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An anonymous reader shares a report: Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar explosions are known, that occurred when a massive star tried to swallow a black hole with which it had engaged in a lengthy pas de deux.
The star, which was at least 10 times as massive as our sun, and the black hole, which had a similar mass, were gravitationally bound to one another in what is call
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Apple today announced the next-generation iPad Pro, featuring the M5 chip. The M5 chip features a next-generation GPU with Neural Accelerator in each core, allowing the new iPad Pro to deliver up to 3.5x the AI performance than the previous model. Apple says that performance gains and breakthrough improvements over iPads with the M1 chip are "staggering". In addition to the M5 chip, the cellular versions of the new iPad... Read more ›
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He also thinks the AI bubble burst is going to make 2008 feel like "a golden age." Read more ›
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When liberals denounce Donald Trump’s authoritarianism, they often cast his immigration agenda as a case in point. Back in June, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee decried the president’s “mass deportation operations” as the “stepping stone” to his “radical attempts to seize absolute power.” In the same statement, they condemned the administration’s deportation of noncriminal […] Read more ›
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Pallets of RTX 5090 GPUs from MSI had been spotted on Reddit a few days ago, sparking concern and curiosity over export controls. The White House has barred China from receiving most high-end GPUs, so these cards arrived via illegal channels, as MSI clarifies and denies any involvement in a press release. Read more ›
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Apple today introduced a new 14-inch MacBook Pro base model with an M5 chip. The new 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 chip is available to pre-order starting today, and it will begin arriving to customers and launch in stores on Wednesday, October 22. In the U.S., pricing starts at $1,599, for a configuration with 512GB of storage and 16GB of RAM. Today's announcement does not include higher-end 14-inch and... Read more ›
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Though central Turin is full of grand Baroque architecture and is said to be Italy's most elegant city, it didn't live up to my expectations. Read more ›
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Microsoft, Nvidia, and xAI partner with asset management firm BlackRock under AIP to make massive investments in data center infrastructure. Read more ›
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Apple today updated its Vision Pro headset with its next-generation M5 chip and a more comfortable Dual Knit Band. The updated Vision Pro is available to pre-order starting today, and it will begin arriving to customers and launch in stores on Wednesday, October 22. More details to follow.Related Roundup: Apple Vision ProBuyer's Guide: Vision Pro (Don't Buy)Related Forum: Apple Vision ProThis article, "Apple Updates Vision Pro With M5 Chip and... Read more ›
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Target market for Erebor will be businesses that are part of America’s ‘innovation economy’ Read more ›
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Apple today announced the M5 chip, its next-generation chip for the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro. From Apple's press release: Built using third-generation 3-nanometer technology, M5 introduces a next-generation 10-core GPU architecture with a Neural Accelerator in each core, enabling GPU-based AI workloads to run dramatically faster. The GPU also offers enhanced graphics capabilities and third-generation ray tracing that combined deliver a graphics performance that is up to... Read more ›
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The 11,500-square-foot property, built in the Gilded Age Beaux-Arts style, has seven floors, including a cellar and a roof. Read more ›
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Apple today released a new version of the Magic Keyboard for iPad Air in black. Previously, the Magic Keyboard for iPad Air was only available in white. It is based on the older Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro and iPad Air, which was available in both black and white, and was replaced by a redesigned version with a aluminum top case, backlighting, and a trackpad with haptic feedback last... Read more ›
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The new 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip does not include a charger in the box in European countries, including the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, and others, according to Apple's online store. In the U.S. and all other countries outside of Europe, the new MacBook Pro comes with Apple's 70W USB-C Power Adapter, but European customers miss out. Apple is still generous enough to... Read more ›
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When I traveled from the US to Mexico for a friend's wedding alone, I was nervous about feeling bored without a date. However, the trip was great. Read more ›
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Publishers sued by Rich Media Club include Comcast, Guardian Media Group, Gannett, News Corp's UK publishing arm, and MediaNews Group. Read more ›
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The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X excels in ergonomics and has a full-screen Xbox UI that is easy to use with a controller. Read more ›
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The iPad Pro with M4 already beats the most powerful Android tablets, and the M5 refresh widens the gap even further. Read more ›
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Apple just announced the arrival of the 5th-generation Apple Silicon, with the 14-inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Apple Vision Pro among the first devices to get it. Read more ›
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You'll get access to Windows 10 a little longer by doing this. (Getty Images) Still running Windows 10 on your PC? Did you know that as of October 14, Microsoft moved the software to its "end of life" phase? So while Windows 10 PCs will continue to work, they'll stop getting important security updates by default. The good news is you still have three options to make sure your computer... Read more ›
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Engineer Denis Stetskov, writing in a blog: The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM. Not used. Not allocated. Leaked. A basic calculator app is hemorrhaging more memory than most computers had a decade ago. Twenty years ago, this would have triggered emergency patches and post-mortems. Today, it's just another bug report in the queue. We've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes... Read more ›
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"I'm here to say we have to give these AI bubble predictions a rest," says Yahoo Finance executive editor Brian Sozzi. First of all, AI is a real technology being deployed in real ways inside of Corporate America. Second, this technology is requiring more physical assets in the ground — which are being built to support AI's real-world application. What Zach Dell (son of Michael Dell) is working on at... Read more ›
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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says Internet service providers shouldn't have to list every fee they charge. From a report: Responding to a request from cable and telecom lobby groups, he is proposing to eliminate a rule that requires ISPs to itemize various fees in broadband price labels that must be made available to consumers. The rule took effect in April 2024 after the FCC rejected ISPs' complaints that listing every... Read more ›
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I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos..." And... "You can only turn off this setting 3 times a year." If I moved the slidebar for that setting to the left (for "No"), it moved back to the right, and said "Something went wrong while updating... Read more ›
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South Korea's government may have permanently lost 858TB of information after a fire at a data center in Daejeon. From a report: As reported by DCD, a battery fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) data center, located in the city of Daejeon, on September 26, has caused havoc for government services in Korea. Work to restore the data center is ongoing, but officials fear data stored on the... Read more ›
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"Next time Amazon hypes its Prime Days savings, remember this: The prices during the sale aren't always better," writes a Washington Post technology columnist. "I've got the receipts to prove it." I would have saved, on average, almost nothing during Amazon's recent fall "Prime Big Deal Days" — and for some big-ticket purchases, I would have actually paid amore. For the sale that took place Oct. 7 and 8, my... Read more ›
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Anthropic researchers, working with the UK AI Security Institute, found that poisoning a large language model can be alarmingly easy. All it takes is just 250 malicious training documents (a mere 0.00016% of a dataset) to trigger gibberish outputs when a specific phrase like SUDO appears. The study shows even massive models like GPT-3.5 and Llama 3.1 are vulnerable. The Register reports: In order to generate poisoned data for their... Read more ›
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Doug Whitney carries a genetic mutation that guaranteed he would develop Alzheimer's disease in his late forties or early fifties. His mother and nine of her thirteen siblings died from the disease. His oldest brother died at 45. The mutation has decimated his family for generations. Whitney is now 76 and remains cognitively healthy. The New York Times has a fascinating long read on Whitney and things happening around him.... Read more ›
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A Meta executive in charge of building the company's metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to "go 5X faster," according to an internal message obtained by 404 Media. From the report: "Metaverse AI4P: Think 5X, not 5%," the message, posted by Vishal Shah, Meta's VP of Metaverse, said (AI4P is AI for Productivity). The idea is that programmers should be using AI to work five times... Read more ›
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Climate change has pushed warm-water coral reefs past a point of no return, marking the first time a major climate tipping point has been crossed, according to a report released on Sunday by an international team in advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP30 in Brazil this November. From a report: Tipping points include global ice loss, Amazon rainforest loss, and the possible collapse of vital ocean currents.... Read more ›
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