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AI images are getting harder to spot, but physics still gives them away if you know where to look

8 May 2026 at 03:06

A study published in the journal Science explains that while modern image generators are rapidly improving, the models behind them remain fundamentally ignorant of how light and geometry work in the real world. Measuring simple details like reflections or shadows can still give away a fake photo – that gap,...

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Samsung is pulling TVs and appliances from China after losing $138 million to local competition

7 May 2026 at 17:32

The South Korean technology giant said it will make every effort to minimize the impact for existing customers, and is reviewing its support infrastructure for business partners. The decision won't affect Samsung's other divisions in the region, meaning they will continue to sell products such as smartphones and tablets as...

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Open-source project wants to bring stereoscopic 3D gaming back from the dead

7 May 2026 at 16:29

The recently unveiled "wiz3D" project is designed to "resurrect" stereoscopic support in older games, allowing them to run with compatible goggles and other stereo display devices. The open-source tool acts as a stereoscopic 3D wrapper, injecting hooks into gaming APIs to generate real-time stereo 3D output on modern Windows systems....

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Project Mariner is dead, but Google's browser-controlling AI plans are not

7 May 2026 at 15:03

Google first announced Project Mariner back in December 2024. An extension for an experimental build of Chrome, Mariner could execute multi-step commands to browse websites, use Google search, retrieve specified information, go shopping, and more. Google positioned the agent as assisting with tasks that are usually tedious for humans.

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AMD's next Epyc server chip debuts this year with 256 cores and 70% better performance

7 May 2026 at 14:31

During an investor call following the release of AMD's first-quarter 2026 earnings, CEO Lisa Su confirmed that the Epyc Venice processors remain on schedule for launch later this year. The server CPUs will mark the debut of the Zen 6 architecture and AMD's first move to TSMC's 2nm process technology.

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SpaceX will help power Claude with 220,000 Nvidia GPUs despite Elon's attacks on Anthropic

7 May 2026 at 13:49

SpaceXAI, the combined company formed after SpaceX absorbed xAI earlier this year, announced that Anthropic will use compute capacity from Colossus 1, the Memphis data center Musk has repeatedly described as one of the world's largest AI supercomputers. The site offers more than 300 megawatts of new capacity and over...

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Gen Z is turning subscriptions into short-term rentals for shows, movies, and games

7 May 2026 at 13:15

One of the clearest signals in the data is how Gen Z approaches streaming. The report finds that 59% of users in that group subscribe to and unsubscribe from platforms specifically to watch a single show or film. In effect, streaming subscriptions have become temporary access points rather than ongoing...

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A student halted multiple Taiwan bullet trains by spoofing the rail network's emergency radio signals

7 May 2026 at 10:19

Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) told local media that on April 5, a 48-minute stoppage affected four trains – though some outlets say it was three trains. The disruption was caused by a General Alarm signal that triggered emergency response protocols instructing the trains to stop manually.

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Microsoft made Copilot a co-author on every VS Code project, reverted after developers revolted

6 May 2026 at 20:04

A recent pull request effectively turned Copilot into a "co-author" for every programming project created in Visual Studio Code – even when the programmer behind the screen did not use Copilot at all. Users informed Microsoft that they did not like the change, criticizing the company for adding more "slop"...

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Hackers used Daemon Tools' own website to silently install backdoors on thousands of PCs for nearly a month

6 May 2026 at 19:17

Cybersecurity researchers at Kaspersky found that the attack compromised multiple versions of Daemon Tools, from 12.5.0.2421 through 12.5.0.2434. What made the campaign particularly difficult to detect was that the malicious installers were distributed directly from the official website and signed with legitimate digital certificates belonging to AVB Disc Soft, the...

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Game engines were built for video games, but Japan is finding more interesting things to do with them

6 May 2026 at 16:49

A recent report by Nikkei Asia highlights several interesting cases in which 3D engines are being used for far more than simply powering commercial video games. Japanese sources describe the "extended life" of popular SDKs such as Unity and Unreal Engine, which together account for around 70% of the traditional...

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Nvidia partners with Corning to build the fiber optic backbone for next-gen AI data centers

6 May 2026 at 16:10

Nvidia said the deal will expand Corning's US-based optical connectivity manufacturing capacity tenfold and boost its domestic fiber production capacity by more than 50%. Collectively, the new facilities will create north of 3,000 high-paying jobs, we are told. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed, nor was a timeline...

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