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Meta wants to use nuclear power for its data centers
04 Dec

Meta wants to use nuclear power for its data centers

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Meta has confirmed its plans to use to fuel US data centers. The company announced that it’s accepting proposals from nuclear energy developers to work on the project, with the goal of adding between one and four gigawatts of nuclear energy capacity “starting in the early 2030s.”The company’s states that Meta is seeking partners that have experience with “either Small Modular Reactors (SMR) or larger nuclear reactors.” Axios that the company is “geographically agnostic” about the location of potential nuclear sites. The company previously had plans to build a nuclear-powered data center, The Financial Times earlier this year, but the…
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Russia arrests ransomware attacker Wazawaka
29 Nov

Russia arrests ransomware attacker Wazawaka

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One of the world’s most notorious hackers could finally be in custody.  reports that ransomware affiliate Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev also known as Wazawaka, Uhodiransomwar, m1x and Boriselcin has been arrested.Prosecutors have not confirmed if Matveev is under arrest, but reports indicate that Matveev may be the hacker in Russian custody. The Russian state news agency  (translated on BlueSky by the Center for Strategic Research’s ) reported that the Kaliningrad Interior Ministry and Russian prosecutors sent a case of “a programmer accused of creating a malicious program” to court. An anonymous source with knowledge of the matter confirms that Matveev is…
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Rivian will likely receive $6.6 billion loan from the government to open its plant in Georgia
27 Nov

Rivian will likely receive $6.6 billion loan from the government to open its plant in Georgia

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American EV maker Rivian just announced that from the US Department of Energy (DOE) for a loan totaling $6.6 billion. This is thanks to the DOE’s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing (ATVM) Loan Program. This includes a principal loan of $6 billion and approximately $600 million of capitalized interest.The company says it will use this money to “to accelerate its growth and leadership of electric vehicle design, development and manufacturing in the United States.” Rivian fans can guess what that means. The Georgia manufacturing plant is back on the table, after the company back in March.If finalized, the loan will support…
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X says The Onion can’t have Alex Jones’ Infowars accounts
27 Nov

X says The Onion can’t have Alex Jones’ Infowars accounts

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Another legal complication may have surfaced in The Onion’s bid to buy the Infowars empire from bankrupt conspiracy media mogul Alex Jones. X filed a limited objection to the transfer of Infowars’ X accounts to the satirical media empire in a federal Bankruptcy Court on Monday.The objection claims that X Corporation’s terms of service states “the Trustee cannot sell, assign or otherwise transfer such license absent X Corp.’s consent,” according to court records.X Corporation cites its own agreement in its objection. The TOS states accounts cannot be transferred, gifted, sold or assigned to other parties ”without X’s express written consent.”“Because…
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Uber’s latest gig economy play is offering out coders for hire
26 Nov

Uber’s latest gig economy play is offering out coders for hire

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reports that Uber has started farming out independent contractors for data-labeling services as well as coders-for-hire.Uber describes its new Scaled Solutions division as a platform of “analysts, testers and independent data operators,” according to . Scaled Solutions began life as an internal team, handling “large-scale annotation tasks” for Uber’s other services. Now it’s been expanded to provide coders and data labelers for outside companies like Pokémon Go developer Niantic Inc. and the self-driving trucking software firm Aurora Innovations. Aurora acquired Uber’s self-driving unit in 2020 and Uber is one of Aurora’s investors.Uber started recruiting workers this month for its Scaled…
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NASA just released a stunning new image of the Sombrero galaxy captured by the JWST
25 Nov

NASA just released a stunning new image of the Sombrero galaxy captured by the JWST

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is back to once again paint a glorious portrait of the heavens. This time, the powerful telescope , otherwise called Messier 104 or M104. The end result? A gorgeous image that reframes our understanding of that particular region of space.Upon closer inspection using the JWST’s mid-infrared view, the Sombrero galaxy no longer truly resembles its namesake. It looks more like an archery target, complete with a bullseye in the center. That bullseye? It’s actually a supermassive black hole.The sharp resolution offered by Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) finally gives us a detailed glimpse of the…
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NVIDIA’s new AI model Fugatto can create audio from text prompts
25 Nov

NVIDIA’s new AI model Fugatto can create audio from text prompts

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NVIDIA has debuted a new experimental generative AI model, which it describes as "a Swiss Army knife for sound." The model called Foundational Generative Audio Transformer Opus 1, or Fugatto, can take commands from text prompts and use them to create audio or to modify existing music, voice and sound files. It was designed by a team of AI researchers from around the world, and NVIDIA says that made the model's "multi-accent and multilingual capabilities stronger.""We wanted to create a model that understands and generates sound like humans do," said Rafael Valle, one of the researchers behind the project and…
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Chemists have created the world’s thinnest spaghetti
22 Nov

Chemists have created the world’s thinnest spaghetti

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Researchers from the University College London have done what celebrity chefs and Italian nonnas could only dream of: they've made the world's thinnest spaghetti. This culinary-sounding accomplishment, in Nanoscale Advances, has yielded strands of starch nanofibers that are just 372 nanometers wide, which is invisible to the naked eye and is even smaller than some wavelengths of light."The world's thinnest spaghetti" sounds silly, but starch can actually have important applications in medicine. For instance, nanofiber starches could help wounds heal when used in bandages, since they'd be able to keep out bacteria while allowing moisture through. Rather than going through…
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The New York Times says OpenAI deleted evidence in its copyright lawsuit
21 Nov

The New York Times says OpenAI deleted evidence in its copyright lawsuit

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Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking told Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver a chilling but memorable hypothetical story a decade ago about the potential dangers of AI. The gist is a group of scientists build a superintelligent computer and ask it, “Is there a God?” The computer answers, “There is now” and a bolt of lightning zaps the plug preventing it from being shut down. Let’s hope that’s not what happened with OpenAI and some missing evidence from the New York Times’ plagiarism lawsuit.Wired reported that a court declaration filed by the New York Times on Wednesday says that OpenAI’s engineers accidentally erased evidence…
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Report: Amazon is likely to face an EU antitrust investigation next year
21 Nov

Report: Amazon is likely to face an EU antitrust investigation next year

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2025 could be a tense year for Amazon. reports that, according to its sources, Amazon “will likely” be investigated by the European Union (EU) for violating the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by allegedly promoting and offering its own products ahead of others in its online store.The decision to launch the investigation will be made by incoming EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera. Her term will start next month following outgoing chief , who is stepping down after serving two terms.Amazon denies that it violated the DMA. The EU’s antitrust regulators launched an investigation into in March over issues such as fees…
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