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04 May

Elon Muskâ€™s SpaceX gets a company town in Texas

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Residents near Boca Chica Beach in Texas have voted to become a city called Starbase. | Photo by GABRIEL CARDENAS/AFP via Getty Images<br> South Texas voters mostly employed by Elon Muskâ€™s SpaceX have approved a measure to incorporate as Starbase, a new city in Texasâ€™ Cameron County near the companyâ€™s Boca Chica Beach launch site on the Gulf of Mexico. The final tally was 212â€“6 in support of the measure, reports The Associated Press. The election took place following a petition that had gained enough signatures by February to force a vote, in which just 283 people were eligible to…

01 May

The investigation into Pete Hegsethâ€™s Signal group chats is growing

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivers remarks to the press during a meeting with UK Defense Secretary John Healey at the Pentagon on March 6th, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. The Pentagon Inspector General is expanding an inquiry into Defense Secretary Pete Hegsethâ€™s questionable Signal group chats. According to the Wall Street Journal, the investigation is now also looking into a second chat, as well as exactly how classified information was transferred from a secure government computer onto Hegsethâ€™s account on his personal devices. Beyond the â€œHouthi PC Small Groupâ€ that inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine to…

27 Apr

iPhone 17 has 12GB RAM

hightechz.net0 CommentsProducts, Technology, Trendingai, apple, Galaxy S25 Ultra, ios, iphone, iphone 17, iPhone RAM, S25 Ultra, samsung, technology

According to a reliable source, the iPhone 17 could come with 12GB of RAM, on par with the Galaxy S25 Ultra. Apple has never really taken the iPhone's RAM seriously. It wasn't even mentioned at the launch event, nor is it prominently featured in the iPhone feature list on the company's website. Photo: Tom's Guide. The Cupertino giant has never tried to match Android flagships in terms of RAM, especially Samsung's high-end lineup. However, that could eventually change, with the iPhone 17 expected to have the same amount of RAM as the Galaxy S25 Ultra. Analyst Ming-chi Kuo predicts that…

24 Apr

Intel to lay off more than 20,000 employees

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Intel plans to cut 20% of its workforce, or more than 20,000 people, to save costs and streamline its organization. Reuters reported that Intel will announce plans to cut its workforce by 20% this week as part of a turnaround plan by new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. As of December 28, 2024, Intel had 108,900 employees, including thousands of employees at Altera, an independent company co-owned by Intel and Silver Lake. Photo: Reuters. Intel previously laid off about 15,000 people in August 2024. The new cuts will mainly affect non-technical positions, such as administrative, sales, marketing and support functions. The manufacturing…

21 Apr

Warning about ‘hallucinated’ ChatGPT

hightechz.net0 CommentsAI, Technology, Trendingai, chat gpt, GPT o3, o4-mini, OpenAI, technology

A number of recent studies have shown that GPT o3 and o4-mini - the most powerful models in OpenAI's product portfolio - are fabricating false information more than their predecessors. Photo: Fireflies Just two days after announcing GPT-4.1, OpenAI officially launched not one but two new models, named o3 and o4-mini. Both models demonstrate superior inference capabilities with many powerful improvements. However, according to TechCrunch, this pair of new models still suffer from "hallucination" or fabricating information. In fact, they suffer from "hallucination" more than some of OpenAI's older models. According to IBM, hallucinations are when a large language model…

24 Mar

Alphabet Acquires Wiz for $32 Billion

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Alphabet, Google's parent company, has just announced the acquisition of cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32 billion. This is the largest deal in Alphabet's history, aiming to strengthen the security capabilities of Google's cloud services and compete more strongly with rivals such as Microsoft and Amazon. Wiz's homepage also announced that the company had merged with Google. Founded in 2020 by former members of Israel's 8200 cyber intelligence unit, Wiz has quickly become one of the fastest-growing software companies. The company provides advanced cloud security solutions that help businesses identify and remediate security risks in cloud environments. Prior to the acquisition,…

23 Mar

OpenAI CEO: Programmers Must Learn AI or Lose Their Jobs

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman estimates that AI is doing up to 50% of programming work in some companies, causing a sharp decline in the demand for programmers. In an interview with Stratechery, Sam Altman spent a lot of time talking about the shift in demand for programmers in the coming period. He emphasized that learning how to work with AI will be key to staying relevant in a rapidly changing technology landscape. The OpenAI chief compared learning to master AI tools today to learning programming skills when he was younger. "It's like when I graduated from high school, it was…

05 Mar

DeepSeek Dethroned

hightechz.net0 CommentsAI, Trendingai, apple, china, DeepSeek, ios, iphone, technology, Yuanbao

Tencentâ€™s chatbot Yuanbao has just surpassed DeepSeek to become the most downloaded iPhone app in China. Yuanbao integrates Tencentâ€™s proprietary AI technology, Hunyuan, along with DeepSeekâ€™s R1 reasoning model. This event highlights the fierce competition in Chinaâ€™s AI industry, as major tech giants race to develop smart chatbots to attract users, according to Bloomberg. Three of the five most downloaded free apps on China's App Store are AI chatbots. Photo: Bloomberg. Currently, three out of the top five free iPhone apps in China are AI chatbots, including Doubao from ByteDance, along with Tencentâ€™s Yuanbao and DeepSeek. DeepSeekâ€™s rapid rise in…

03 Mar

Cryptocurrency Market Surges Over $300 Billion After Trump’s Decision

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The cryptocurrency market skyrocketed after U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to include Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the national strategic reserve. Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies have skyrocketed thanks to the move to put them into the national reserve fund by the administration of US President Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters. According to Reuters, on March 2 (U.S. time), President Trump revealed the names of three cryptocurrencies that will be included in the U.S. strategic reserve. Immediately after the announcement, the prices of these assets surged dramatically compared to the rest of the market. Trump stated that an executive order…

28 Feb

Binance users want Pi network to be listed

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The number of users supporting the listing of Pi Network overwhelmingly surpasses the opposing option. However, there is still a long way to go before the cryptocurrency appears on Binance. The vote on Pi on Binance has results. Photo: Carryssaa. A community survey conducted by the world's largest crypto exchange revealed that 86% of participants support Pi. This marks a significant step toward its integration into the platform. However, the nearly 300,000 votes are non-binding, and the final decision still rests with the exchangeâ€™s team. Nonetheless, this optimistic signal has contributed to Pi's recent price growth against market trends. The…