AI exterminates humans in some tasks, but not all,
Stanford’s New AI Index Report
Stanford’s new AI Index Report discloses that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has outperformed humans in several benchmarks, including image classification, visual reasoning, and English understanding. However, it lags in complex tasks like competition-level mathematics, visual commonsense reasoning, and planning.
Apple in trouble with British courts
Attempts to dodge €1 billion law suit thrown out
Fruity cargo cult Apple’s cheeky bid to dodge a lawsuit worth nearly €1 billion has been chucked out by the beak.
Chipzilla's Raptor Lake CPUs are extinct
Meets its meteor
Chipzilla, also known as Intel, is ringing the death knell for its overclockable Core i5, i7, and i9 Raptor Lake CPUs. The K-series lineup is set to become tech fossils after 24 May 2024, with vendors getting their last chance to snap them up.
Huawei's building a mega chip R&D Centre
Shanghai to be the new Silicon Valley
Tech titan Huawei is trying to outsmart Uncle Sam's tech crackdown with a whopping new semiconductor R&D centre in Shanghai. They're talking a big game with plans to whip up their lithography machines, the secret sauce for top-tier chips.
Spectre's spooky sequel haunts Linux
Intel’s Ghost in the Machine returns
Tech boffins are quaking in their boots as the ghost of Spectre returns to haunt Linux systems.
PHP on life support
Plummets to all-time low in popularity
PHP has nosedived to its lowest-ever rank on the TIOBE index—coming in at a dismal #17.
Qualcomm joins Canonical's elite circle
Tech Titans Team Up
Qualcomm is set to join Canonical's "silicon partners," a coveted club that boasts big names like Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and Arm.
Eviscerate the weak, the ordinary, the unprepared
Axios head honcho Jim VandeHei has warned that artificial intelligence will "eviscerate the weak, the ordinary, the unprepared in media."
Google spends a billion dollars on new submarine cables
Godzilla gets faster internet and more cat videos
Google has unveiled plans to invest $1 billion in two new submarine cables, Proa and Taihei, forging fresh digital pathways between the US and Japan.
UK Tories mull banning phone sales to kids
Hope to capture the yoof vote
The UK Tory government, brimming with confidence in its prospects for the next election, has taken a bold step by proposing a ban on the sales of mobile phones to kids.