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Saturday morning President Trump announced he’s creating an AI task force and appointing an AI czar, reports Politico.
“I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS,” Trump wrote Saturday in what Politi… Continue reading Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump’s ‘AI Force’ Proposal
Water timers are nifty devices that can water the lawn at set times or keep that vegetable garden from turning into a dustbowl. When [electronupdate] timer refused to output water …read more Continue reading Teardown and Repair of a Insoma Water Timer
Mashable writes:
Flock Safety offered employees voluntary buyouts on Friday, WIRED reported… Without the buyouts, those familiar with the situation suspect the company would have to lay off some of its 1,500 employees.
WIRED writes that people f… Continue reading Customer-Losing Flock Now Offers Buyouts to Avoid Laying Off Employees
The RP2350 is actually a pretty secure chip, all things considered. It has secure boot, ARMv8’s TrustZone to split secure and non-secure execution, and you can permanently disable debug — …read more Continue reading Laser Your Way into Debug Mode on the RP2350
I asked if there was a specific industry term for untrusted storage that has its data integrity tracked using smaller, trusted storage. Self-encrypting drives got mentioned in the comments as an alternative. I rejected it at first because … Continue reading TCG Opal/Pyrite-like storage but without PSID reversion
If your company uses Google Workspace but you prefer working in Microsoft Outlook, you don’t necessarily have to choose between the two. You can add your Google Workspace Gmail account to Outlook and use Outlook to read and send your work emails…. Continue reading How to connect Google Workspace to Outlook
A Linux handheld computer is, in theory, easy and inexpensive given the availability of single-board computers, but in practice the budget invariably edges well into three figures. There’s an interesting …read more Continue reading A Hotspot Becomes A Handheld
“In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC,”
writes the blog It’s FOSS.
It ran Steam games and emulators using the PS5’s on-board hardware. But this week Andy announced he’s “stopping all my work on PS5 Lin… Continue reading Developer Abandons ‘PS5 Linux’ Project After Sony Patches AI-Discovered Exploit
This article is written on an open-source operating system, but not an open-source machine — the BIOS isn’t open-source, and even if it were supported by the coreboot project (formerly …read more Continue reading Coreboot Hikes the Bay Trail to DRAM Initialization
U.S. military intelligence received an inaccurate report this spring that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program, reports CNN.
“The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, … Continue reading Fake AI Intelligence Almost Made the US Military Start a War With China