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Cloudflare has emerged victorious in a patent infringement lawsuit against Sable Networks, securing a $225,000 settlement and forcing the patent holder to dedicate its entire portfolio to the public domain. The case, which began in March 2021 with Sable asserting nearly 100 claims across four patents, concluded after a Texas jury found Cloudflare not guilty of infringement in February 2024.
Sable, described by Cloudflare as a "patent troll," had previously sued several tech companies, including Cisco and.
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A leading expert in AI is urging lawmakers to rapidly pass new legislation to regulate Agentic AI, a ground-breaking new form of AI capable of completing complex goal-oriented tasks without the need of a human prompt. President of the European Responsible AI Office (EURAIO) Nell Watson made the call today during her keynote speech at […] Read more ›
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Tencent and Assassin's Creed maker Ubisoft are considering a buyout. Read more Read more ›
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Academy Award-nominated director Todd Phillips and his new sequel Joker: Folie à Deux bravely ask the daring question: What if the most annoying man you know got an equally annoying girlfriend? And what if they sang show tunes to each other? And what if you had to watch? The man in question is one Arthur […] Read more ›
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Taiwanese company Novatek has announced plans to begin mass production of OLED displays with TDDI (touch and display driver integration) technology as early as the second quarter of 2025, supply chain publication DigiTimes reported today. The report states that Apple is "expected" to be one of Novatek's first customers, although this claim appears to be speculative. "While industry insiders remain tight-lipped about potential end customers, speculation suggests that Novatek's proposed... Read more ›
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TSMC's 2nm wafers will cost two times more than 4nm and 5nm wafers, according to report. Read more ›
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Attacking Iran's sprawling and well-defended nuclear program would be a formidable challenge for Israel. Read more ›
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Hurricane Helene's heavy rains devastated western North Carolina, and few properties had flood insurance. Read more ›
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Some top Nvidia executives have sold millions of shares worth over $1.8 billion, and more are to come. Read more ›
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Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Facebook is announcing a host of updates to its platform today, many of which focus on pushing users outside of their social bubble of friends and family. Among the updates are new tabs being added to Facebook that are meant to surface more content for users, including recommendations based on a person’s location. A new “Local” tab will collect content from other Facebook... Read more ›
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Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, and five others died after the Bayesian superyacht was caught in a sudden storm in August near Sicily. Read more ›
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If this was a typical company, the departure of its COO and allegations of a whistleblower complaint would be a big deal. Read more ›
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has cut its Bank of America stake by 23% since July, and it's now worth less than its American Express bet. Read more ›
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The booming jobs market in September could give former President Donald Trump one less thing to attack VP Kamala Harris on as the election nears. Read more ›
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Seven actors have played Joker in a live-action movie or series since 1966. We ranked them from best to worst. Read more ›
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Ten years ago, the Reaper of Souls expansion completely reimagined and revived Diablo III. It overhauled huge swaths of the game, strengthening its foundation enough that D3 remained a fun time even as it stretched far past what should have been its expiration date. Diablo IV has moved at a different pace. It managed to get through launch without the technical mishaps that plagued its predecessor, but it was still... Read more ›
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Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has asked people not to "arbitrarily extract parts of comments for the purpose of reinforcing the legitimacy of your own opinion" after he was accused of blaming Western ratings board for having to put more modest clothing on characters in Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake. Read more Read more ›
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A Chapter 11 bankruptcy has the potential to let Spirit Airlines restructure its debt following a failed merger with JetBlue. Read more ›
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You will have to contact Samsung Support to recover your phone without a data wipe, or wipe the data yourself. Read more ›
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Nikkei Asia that the company is "evaluating technologies like small modular nuclear reactors" to meet its energy needs. Read more ›
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The Register's Simon Sharwood reports: AT&T has claimed that Broadcom made it an offer to increase prices by 1,050 percent, and may be influencing other vendors to make a migration harder. The claim of the colossal price hike came in an email [PDF] filed in evidence by AT&T in its case alleging Broadcom hasn't honored a contract that would allow the carrier to acquire an additional two years of support... Read more ›
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23andMe is not doing well. Its stock is on the verge of being delisted. It shut down its in-house drug-development unit last month, only the latest in several rounds of layoffs. Last week, the entire board of directors quit, save for Anne Wojcicki, a co-founder and the company's CEO. Amid this downward spiral, Wojcicki has said she'll consider selling 23andMe -- which means the DNA of 23andMe's 15 million customers... Read more ›
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The small town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, which supplies high-purity quartz essential for semiconductor production, is reeling from the damage caused by Tropical Storm Helene. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: Spruce Pine is one of the only places in the world to mine high-purity quartz. The mineral is an essential ingredient of chips in countless products, including medical devices, solar panels, cellphones and the chips powering... Read more ›
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Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don't want to subscribe to Microsoft 365. From a report: The standalone Microsoft Office 2024 release is now available for both consumers and small businesses, and includes locked-in-time versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook across both Mac and PC. Office 2024 includes a lot of the updates that Microsoft has been delivering to Microsoft... Read more ›
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The Firefox extension for the uBlock Origin Lite content blocker is no longer available. According to Neowin, "Raymond Hill, the maker of the extension, pulled support and moved uBlock Origin Lite to self-hosting after multiple encounters with a 'nonsensical and hostile' review process from the store review team." From the report: It all started in early September when Mozilla flagged every version of the uBlock Origin Lite extension as violating... Read more ›
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Amazon is set to roll out a greater number of ads [non-paywalled link] across its blockbuster television shows and movies on Prime Video next year as the US tech giant steps up its push into ad-funded streaming services. Financial Times: The company said it had not seen a sharp drop in subscribers since it introduced advertising to its Prime Video platform eight months ago, allaying fears among top executives of... Read more ›
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The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch a satellite into Earth's orbit in 2027 to watch it get wrecked as it reenters the atmosphere. From a report: The project is intended to help understand how exactly satellites break apart so that scientists can learn how to prevent the creation of more space debris. Space junk is becoming a bigger problem as we send more satellites into orbit, but there... Read more ›
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"After complaining that Gen Z grads are difficult to work with for the best part of two years, bosses are no longer all talk, no action — now they're rapidly firing young workers who aren't up to scratch just months after hiring them," writes Fortune. "According to a new report, six in 10 employers say they have already sacked some of the Gen Z workers they hired fresh out of... Read more ›
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Past studies have suggested a major ocean current could collapse, quickly changing temperatures and climate patterns, reports the Washington Post. "But scientists disagree on whether the the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is already slowing, and questions remain as to whether a variety of proxy measurements actually indicate a slowdown" — including a new analysis arguing that the current "has remained remarkably stable." One way to detect AMOC weakening is... Read more ›
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A U.S. Trademark Office tribunal canceled Marvel and DC's jointly owned "Super Hero" trademarks after the companies failed to respond to a request by London-based Superbabies Ltd, which argued the marks couldn't be owned collectively or monopolize the superhero genre. The ruling was "not just a win for our client but a victory for creativity and innovation," said Superbabies attorney Adam Adler of Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg. "By establishing... Read more ›
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