Earlier this week I interviewed Peter Hotez and Michael Mann, authors of a new book, coming out next week, titled “Science under siege.” I’ll be posting that interview Saturday.Both men are eminent scientists who have played key roles in public… Continue Reading →
The Cadillac Formula 1 team has named Andretti Global IndyCar driver Colton Herta as its test driver, with rumours intensifying over the Californian leaving IndyCar for an F2 campaign. Herta, whose Andretti IndyCar squad is owned by the same TWG Motorsport… Continue Reading →
The consensus among the people who responded to my what does “on the web” mean query is this. Something is on the web if it has a URL you can use to view it in a web browser. That means,… Continue Reading →
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AMD’s X3D-series Ryzen chips have become popular with PC gamers because games in particular happen to benefit disproportionately from the chips’ extra 64MB of L3 cache memory. But that extra memory… Continue Reading →
US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent hack, reportedly by hackers with ties to the Russian government, that exposed confidential court documents. The breach of the judiciary’s electronic case filing system first… Continue Reading →
Intel said Monday that converting $8.87 billion in federal chip subsidies into a 10% equity stake creates unprecedented complications and potential “adverse reactions” for a company deriving 76% of revenue internationally. The arrangement transforms Biden-era CHIPS Act grants into share… Continue Reading →
NotebookLM’s Video Overviews now supports 80 languages, including French and Spanish. Link to original post https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/notebooklms-video-overview-feature-now-supports-80-languages/ from Teknoids NewsRead the original story
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This is Netflix’s first time winning the domestic box office. Link to original post https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/24/netflixs-kpop-demon-hunters-is-probably-the-biggest-movie-in-theaters/ from Teknoids NewsRead the original story
Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. Link to original post https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/24/elon-musk-says-xai-has-open-sourced-grok-2-5/ from Teknoids NewsRead… Continue Reading →