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India orders mandatory security app on phones, Apple refuses to comply
Posted on Tuesday December 02, 2025
The Indian government wants all major smartphone makers operating in the country to install a state-sponsored app for "security" purposes. Sources speaking with Reuters said India's telecom ministry privately pressed manufacturers to support the tool, which the sources described as behaving like persistent malware that users cannot easily remove.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
No, ChatGPT is not starting to show users ads, says OpenAI
Posted on Tuesday December 02, 2025
A screenshot showing ChatGPT suggesting the Peloton app during an unrelated conversation blew up the internet on Monday. Many users feared the chatbot had begun displaying ads – even for paying customers. The screenshot, shared on X by AI enthusiast Kol Tregaskes, showed what appeared to be an ad for Peloton.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia dominates discrete GPU market with 92% share despite shifting focus to AI
Posted on Tuesday December 02, 2025
According to a new report from Jon Peddie Research, Nvidia held a 92 percent share of the discrete GPU market in Q3 2025, down from 94 percent in the previous quarter. AMD grew its market share to seven percent, registering a 0.8 percent sequential increase, while Intel gained 0.4 percent...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is back in chipmaking with an xLight deal worth up to $150M
Posted on Tuesday December 02, 2025
The funding comes from the 2022 Chips and Science Act, specifically from a tranche reserved for early-stage companies developing technologies that could reshape advanced manufacturing.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Raspberry Pi 5 gets a new 1GB model – and a wave of price hikes
Posted on Tuesday December 02, 2025
In announcing the new variant, founder Eben Upton also revealed price increases for select Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 models. He said the hikes are intended to offset the unprecedented rise in the cost of LPDDR4 memory, and largely mirror adjustments made to their Compute Module products earlier in the year.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
A supervolcano caldera in the US could host the world's largest lithium deposit to date
Posted on Tuesday December 02, 2025
The McDermitt Caldera most likely hosts the world's largest deposit of lithium trapped in claystone. Located on the Nevada – Oregon border, the extinct supervolcano could contain 20 to 40 million metric tons of lithium. Based on the current average US price of roughly $37,000 per ton, the caldera may...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Magician's implanted RFID chip is now useless after he forgets the password
Posted on Tuesday December 02, 2025
The experiment began as a quirky blend of performance art and technological curiosity. The chip was intended to serve as a prop for interactive magic tricks, activating routines when a smartphone with a compatible reader was pressed against Zi's hand.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The PlayStation 5 is powered by a GPU roughly equal to which PC graphics card?
Posted on Tuesday December 02, 2025
Is it closest to a Radeon, GeForce, or Intel graphics equivalent?Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Online shoppers in New York are seeing a new warning: "This price was set by an algorithm"
Posted on Tuesday December 02, 2025
New York is the first state in the US to require online retailers that use personalized pricing to display a disclosure. The regulation is part of a broader state budget measure targeting what regulators and consumer advocates call "surveillance pricing" or "algorithmic pricing" – adjusting prices for individual customers based...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Charlie Kirk leads Wikipedia's 2025 most-read list with nearly 45 million views
Posted on Tuesday December 02, 2025
In the day after his assassination at a university campus in December, Kirk's Wikipedia page was viewed 15 million times, or an average of over 170 times per second.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »