San Francisco's train control system still runs on floppy disks, risking a "catastrophic failure"
"Cutting edge" in 1998?
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Microsoft issues warning on China's use of generative AI to disrupt US elections
China-based and Beijing-backed groups are becoming more sophisticated
"Stop Killing Games" is a new campaign to prevent publishers from taking their titles offline
Finally somebody is taking on the big bad publishers
Survey reveals 41% of executives expect AI will shrink workforce sizes
Not very collaborative on AI's part
Former White House CIO warns the tech industry should prepare for a TikTok ban
China could retaliate by placing demands on Apple
Another Matrix movie is in the works with a new writer-director
Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, The Martian) will be writing and directing
FTC denies rating board's suggestion for age verification system
Editor's take: The ESRB has one job: rate games by maturity level based on content. So why did it involve itself in a proposal to add a new age verification system for parents to use to provide consent for data collection on their children? All that did was confuse the public about what facial age estimation is and how it would be used, leading to it getting shot down by the FTC.
California considers "right to disconnect" bill to prevent bosses contacting workers out of hours
Californians could soon have a better work-life balance
FPS and your eyes: Some people can process visual information faster than others
Seeing more frames per second
US prison system proposes total social media ban for inmates, sparking First Amendment concerns
Activists call the proposal "archaic and so inhumane"
Nvidia's Xbox takeover and Cyberpunk's retro twist highlight April Fools' Day fun
April Fools' shenanigans
Boldly go: William Shatner is heading to Antarctica, and you can join him
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
Russia slams HP for closing local website, claims world is boycotting the company
In compliance with US-mandated sanctions
IEEE will no longer accept Playboy's "Lenna" image for image processing research
A hot potato: Simply known as "Lenna," the test image was scanned by Alexander Sawchuk at the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing Institute in 1973. It's been used in research papers about image processing since then, but now the time has come to retire this piece of fortuitous standard in digital beauty.
Despite increasing to $16.8 million, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's compensation still pales in comparison to AMD's Lisa Su
Expect Jensen Huang to be the top earner
Hulu content is now available on the Disney+ app in the US
The "Hulu on Disney+" beta test started last year
Discord looks to boost gaming revenue by ditching its long time ad-free stance
The company plans to incentivize users to complete specific in-game tasks
Mark Zuckerberg meets with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, calls him the "Taylor Swift of Tech"
Zuck also confirmed that Meta is planning to Buy Nvidia's B100 AI accelerators
In a nutshell: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently met up with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and shared a photo of the two of them together. The viral Instagram post, which has already received over 170,000 likes, shows the two billionaires wearing each other's jackets.
FuryGPU is an open source hardware GPU built from scratch
In a nutshell: Can someone build a 3D graphics card from scratch? Dylan Barrie wanted to find out and spent four years trying. The result was a complete GPU that can theoretically run older gaming software on Windows.
Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison
Not as bad as the 110 years he could have received
50 Years Later: The Revolutionary 8008 Microprocessor
#TBT Intel's groundbreaking 8008 microprocessor was produced over 50 years ago, the ancestor of the x86 processor family that you may be using right now. While the 8008 wasn't the first microprocessor, it was truly revolutionary, triggering a revolution and leading to the x86 architecture that dominated personal computers for decades to come.
