Month: January 2025

Supreme Court lets Hawaii sue oil companies over climate change effects

SCOTUS won’t answer “recurring question of extraordinary importance” to Big Oil.

On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to decide whether to block lawsuits that Honolulu filed to seek billions in damages from oil and gas companies over allegedly deceptive marketing campaigns that hid the effects of climate change.

Now those lawsuits can proceed, surely frustrating the fossil fuel industry, which felt that SCOTUS should have weighed in on this key "recurring question of extraordinary importance to the energy industry" raised in lawsuits seeking similarly high damages in several states, CBS News reported.

Defendants Sunoco and Shell, along with 15 other energy companies, had asked the court to intervene and stop the Hawaii lawsuits from proceeding. They had hoped to move the cases out of Hawaii state courts by arguing that interstate pollution is governed by federal law and the Clean Air Act.

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US splits world into three tiers for AI chip access

While close US allies get unrestricted AI chip access, the rest of the world has numerical limits.

On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into roughly three tiers of access. The rules create quotas for about 120 countries and allow unrestricted access for 18 close US allies while maintaining existing bans on China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

AI-accelerating GPU chips, like those manufactured by Nvidia, currently serve as the backbone for a wide variety of AI model deployments, such as chatbots like ChatGPT, AI video generators, self-driving cars, weapons targeting systems, and much more. The Biden administration fears that those chips could be used to undermine US national security.

According to the White House, "In the wrong hands, powerful AI systems have the potential to exacerbate significant national security risks, including by enabling the development of weapons of mass destruction, supporting powerful offensive cyber operations, and aiding human rights abuses."

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GPD Win Mini (2025) handheld gaming PC hits Indiegogo for $769 and up

The GPD Win Mini (2025) is a handheld gaming PC with 7 inch, 120 Hz display, support for up to an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Strix Point processor, and a clamshell design that makes the system look a little like a tiny laptop. It even has a QWERTY keyboard …

The GPD Win Mini (2025) is a handheld gaming PC with 7 inch, 120 Hz display, support for up to an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Strix Point processor, and a clamshell design that makes the system look a little like a tiny laptop. It even has a QWERTY keyboard designed to let you type […]

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Entwickler: Deutsche Firmen besetzen offene IT-Stellen mit KI

Um den Fachkräftemangel bei Softwareentwicklung oder IT-Administration auszugleichen, setzen größere Firmen KI ein. KI könne eine IT-Abteilung aber nicht ersetzen, sagte der Bitkom-Chef. (Fachkräftemangel, KI)

Um den Fachkräftemangel bei Softwareentwicklung oder IT-Administration auszugleichen, setzen größere Firmen KI ein. KI könne eine IT-Abteilung aber nicht ersetzen, sagte der Bitkom-Chef. (Fachkräftemangel, KI)