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Your ChatGPT conversations could end up in court, and they're not protected
Posted on Sunday August 30, 2026
ChatGPT and similar tools are often used for personal questions, legal worries, health concerns, and emotional support. Those conversations can feel private, but they may be accessible through a phone search, a subpoena, discovery in a lawsuit, or a report by the AI company itself.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia's $63 billion stock portfolio is a map of its own supply chain
Posted on Sunday August 30, 2026
Nvidia's earnings this week gave the market the growth story it wanted. But a separate SEC filing gives us an additional perspective on what Nvidia is also doing with all those billions.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Cities are dropping Flock's surveillance cameras at a record pace
Posted on Sunday August 30, 2026
Secure Justice, an Oakland-based anti-surveillance group, says 214 cities and counties have dropped Flock since 2021. Ninety jurisdictions ended contracts in August alone, a fourfold increase from July, according to the group's latest update. That works out to about three cancellations a day during the month.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
NASA launched a space telescope on Sunday that will give astronomers a much wider view of the universe
Posted on Sunday August 30, 2026
The telescope carries a 2.4-meter primary mirror, the same size as Hubble's. But its Wide Field Instrument is designed for a different kind of work. The 300-megapixel camera uses 18 detectors to capture a much broader image, giving Roman a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble's...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Fable PC requirements show it can run on an RTX 2060, but you'll need an RTX 5080 for 4K at 60 fps
Posted on Sunday August 30, 2026
For those who want the basic low-preset experience of 1080p at 30fps, at least an RTX 5050 or RTX 2060, AMD RX 6600, or Intel Arc A580 is required. The minimum CPU is a Ryzen 5 2600 or Intel i7 6850K, while the minimum RAM requirement is 12GB.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Scientists built a battery that charges almost instantly, but there's a catch
Posted on Sunday August 30, 2026
The device, developed by a team led by CSIRO quantum science researcher James Quach, is designed to take advantage of a quantum effect called superabsorption. In simple terms, the more molecules involved, the faster the system can absorb energy.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia DLSS 5 is getting modded into just about every game, often with hilarious results
Posted on Saturday August 29, 2026
A new version of the RenoDX modding tool, available through the developer's Discord server, allows users to apply a leaked build of Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5 to any game that supports high-quality upscaling. The mod's rapid spread effectively amounts to an early release of arguably Nvidia's most ambitious and polarizing...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Cloudflare freed up 100TB of RAM behind its 1.1.1.1 DNS without adding a single server
Posted on Saturday August 29, 2026
The optimization work was centered on Big Pineapple, Cloudflare's DNS caching platform behind the popular 1.1.1.1 resolver, DNS Firewall, and several other DNS services they offer. In a technical blog post, systems engineer Sebastiaan Neuteboom detailed five changes to the Rust codebase that shrank a typical cache entry from 953...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Micron's workers want the AI boom bonuses SK Hynix and Samsung already gave theirs
Posted on Saturday August 29, 2026
Taiwan-based media recently reported that Micron's two primary unions are dissatisfied with worker compensation amid the company's ballooning profits. The unions could threaten to strike, potentially disrupting an already strained global memory supply and worsening technology-related price increases.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
South Korea is giving its entire population free access to AI, no token limits
Posted on Saturday August 29, 2026
The government's "AI for All" program will begin beta testing in September, followed by a broader launch later this year. On Friday, Seoul named three technology consortia to provide the services. They include groups led by the country's two largest telecom companies and the operator of Kakao, one of South...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »