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Musk review – epic study of the world’s richest and most banal man
Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary “Musk”, shown at the Venice film festival, presents an expansive study of Elon Musk, the trillionaire behind Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, X and Grok AI. Rather than a conventional biography, the film paints Musk as both dull and destructive: a self-styled visionary and Trump ally whose businesses now underpin national military capabilities,…
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How to update your GPU drivers in Windows 11
– Engadget has published a guide explaining several ways to update graphics card (GPU) drivers on a Windows 11 PC, noting that while such updates rarely bring exciting new features, they are important for fixing bugs and ensuring optimal performance, particularly for gaming. – The simplest method is through Settings > Windows Update, though this…
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‘Musk’ Review: Alex Gibney’s Mammoth Elon Musk Doc Is a Poleaxing Portrait of the Tech Titan as a Con Man Given Way Too Much Power to Be Stopped
Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary “Musk” offers an unflinching, meticulously researched account of Elon Musk’s rise from South African whiz kid to the world’s most powerful and controversial billionaire, painting him as a con man whose grip on wealth and influence has gone dangerously unchecked. Because Musk refused to participate, Gibney’s team compiled a database of…
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Apple says ‘Fold’ and competitors ask ‘how wide?’
Apple is expected to unveil its first foldable iPhone this week, seven years after Samsung launched the original Galaxy Fold. The Verge argues that, despite arriving late, Apple’s influence on the industry remains immense: rivals including Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi have already released passport-shaped foldables in recent months, a form factor widely believed to mirror…
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Extortion crews have their eyes on high-value AI data, Google warns
Google’s threat intelligence team has warned that extortion gangs are increasingly targeting companies’ proprietary artificial intelligence data, stealing sensitive materials such as AI models, source code and research before threatening to leak them unless a ransom is paid. Mandiant, Google’s incident response arm, detailed cases including a healthcare firm whose drug research and proprietary AI…
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Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
An investigation by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), shared with WIRED, found that Meta’s platforms hosted hundreds of AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) adverts, despite the company’s claims that new AI moderation tools would catch such content. This follows an earlier WIRED report that prompted Meta to delete around 50 similar ads last month,…
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AI will help find cure for cancer ‘within our lifetimes’, says Arm Holdings chief
Rene Haas, chief executive of the Cambridge-based chip designer Arm Holdings, has claimed that artificial intelligence will help find a cure for cancer “within our lifetimes”, arguing that modelling how DNA markers are affected by cancer is currently too complex for both humans and existing AI systems, but that increasingly sophisticated computers will eventually solve…
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“20 players is the sweet spot”: Guild Wars 3’s action game combat is a first for MMOs, but it doesn’t work at traditional raid scale
At Gamescom, Arenanet showed off Guild Wars 3, revealing that its signature action-combat system—featuring wall-running, gliding and momentum-based attacks—only works properly with groups of around 20 players, rather than the larger raid sizes typical of traditional MMOs. This matters because it marks a significant departure from genre conventions: rather than the taskbar-and-cooldown combat familiar from…
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How NASA Testing Changed US Food Inspection Forever
The article, adapted from Alex Davies’s book, traces how food-safety testing methods developed for NASA’s astronaut meals became the foundation for modern US food inspection. By the late 20th century, America’s traditional meat-inspection approach—physically examining animal organs for visible disease—could no longer keep pace with industrial-scale slaughterhouses or detect invisible threats like E. coli, a…
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Samsung and TSMC hope AMSL’s new machines will help address the chip shortage
Samsung and TSMC are joining Intel in adopting ASML’s High NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines, alongside a new joint initiative to move to larger 12-inch photomasks, in a bid to boost chip production capacity and yields. The move matters because it signals the world’s two largest chipmakers formally committing to next-generation lithography technology that…