Baidu hits the turbo button to get back into AI race An industry analyst Friday offered a lukewarm response to a series of announcements from Chinese tech giant Baidu around upgrades to its multimodal foundation model, ERNIE 4.5, and reasoning model, ERNIE X1, first released last month. During his keynote at the firm’s annual developer conference in Wuhan, China, CEO Robin Li launched ERNIE 4.5 Turbo and ERNIE X1 Turbo, which, according to a releas… Russian Satellite Linked to Its Nuclear Anti-Satellite Weapon Program Appears Out of Control, Analyst says An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters: The secretive Russian satellite in space that U.S. officials believe is connected to a nuclear anti-satellite weapon program has appeared to be spinning uncontrollably, suggesting it may no longer be functioning in what could be a setback for Moscow's space weapon efforts, according to U.S. analysts... [The Cosmos 2553 satellite launched in 2022] has had various bouts of what appears to be errant spinning over the past year, according to Dopp… Google working to decode dolphin communication using AI Google is harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to study how dolphins communicate with the ultimate goal of enabling humans to one day talk with them. TSMC defies margin pressure as second-tier foundries slip TSMC beat market expectations in the first quarter of 2025, driven by surging AI chip demand, full capacity at its advanced 3nm and 5nm nodes, and effective cost management. Excluding one-time impacts such as earthquake-related losses and higher depreciation from the ramp-up of its Kumamoto fab, the company's core performance remained strong. Should You Avoid Fast Charging Your EV All The Time? While new charging tech means you can fill your EV's battery faster, is it a good idea to do every time? We took a look at the science and here's what it says. How Your Organization Can Benefit from Platform Engineering Platform engineering takes DevOps to an entirely new level. Here's how to get your development team onboard. “Product Kondo”: A Guide To Evaluating Your Organizational Product Portfolio It starts with good intentions — a quick fix here, a shiny feature there — and suddenly, your product portfolio’s bursting at the seams. In this guide, Talke Hoppmann-Walton walks you through a “Product Kondo” exercise to declutter, realign, and spark some serious product joy for both your business and your customers. India’s services giants brace for impact as US tariffs bite their customers Wipro was forced to pause an active SAP project due to client’s jitters India’s big four IT services players are all concerned that the USA’s new tariffs regime may see some of their customers spend less on tech – but later spend more to cope with whatever changes are needed to compete in a changed global trade system.… |
Apple Aims To Source All US iPhones From India in Pivot Away From China Apple plans to shift the assembly of all US-sold iPhones to India [alternative source] as soon as next year, according to Financial Times, which cites people familiar with the matter, as President Donald Trump's trade war forces the tech giant to pivot away from China. From the report: The push builds on Apple's strategy to diversify its supply chain but goes further and faster than investors appreciate, with a goal to source from India the entirety of the more than 60 million iPhones sold annu… Best VPN deals: Protect your privacy for the lowest prices Whether you’re looking for something that will give you the privacy you need or access to location-restricted streaming content, we’ve got you covered with the very best VPN deals currently available. But not all deals are worth it, so we only highlight those offered by reputable providers that we’ve personally reviewed and recommend. We’ve also included some helpful answers to common questions a… 4chan is back online, says it’s been ‘starved of money’ 4chan is partly back online after a hack took the infamous image-sharing site down for nearly two weeks. The site first went down on April 14, with the person responsible for the hack apparently leaking data including a list of moderators and “janitors” (one janitor told TechCrunch they were “confident” that the leaked data was […] 7 Best Mesh Routers (2025), Tested and Reviewed Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested multiroom mesh systems will get you online in no time. My life’s a mess. Will turning it into a game make everything better? With two small kids and a dog to take care of, I often struggle to look after myself. Self-care apps promise to help – if you can handle the quests, magic potions and rainbow stones. I put four of them to the test The other night, I didn’t moisturise before bed. The baby had just woken and was crying for a feed. I didn’t want him to wake the toddler he shares a room with, and I couldn’t, in that … No sweat: Humanoid robots run Chinese half-marathon alongside flesh-and-blood runners In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital Proof-of-concept bypass shows weakness in Linux security tools, claims Israeli vendor An Israeli vendor was able to evade several leading Linux runtime security tools using a new proof-of-concept (PoC) rootkit that it claims reveals the limitations of many products in this space. The work of cloud and Kubernetes security company Armo, the PoC is called ‘Curing’, a portmanteau word that combines the idea of a ‘cure’ with the io_uring Linux kernel interface that the company used in … Only Google can run Chrome, company's browser chief tells judge Google is the only company that can offer the level of features and functionality that its popular Chrome web browser has today, given its "interdependencies" on other parts of the Alphabet Inc. unit, the head of Chrome testified. Nike is facing a lawsuit from people who bought its NFTs A group of people sued Nike this week over its decision to wind down its virtual show project RTFKT last year. The buyers of the digital assets accuse Nike of causing “the rug to be pulled out from under them,” and say they wouldn’t have bought its NFTs if they’d known they were “unregistered securities,” […] |
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