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A federal appeals court has ruled that TikTok can be banned in the US over national security concerns. The ruling rejected arguments that the ban was an unconstitutional infringement on free speech. The ban was intended solely to limit a foreign nation's ability to gather data on people in the US. TikTok claims US security fears are speculative and overblown. It is expected to appeal to the Supreme Court, but the justices are not obliged to hear the case.
Apple is investigating the possibility of adding a modern chip to a future Mac, but a cellular Mac isn't likely to launch until 2026 or later. The company plans to introduce its custom-built 5G chip early in 2025. It will be added to the iPhone SE, low-cost iPad, and iPhone 17 Air. The chip will be expanded to other iPhones and iPads over a three-year period. The first-generation chip will be limited to sub-6GHz 5G speeds, but the second-generation version will support faster mmWave technology.
CATL, the world's largest battery manufacturer, has announced its second-generation sodium-ion battery, which has an energy density of 200 watt-hours per kilogram. The company plans to start mass production of the battery in 2027. Sodium-ion batteries perform better than lithium-ion batteries in extreme cold and they carry a much lower risk of fire. The process for manufacturing sodium-ion batteries is similar to that of lithium-ion batteries, so existing assembly lines can be reused without having to spend heavily on retooling. Their biggest disadvantage is low energy density, but they have the potential to be cost-competitive with lithium-ion batteries.
Intel's Foundry Technology Research team has announced technology breakthroughs in 2D transistor technology. It plans to unveil its research at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting 2024 conference. The research includes enhancements in gate-all-around transistor scaling and performance both with silicon and with atomically-thin 2D transistors that use beyond-silicon materials. It also outlines Intel's subtractive Ruthenium technology, which improves interconnect performance and scalability, ultimately enabling smaller wires between transistors, and a chip packaging breakthrough that improves chip-to-chip assembly throughput by 100x.
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This page contains a list of the biggest shell programs in the world. It only contains non-repetitive and non-generated programs. The biggest shell programs that aren't repetitive tend to be in the 10,000+ line range.
Artificial Analysis ranks different AI models to help developers choose the best model and provider for their use case. It has sections for language models and speech, image, and video models as well as leaderboards and arenas for image, video, and speech. Artificial Analysis supports a lot of models and APIs from a wide range of providers.
Brian Krebs is a 52-year-old cybersecurity researcher who has investigated and outed some of the worst actors on the internet over the past 20 years. He makes most of his money from banner ads on the website where he shares his findings, which pulls more than a million visits a month. Krebs is currently part of an investigation looking at members of an anarchic online community linked to home invasions designed to steal cryptocurrency at gunpoint and other cybercrimes known as the Com. This article goes into Kreb's career, the events leading him to live a secretive life, the investigation into Com, and more.
We are currently watching the biggest transformation yet in how businesses scale: the separation of intelligence from service delivery. This is being driven by investors who understand that AI is about operating leverage. This article looks at the interesting ways private equity is separating the 'intelligence layer' from service delivery. The real opportunity isn't in building AI or buying companies, it's in creating entirely new financial structures.
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X now allows users 10 free prompts every two hours, but they're restricted to analyzing three images per day.
Every new manager makes mistakes, but each one is an opportunity to grow - becoming a skilled manager takes time and continuous learning.
The provision was intended to prevent AGI from being misused for commercial gain, but OpenAI is under immense pressure to raise capital to continue its R&D.
This article looks at six tech champions that stood out for their growth this year.
Reinforcement Fine-Tuning is a method for improving how AI models work through their reasoning for responses.
AI allows developers to iterate and experiment faster, but the hard parts of software development still require human judgment.