The engineer's guide to staying ahead of cyber threats
A guide for engineers to stay ahead of cyber threats

British businesses are getting used to AI at work - but there are still plenty of hurdles to overcome
AI has evolved from experimentation, but the same challenges remain, experts warn

Nvidia: The AI chip giant caught between US and China
Led by Jensen Huang, dubbed the 'Taylor Swift of tech', the chip giant has become pivotal in the race for AI supremacy.

Leaked Razr Plus 2025 specs may have revealed everything about Motorola's next flip foldable
A respectable upgrade

South Korea reports tech exports surged ahead of Trump tariffs
: Meanwhile in China, factories that work for Apple and HP are reportedly closing some production lines

What is the release date and launch time for The Last of Us season 2 episode 2?
Chart a course for season 2

AI in the workplace: why upskilling, not fear, is the key to AI collaboration
Upskilling employees to better work alongside AI

IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices
Exclusive: 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

You don't have to pay for Google Gemini to comment on what you're looking at on your phone anymore
But only if you have an Android

Meta is set to train its AI models with Europeans' public data, and you can stop it doing so
Public posts and users

Resellers may be sitting on costly pile of regret after US smartphone shopping spree
: Q1 sector growth unlikely to survive current trade policy

Intel flogs off majority stake in Altera to private equity for $4B
: Buy high, sell low: FPGA biz cost x86 giant $16B decade ago

Google wins 1-1: Judge rules ad giant broke some antitrust law
: After battle with Uncle Sam over online competition, web giant vows to appeal the bit it lost, celebrates the half it won

New method lets DeepSeek and other models answer sensitive questions
Enterprise risk company CTGT said their method cuts bias and censorship in models like DeepSeek.

BigQuery is 5x bigger than Snowflake and Databricks: What Google is doing to make it even better
Google ramps up the competition in the enterprise data space claiming its AI innovation help it to leapfrog rivals.

The Mario Kart World Direct didnt justify the $80 price, but maybe it didnt need to?
Nobody wants to hear it, but maybe it's fine that games cost a little more now.

Google has illegal advertising monopoly, judge rules
It is the second major case Google has lost in a year, after it was found to have a monopoly on online search.
