Firefox 145 includes measures against so-called ‘fingerprinting’, support for PDFs and, how could it be otherwise this year: a large language model for your address bar. Mozilla has released Firefox 145, the latest version of its browser. One of the major new features is the ability to read and add notes to PDF files. Users […]
Russia will issue government bonds priced in the Chinese currency, the yuan, for the first time in December. The Russian Ministry of Finance announced this on Wednesday. The move reflects the increasing economic entanglement between Russia and China as Russia grapples with Western sanctions stemming from the war in Ukraine. The government bonds, with maturities […]
Microsoft will invest $10 billion in a large AI data centre in Portugal. According to the American software company, this is one of the largest European investments this year. The data centre will be located in Sines on the Portuguese coast, approximately 150 kilometres south of the capital, Lisbon. The development is being carried out […]
Trump Mobile is keeping quiet about the delivery of its “all-American” smartphone, which customers have been expecting since the summer, according to the American tech site “Mashable.” The gold-colored T1 Phone, Trump Mobile’s flagship product, was originally scheduled to ship in August. The release was initially pushed back to October, but the website no longer […]
New York stock markets opened almost flat on Wednesday. A day earlier, losses were reported due to Wall Street investor concerns about the sharply increased valuations of large tech companies driven by optimism about AI. Chip company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), also a major player in the AI field, reported quarterly results and was subsequently […]
British police have released the name of the suspect in the stabbing on the Doncaster-to-London train: Anthony Williams. The 32-year-old man faces charges including attempted murder (10 counts) and possession of a weapon. On October 31, Halloween, the United Kingdom was shocked by a knife attack on a train bound for London. Ten people were […]
Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, have won a lawsuit against a French magazine. Paris Match had published photos of the Prince of Wales’s family’s ski vacation earlier this year. A French judge ruled that this violated the family’s privacy. “The Prince and Princess of Wales have been successful in legal proceedings brought in […]
Nvidia’s market capitalisation surpassed $5 trillion on Wednesday. The American chip giant is the first company ever to surpass that mark. What was still a question mark on Wednesday morning is now an exclamation point: chip giant Nvidia is worth $5 trillion. To be clear, that’s a 5 with no fewer than 12 zeros after […]
Elon Musk and his startup xAI have launched Grokipedia. The online encyclopedia is intended to counter the biased Wikipedia website, which Musk considers biased. On Monday evening, version 0.1 of Grokipedia debuted on the World Wide Web, already boasting over 885,000 AI-generated definitions. Wikipedia currently boasts 7 million English-language pages. The site is free to […]
The sale of TikTok’s US operations is expected to close on Thursday, according to the US Treasury Secretary. Oracle will acquire a major stake in the popular video streaming service. The streaming service must be sold to the US government to continue operating in the country. TikTok, owned by the Chinese company Bytedance, is currently […]
