Amazon’s Q is stoned out of its box
Published in News


Hallucinating and leaking like crazy

Three days after Amazon announced its AI chatbot Q, some employees are warning that it is experiencing severe hallucinations and leaking confidential data.

CAPTCHA is a waste of time
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Slows the internet and provides little protection

CAPTCHA systems are a waste of time, according to boffins at UC Irvine.

Electric vehicles are less reliable
Published in Transportation


79 per cent more problems

According to Consumer Reports ' newly released annual car reliability survey, shows that electric vehicle owners continue to report far more problems with their vehicles than owners of conventional cars or hybrids.

Circuit-based quantum computers limited
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If they only had more time

Timekeeping quality in circuit-based quantum computations are limited by the achievable circuit complexity, according to a new analysis published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Biostar bundles motherboard with Ryzen 5 Pro CPU as ultimate business solution
Published in PC Hardware


B650MT motherboard paired up with Ryzen 5 PRO 7654 CPU

Biostar has launched yet another combo, pairing up its own B650MT motherboard with AMD's Ryzen 5 PRO 7654 CPU and calling it the ultimate business solution.

Marvell expects falling revenue
Published in PC Hardware


Miserable time to be alive

Marvell said it’s expecting its revenue to decline as it enters the final quarter of the fiscal 2024 year, and its stock was trading more than four per cent lower in the after-hours session today.

Microsoft pauses Windows 11 version 23H2
Published in News


Annoying bug

Microsoft has paused the rollout of Windows 11 version 23H2 due to an annoying bug which causes desktop icons to move between monitors.

No chance of super intelligent AI in the next year
Published in AI


Microsoft says the technology is decades away.

Software King of the World Microsoft has said people should not be worried about super intelligent AI because it could be decades away from appearing.

Activision Blizzard had a plan to set up app store
Published in Gaming


Project Boston was one of two cunning plans to deal with Google

Activision Blizzard had a cunning plan to change its relationship with Google by setting up its App store within Android.

DeepMind tortured ChatGPT to reveal sources
Published in AI


We ask the questions

A team of boffins from Google's DeepMind used a torture method on ChatGPT until it revealed the snippets of the data it was trained on.