Letter: the SIA urges the USPTO to drop its plan to impose annual patent fees of 1% to 5% based on the government's assessed value, replacing the flat-fee model
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Nvidia plans to build its first industrial AI cloud platform in Germany for European manufacturers, combining AI with robotics to assist carmakers like BMW
but warns Europe risks falling behind Mercury News : Nvidia CEO sees tenfold boost to Europe's AI computing power Mona Guichard / Tech Xplore : Nvidia marks Paris tech fair with Europe AI push Taipei ...
Microsoft says new accounts will be “passwordless by default”, asking people to use more secure methods like passkeys, push notifications, and security keys
Upgrade Your Email Account Today Vinayak Guhanarayan / MakeUseOf : You'll Never Have to Create a Microsoft Account Password Again Craig Donaldson / Pocket-lint : Microsoft makes passwords a thing of t...
Amazon launches 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband internet program, the first batch of 3,236 satellites that it plans to send into low-Earth orbit
and orbital overcrowding is a disaster waiting to happen Defense One : The D Brief: Jet falls off carrier; Yemen-bombing stats; Global defense-spending spike; Amazon's first satellites; And a bit more...
Binarly: UEFI Secure Boot is completely compromised on 200+ device models sold by Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and Supermicro due to a cryptographic key leak
hundreds of devices from Dell, Supermicro and more all affected, here's what we know Adam Conway / XDA Developers : PKFail puts hundreds of computers and laptops at risk and renders Secure Boot useles...
Mt. Gox starts repaying its customers, who will receive only ~15% of their lost bitcoin, which are now worth many times more than their total 2014 holdings
and it's freaking out crypto investors Mt. Gox : Notice regarding Repayment in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash Simon Sharwood / The Register : A decade after collapsing, crypto exchange Mt Gox repays some in...
Google says its greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48% in the past five years due to the expansion of the data centers that underpin its AI efforts
About this report Google's 2024 Environmental Report provides … Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Google's emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand The Keyword : Our 2024 Environmenta...