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Chinese Firms Bypass U.S. Export Controls to Access Nvidia AI Chips
Chinese companies are circumventing U.S. export controls to access Nvidia‘s high-end AI chips, despite efforts by the Biden administration to restrict their availability. According to Wall Street Journal, Chinese engineers are utilizing decentralized GPU rental services and global brokers to access Nvidia’s powerful H100 AI chips without physically importing them…
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Self-Destructing Bullet Patented by US Army
One of the largest contributors to technologies growth is the armed forces, with people looking at everything from mounting rail-guns to ships to being able to inject a sponge into people to stop gunshot wounds from bleeding. The latest patent that the U.S. Army has filed for though is designed to prevent harm,…
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U.S. Agencies Told to Find Ways Through Encryption
Security is one of this year’s biggest buzzwords when it comes to technology, with cases like Apple vs the FBI. With everyone wanting to protect their data, from you and me to companies like VTech and TalkTalk looking to protect you from the hacks that left their reputation damaged and open…
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Navy Looking to Deploy Railgun on Destroyer
Railguns used to a work of fiction, propelling weapons on mecha suits and spaceships to fight aliens and space pirates. This changed several years ago now when BAE systems revealed a working railgun, and even more recently people started working on handheld railguns. With the original plan to mount a test railgun…
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The US And Europe Can’t Agree On Data Sharing
It’s been well-known for a while now that information, online and offline, has always been searched for and monitored. From GCHQ to the NSA, it sometimes seems like the entire alphabet is watching your every move online. With items like the ‘snooper charter’ making changes to digital monitoring, many countries are yet to…
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Women Own More Consoles than Men According to New Survey
It’s always interesting when people release studies on video games and even more interestingly their users. While asking people for their opinions and ideas in polls may not be the best way to get accurate figures, it’s always interesting to see what people come back with. This time, the interesting figure…
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White House Orders New Measures to Combat Breaches In Digital Security
Earlier we mentioned how OPM (Office of Personal Mangement) in the US found they had been hacked with thousands of records accessed, including those relating to background checks for security clearances, something which if true leaves their employees open to blackmail and a whole host of actions that are unpleasant…
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Twitter Officially Announces the Commercial Buy Button
It has been rumoured and hinted in various ways for a while, and now it has become a hard fact. Twitter is introducing the Buy Button into their page and mobile apps. It will just be tested on a “small percentage of U.S. users” to begin with, but the test…
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U.S Judge rejects Apple’s injunction against Samsung
In the latest fight of the ongoing patent war between Apple and Samsung, a U.S. judge has rejected Apple’s latest bid for a permanent injunction against Samsung, and it seems the blows they two are dealing to each other are getting smaller and smaller. In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh…
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U.S. State Accuses Oracle of Lying, Fraud and Racketeering
The state of Oregon, U.S, has sued Oracle America Inc. and six of its top executives on Friday. Reason for the lawsuit is their failing to deliver a working website for the Affordable Care Act program, also known as Obamacare. Oregon had paid Oracle around $240 million dollars for a system…
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U.S. Navy Testing Pilotless Helicopters
The Naval Research Labratory has been testing pilotless helicopters for some time now. In fact, they’ve been using them in Afghanistan already but due to their inefficiencies in operating the technology it isn’t being used to its full potential. Marines primarily use the unmanned helicopters for the delivery of items…
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U.S. & China To Setup A Joint Cyber Security Team
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the United States and China has agreed that both the countries need to work on Cyber Security. This would be an area where both the countries, especially China, will be able to earn each other’s trust and cooperation, as told by China’s…
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FCC To Give Small Carriers A Chance
The Anti-trust division justice Departments tells FCC that that they need to make sure that smaller wireless carrier companies, Sprint and T- Mobile, need to get access to low-frequency spectrum during the auction to ensure that the competition is maintained. Currently, FCC is drafting the rules for spectrum auctions of…
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