Failed Intel buyout was the best thing that happened to Tower
Thank the gods for the regulators
Three years after US chip giant Intel's $5.4 billion bid to acquire Tower Semiconductor fell through due to regulatory delays, the Israeli company has reached new heights.
OpenAI thinks in different languages
Can't you think English or what?
OpenAI's latest "reasoning" AI model, dubbed o1, has been caught "thinking" in Chinese, Persian, and even other languages—even when asked a question in English.
Vole rebrands its Copilot for businesses
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
Software King of the World, Microsoft is relaunching its free Copilot for businesses as Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, complete with the ability to use AI agents.
Meta is only firing fact checkers in US
Fake news only available in countries run by oligarchs
Meta has told the Brazilian government that it doesn't yet have to worry about the end of fact checkers in its country because it is only removing them in the United States.
Intel to spin off venture arm
Intel Capital goes it alone
Intel has announced plans to spin off its venture capital arm, Intel Capital, into a standalone fund with the chipmaker serving as an “anchor investor.”
D-Link launches Wi-Fi 6 access points for businesses
Jump from 256-QAM to 1024-QAM
D-Link has unveiled two Wi-Fi 6 enterprise-grade access points, the DAP-X3060 and DAP-X3060OU which it claims it can deliver up to a 25 per cent speed boost over previous Wi-Fi standards.
People don’t want to write music any more
Which is why there have been no good songs since the 90s
Mikey Shulman, the CEO and founder of the AI music generator company Suno AI, thinks people don't enjoy making music which has opened the way for a thriving AI music creation business.
UK bans public sector from paying ransomware hackers
No money there anyway
UK public sector and critical infrastructure organizations could be banned from making ransom payments under new government proposals.
Doom runs in a PDF
Classic shooter plays inside a document
Iconic 1993 shooter *Doom* has been successfully ported to run inside a PDF file.
Microsoft suffers from a bad case of two factor ID
Office 365 shuttered
Software King of the Word, Microsoft has seen how bad two factor ID systems are in real life.