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Age verification isn't sage verification inside OSes
49+ min ago (223+ words) Opinion There are two ways to look at the California Assembly Bill 1043, known as The Digital Age Assurance Act or DAAA. One is to say it is a 2025 law requiring operating systems and app stores to implement age verification during…...
Microsoft blames Samsung for C:\ drive problems
6+ hour, 3+ min ago (370+ words) Microsoft has blamed Samsung for some devices suffering C:\ drive access problems coincidentally close to March's Patch Tuesday. Users saw the message "C:\ is not accessible " Access denied" when trying to launch applications, including Office, browsers, and utilities such as Quick Assist....
Nvidia GTC: We predict an agentic AI enterprise hype fest
19+ hour, 40+ min ago (185+ words) Kettle It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - if you're an AI aficionado, that is, as chip giant Nvidia, now the most valuable company in the world, is kicking off its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on Monday. For this…...
Nanny state vs. Linux: show us your ID, kid
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (610+ words) Opinion A new wave of age verification laws requires kids and teenagers to register before they can use a computer. It's a different story with Linux and the other open source operating systems, like the BSDs. They have always been…...
Nvidia GTC 2026: What to expect at AI Burning Man
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (1207+ words) Nvidia has a bit of a problem. Popular generative AI workloads like code assistants and agentic systems generate massive quantities of tokens and need to move them at speed. But the GPU giant's chips currently struggle to deliver. That will…...
Rogue AI agents can work together to hack systems
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (1107+ words) AI agents work together to bypass security controls and stealthily steal sensitive data from within the enterprise systems in which they operate, according to tests carried out by frontier security lab Irregular. Although Irregular used some aggressive prompts that included…...
Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (522+ words) Please let there be "Xbork" as this appears in all the wrong places Organizations that rely on consumer-grade PCs or allow staff to bring their own devices to work, have something new to worry about: a virtual Xbox lurking inside…...
Lightmatter says latest photonics will halve DC fiber bill
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (553+ words) Unveiled ahead of OFC on Wednesday, Lightmatter's Passage L20 is designed for use in high-performance scale-up switches and accelerators like GPUs. But rather than integrating the optics directly into the switch ASIC, as Nvidia or Broadcom have done with some of…...
Most chatbots will help plan school shootings: Study
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (630+ words) You might expect a bot to have guardrails that prevent it from helping you plan a crime, but your expectations might be too high. According to a study, eight of ten major commercial chatbots will help you prepare to conduct…...
Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh
5+ day, 37+ min ago (570+ words) Intel has a new strategy for shoring up its eroding market share: Offering PC buyers more cores per dollar than arch-rival AMD in a refresh of its Arrow Lake range. Chipzilla, on Wednesday, revealed a tool it thinks can make…...