A look at Huawei's HarmonyOS Next, a China-only OS decoupled from Android that is still missing many third-party apps, despite supporting some key ones in China — New HarmonyOS software is of existential importance to China's tech champion. — Huawei Technologies Co.'s ambition …
A look at MrDeepFakes, a site with obscure ownership that hosts non-consensual deepfake porn, has close to 650K members, and gets millions of visits per month — This article is the result of a collaboration with German YouTube channel STRG_F. You can watch their documentary here.
DeepSeek says it used Nvidia H800 chips, available in China until October 2023, to train R1, suggesting future models could be hampered by US export controls — - Nvidia calls R1 an ‘excellent’ advance that meets US limits — Trump says release should be a ‘wake-up call’ for US companies
EU appeals hearing: Google accuses the EC of making “grave errors” in its Android investigation that led to a record €4.3B fine; EU lawyers defended the case — - EU's top court weighs in on bloc's biggest ever antitrust fine — Lower-tier court earlier cut fine down to €4.1 billion
SAP reports Q4 cloud revenue up 27% YoY to €4.71B, above €4.68B est., driven by AI demand, names a suite of new executives, and plans to simplify its strategy — - Cloud revenue grew 27% last quarter from a year earlier — The company named new marketing, technology leadership
How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost: open-source approach, pure reinforcement learning, not supervised fine-tuning, and building on DeepSeek-R1-Zero — DeepSeek R1's Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what's required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance.
A look at the surveillance tech that could power Trump's immigration crackdown; a review of 15K+ contracts shows ICE and USCIS spent $7.8B on tech since 2020 — Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people.
US tech stocks fell sharply pre-market over DeepSeek concerns, with NVDA down 8%+ and META and MSFT down 3%; ASML fell 9%+; Japanese chip companies also dropped — Start-up's model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment — Tech stocks fell sharply on Monday …
A look at the growing prevalence of LLM-written posts that have been backdated and attributed to human authors on Physics Forums, which was founded in 2001 — What Internet Will Look Like in the Future — cripes does anybody remember Google People — Does anybody remember PhysicsForums?
Trump denies talks with Oracle about a TikTok deal, says “I have spoken to many people about TikTok” and expects a decision in the next 30 days — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was in talks with multiple people over buying TikTok and would likely have a decision …
Chinese esports companies, including Tencent and Huya, face growth challenges in China, the world's biggest esports market; the industry earned ~$3.8B in 2024 — BEIJING — One chilly Saturday evening late last year, 33,000 people gathered at Beijing Workers' Stadium to watch …
Major Chinese social media apps have mastered the “shoppertainment” experience, blending social media with shopping, that Western competitors struggle to match — Addictive algorithms fuse social networking with shopping and entertainment. — In the days leading …
Some crypto executives worry Trump's memecoin undercut the industry's credibility at the very moment crypto is seeking a prominent place in mainstream finance — The president's promotion of a speculative digital coin left some crypto investors feeling blindsided, while others saw it as a gimmick …
Sources: people affiliated with DOGE have met with representatives of various public blockchains as they explore using a blockchain to track federal spending — - Conversations said to be held with multiple public blockchains — The technology may be used to track government spending
Hands-on with the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses live translation feature: adept at translating a basic conversation, but struggles with slang and faster speech — I was in middle school the last time I took a Spanish class. I remember enough for toddler talk — phrases like …
New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...
