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Apple briefly tops $5 trillion market value, becoming second company to hit milestone

Why proving personhood is the new standard for identity verification

Most fraud strategies fail before a fraudster is ever detected, because they evaluate documents, rather than people. Consider the operational reality: a customer signs up for a fintech service. Their government-issued ID clears every…

Shares in Asian chip firms plunge further as AI sell-off continues

Drop comes after South Korean company SK Hynix’s results undershot investors’ expectations Business live – latest updates Shares in companies linked to AI have plunged further after disappointing results from the South Korean chipmaker SK…

I turned my guitar amp into a giant home speaker and it was a loud and stupid idea, but it basically worked (with some…

You all know what a guitar amplifier is. Big, intimidating stacks of speakers and dials, designed for some nice loud guitar playing. But do they work as well for other people's guitars; i.e., can a big powerful block of music-playing kit…

The Hardest Part of AI Isn't the Model Anymore.

A year or two ago, if your AI feature wasn't performing well, the answer was usually simple. Try a better model. Teams moved from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4, experimented with Claude, or waited for the next release, and many of their problems…

‘Construction sites are probably one of the hardest environments you could ask an autonomous system to operate in’

In an era increasingly dominated by AI and automation, it’s still incredible just how much construction work remains manual. The contrast is most stark in data centers – facilities built to power cutting-edge technology, but whose delivery…

It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job

The fact it may soon be better than you at making dinner? Insult to injury. But that’s exactly what the company 1X promised when it showed off a pair of new, impressively dexterous (and, to some, oddly sexy?) robotic hands in a July demo…

South Korean chipmaker SK hynix reports 1,242% profit surge on booming AI demand

Despite record second-quarter profits fuelled by AI demand, SK hynix shares plunged as investors questioned whether the boom can last amid Middle East tensions.

OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services

OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face.

How I Fixed Power Management on a Mainline OnePlus 3T

Why it ran hot Part one ended with the phone working, and for a while that was the end of it. postmarketOS on a mainline kernel, Docker on top, a Tailscale address, one small service that needed nothing from me. It went on a shelf behind a…

Can an AI-Generated Film Win an Oscar? The Academy Just Drew the Line

The 99th Oscars rules ban AI actors and AI-written scripts, but the definition of authorship they landed on is closer to how working indie AI filmmakers already operate than anyone in Hollywood seems to realize. In January, I filled out a…

Netflix edges past the BBC as UK viewers’ first choice

For the first time, a streaming service has overtaken the BBC as the place UK viewers say they turn to first. In Ofcom’s annual Media Nations report, published this week, Netflix was named first choice by 26% of viewers, just ahead of the…