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Intel says it’s rolling out laptop GPU drivers with 10% to 25% better performance
29 April 2025 @ 10:13 pm
Laptops with Core Ultra 200V chips CPUs Arc 130V or 140V GPUs should benefit.
OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT a sycophantic mess
29 April 2025 @ 9:15 pm
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the super-positive update to GPT-4o is being pulled.
Google search’s made-up AI explanations for sayings no one ever said, explained
29 April 2025 @ 8:53 pm
A partial defense of (some of) AI Overview's fanciful idiomatic explanations.
FCC urges courts to ignore 5th Circuit ruling that agency can’t issue fines
29 April 2025 @ 7:25 pm
One court said FCC violated right to trial, but other courts haven't ruled yet.
Firefly’s rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we’ve ever seen
29 April 2025 @ 7:10 pm
The rocket's first stage may have exploded moments after it separated from the upper stage.
Trump admin lashes out as Amazon considers displaying tariff costs on its sites
29 April 2025 @ 6:03 pm
"This was never approved and is not going to happen," says Amazon.
Montana’s Republican legislators fight back after successful youth climate lawsuit
29 April 2025 @ 5:40 pm
Republican backlash could lead to changes in Montana’s courts and environmental laws.
Google: Governments are using zero-day hacks more than ever
29 April 2025 @ 4:53 pm
Google says zero-day threats are trending upward even as total detections fell in 2024.
Trump backs down a bit on auto industry tariffs—but only a bit
29 April 2025 @ 4:13 pm
Trump slightly softens his stand on auto industry imports, but 25% tariffs stay.
Physics of the perfect cacio e pepe sauce
29 April 2025 @ 3:42 pm
The trick: Add corn starch separately to make the sauce rather than using pasta water.