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Samsung’s latest mid-range tablets arrive this week with the new Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 FE and Galaxy Tab S10 FE+ set to go on sale in select markets starting April 3, 2025. At first glance, the new tablets look a lot like the Galaxy Tab S9 FE se…
Samsung’s latest mid-range tablets arrive this week with the new Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 FE and Galaxy Tab S10 FE+ set to go on sale in select markets starting April 3, 2025. At first glance, the new tablets look a lot like the Galaxy Tab S9 FE series that launched about a year and a half ago. But […]
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More damaging reports for Trump official who invited journalist to Signal chat.
National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and a senior aide used personal Gmail accounts for government communications, according to a Washington Post report published yesterday.
Waltz has been at the center of controversy for weeks because he inadvertently invited The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat in which top Trump administration officials discussed a plan for bombing Houthi targets in Yemen. Yesterday's report of Gmail use and another recent report on additional Signal chats raise more questions about the security of sensitive government communications in the Trump administration.
A senior Waltz aide used Gmail "for highly technical conversations with colleagues at other government agencies involving sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict," The Washington Post wrote.
Tesla hat in Europa und China einen massiven Umsatzrückgang im ersten Quartal hinnehmen müssen. Weltweit sank der Absatz um 12,9 Prozent. (Tesla, Elektroauto)
Tesla hat in Europa und China einen massiven Umsatzrückgang im ersten Quartal hinnehmen müssen. Weltweit sank der Absatz um 12,9 Prozent. (Tesla, Elektroauto) The PocketCloud is a modular storage solution designed to function as a portable hard drive, a backup device for camera SD cards, and a network-attached storage solution with wireless and wired capabilities. It does all of that thanks to a two-part des…
The PocketCloud is a modular storage solution designed to function as a portable hard drive, a backup device for camera SD cards, and a network-attached storage solution with wireless and wired capabilities. It does all of that thanks to a two-part design. Most of the hardware is built into a small, portable gadget that lets you […]
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Eine Anfrage der Linken offenbart ein Sicherheitsrisiko. Zudem steigen die Ausgaben für Clouddienste massiv. (Anke Domscheit-Berg, Google)
Eine Anfrage der Linken offenbart ein Sicherheitsrisiko. Zudem steigen die Ausgaben für Clouddienste massiv. (Anke Domscheit-Berg, Google) Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.
On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia's servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up terabytes of data, growing the foundation's bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content by 50 percent since January 2024. It’s a scenario familiar across the free and open source software (FOSS) community, as we've previously detailed.
The Foundation hosts not only Wikipedia but also platforms like Wikimedia Commons, which offers 144 million media files under open licenses. For decades, this content has powered everything from search results to school projects. But since early 2024, AI companies have dramatically increased automated scraping through direct crawling, APIs, and bulk downloads to feed their hungry AI models. This exponential growth in non-human traffic has imposed steep technical and financial costs—often without the attribution that helps sustain Wikimedia’s volunteer ecosystem.
The impact isn’t theoretical. The foundation says that when former US President Jimmy Carter died in December 2024, his Wikipedia page predictably drew millions of views. But the real stress came when users simultaneously streamed a 1.5-hour video of a 1980 debate from Wikimedia Commons. The surge doubled Wikimedia’s normal network traffic, temporarily maxing out several of its Internet connections. Wikimedia engineers quickly rerouted traffic to reduce congestion, but the event revealed a deeper problem: The baseline bandwidth had already been consumed largely by bots scraping media at scale.
US-Präsident Donald Trump hat einem Bericht zufolge Mitgliedern seines Kabinetts mitgeteilt, dass Elon Musk von seiner Arbeit für die US-Regierung zurücktreten wird. (USA, Politik)
Evidence of DOGE staffer’s proud history of hacking quickly deleted, report says.
A SpaceX and X engineer, Christopher Stanley—currently serving as a senior advisor in the Deputy Attorney General's office at the Department of Justice (DOJ)—was reportedly caught bragging about hacking and distributing pirated e-books, bootleg software, and game cheats.
The boasts appeared on archived versions of websites, of which several, once flagged, were quickly deleted, Reuters reported.
Stanley was assigned to the DOJ by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). While Musk claims that DOGE operates transparently, not much is known about who the staffers are or what their government roles entail. It remains unclear what Stanley does at DOJ, but Reuters noted that the Deputy Attorney General’s office is in charge of investigations into various crimes, "including hacking and other malicious cyber activity." Declining to comment further, the DOJ did confirm that as a "special government employee," like Musk, Stanley does not draw a government salary.
It’s slow and inefficient, but the semiconductor is only one molecule thick.
On Wednesday, a team of researchers from China used a paper published in Nature to describe a 32-bit RISC-V processor built using molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon as the semiconductor. For those not up on their chemistry, molybdenum disulfide is a bit like graphene: a single molecule of MoS2 is a sheet that is only a bit over a single atom thick, due to the angles between its chemical bonds. But unlike graphene, molybdenum disulfide is a semiconductor.
The material has been used in a variety of demonstration electronics, including flash storage and image sensors. But we've recently figured out how to generate wafer-scale sheets of MoS2 on a sapphire substrate, and the team took advantage of that to build the processor, which they call RV32-WUJI. It can only add single bits at a time and is limited to kilohertz clock speeds, but it is capable of executing the full RISC-V 32-bit instruction set thanks to nearly 6,000 individual transistors.
We've identified a wide range of what are termed 2D materials. These all form repeated chemical bonds in more or less a single plane. In the case of graphene, which consists only of carbon, the bonds are all in the same plane, meaning the molecule is as thick as a carbon atom. Molybdenum disulfide is slightly different, as the angle of the chemical bonds is out of plane, resulting in a zig-zag pattern. This means the sheet is slightly thicker than its component atoms.
Some Switch games will get free updates to improve Switch 2 performance.
We've known for a few months now that the Nintendo Switch 2 will support backward compatibility for older Nintendo Switch games, and as of today's presentation, we also know that some Switch games will get special Switch 2 Editions that add new features and support higher resolutions and other features.
Nintendo's product pages for the Switch add more details, including the status of backward-compatibility testing for original Switch games and a small handful of first-party Switch games that will get "free updates" to enhance them for Switch 2.
First, some good news. There will be a second tier of updates for original Switch games that Nintendo says "may improve performance or add support for features such as GameShare in select games." These won't include the extra features or higher resolutions of Switch 2 Edition games, but they'll be available for free, and they ought to improve playability. Nintendo lists a dozen first-party Switch games that will benefit from free Switch 2 updates:
US-Präsident Donald Trump hat einem Bericht zufolge Mitgliedern seines Kabinetts mitgeteilt, dass Elon Musk von seiner Arbeit für die US-Regierung zurücktreten wird. (