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The iStorage/Kanguru Datashur Pro+C cryptographically-secured USB-C drive is designed to keep government, business, and personal secrets safe. The drive is locked with a PIN code, and the data is protected by AES-XTS 256-bit hardware encryption.

The Chinese AI firm has improved upon its top-ten ranked Deepseek V2 LLM with the launch of Deepseek V3. The LLM is significantly cheaper than most competing AI due to careful optimization of the training process.

The ruling concludes more than 10 years of litigation and orders the company to dismantle the 150-megawatt wind farm, which spans 8,400 acres.

Finnish authorities detained a Russian-linked oil tanker after multiple undersea cables, including a major power connection between Finland and Estonia, were damaged in the Baltic Sea. The incident adds to growing concerns about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure connecting NATO nations.

Chinese memory maker CXMT is expected to snag about 15 percent of the worldwide DRAM market by the end of 2025, thanks to ramped-up production and competitive pricing. They've done relatively well in mobile markets, but they're still facing some challenges in breaking into enterprise sectors and growing globally, primarily because of trade restrictions.

Foldables have apparently failed to gain widespread adoption. On the contrary, the demand for such devices appears to be dwindling, at least according to recent reports from industry insiders and analysts. Samsung, in particular, seems to have dialled back their sales forecast for their 2025 foldables, the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Flip7.

Microsoft has reportedly increased its 365 subscription prices in Australia and select South Asian countries. The Redmond technology giant is now offering customers Copilot to justify the increase.

A $1,000-a-month universal basic income not only changed how people handled their money but also sparked business ambitions. It had a bigger impact on African Americans and women. The study shows that giving people a guaranteed income can work as another way to fund business ideas and push back on some of the usual doubts about UBI programs.

OpenAI has hit a roadblock with its GPT-5 model. Training it costs a staggering $500 million per attempt, and there’s just not enough high-quality data to go around. Even after 18 months of work and dozens of executives leaving the company, OpenAI has only managed to make small improvements compared to GPT-4.

Oklo, backed by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is expected to have its first commercial reactor online by late 2027. The agreement spans 20 years and is set to deliver 12 gigawatts of electricity.

Lenovo appears to be doing it: On the new Lenovo ThinkPad X9 series that leaked out on Twitter, the Chinese manufacturer is seemingly killing off the famous and iconic red TrackPoint. The new ThinkPad laptop lineup comes in two sizes, and it adopts a design that looks very similar to the Apple MacBook Air, radically breaking with the established ThinkPad design.

Microsoft is reportedly looking to add more non-OpenAI models to its repertoire of Copillot products for enterprise users. OpenAI's GPT models have been a selling point for Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Netflix has filed a lawsuit against Broadcom, accusing the company's subsidiary, VMware, of infringing patents related to virtual machines. Netflix says Broadcom and VMware infringed five patents.

The White House has announced that the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) has opened an inquiry into Chinese trade practices for "foundational" semiconductors. China has strongly objected to the move.

Japan's Fair Trade Commission is set to declare Google guilty of violating the country's antimonopoly act, according to a new report from Nikkei. The problem stems from Google's contracts with smartphone manufacturers.

The Italian Data Protection Authority has fined OpenAI €15 million for violating GDPR laws. The agency said OpenAI processed personal information without legal basis and ordered it to run a six-month information campaign in Italy.

Donald Trump, the US President-elect, showed support for TikTok at his first rally since the presidential elections last month. The Chinese social media platform is fighting against a law that will see it banned in the US in January.

xAI, the AI startup founded by Elon Musk, is testing a standalone iOS app for its chatbot, Grok, in limited countries. The app is in beta and offers all the chatbot's generative AI features without being tied to the X app.

CheckMag The impending end of Windows 10 support (October 2025) from Microsoft means that many owners of older computers will have to switch to a different operating system. One alternative could be Google's free ChromeOS Flex, which runs quite well on weak hardware.

Intel's Core Ultra 200S launch faced five performance issues, with drops ranging from 6 percent to 30 percent. Various updates have fixed four problems, while the final optimization package is set for January 2025. A comprehensive performance review will be presented at CES 2025.

A YouTuber has been investigating Honey for a while, and his findings are rather alarming. Apparently, it overrides any affiliate links on the checkout page, effectively denying the creator that got you there their commission.

Russia is developing its own EUV lithography technology with an 11.2 nm wavelength approach, diverging from ASML's established 13.5 nm standard. The project, led by scientist Nikolay Chkhalo, aims to create more cost-effective machines with lower throughput than ASML.

Mara has acquired a wind farm in Hansford County, Texas, for $240 million. The wind farm, with a 240 MW interconnection capacity and 114 MW nameplate capacity, will power a data center Mara plans to develop at the site, providing 100% renewable energy and eliminating marginal energy costs.

Epson has announced the settlement of its recent legal dispute with AWOL Vision. The company raised concerns regarding the brightness measurements given for the LTV-3000 Pro and the LTV-2500 projectors. As part of the agreement, AWOL Vision has agreed to lower the estimates for these two models.

The agreement was reached in connection with multiple ergonomics cases under investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). As part of the settlement, Amazon is required to take steps to address hazardous working conditions.

The aircraft manufacturer is set to begin production in early 2026, with a launch date scheduled for the end of the same year.

When Lenovo did not announce a ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 4 this year, people wondered what would happen with the most compact and lightweight ThinkPad laptop. With the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 on the market now, it is clear that the slightly larger X1 Carbon takes over the position of the X1 Nano, as it weighs less than 1 kg as well.

It's no secret that Apple isn't the biggest fan of the EU's interoperability mandates in the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and is now using Meta's interoperability requests as an example against it.

Microsoft-owned code repository GitHub has announced a free version of its AI code completion tool Copilot for Visual Studio Code. The company also announced that it now had 150 million developers on the platform.

Intel CPUs are not exactly fan favorites at the moment, as Mindfactory's CPU sales data for the past three weeks shows AMD dominating the charts. The situation is so bad for Intel that the new Arrow Lake chips account for a fraction of the sales of AMD Zen 5 chips.

Swedish networking company Ericsson has won an initial ruling in a patent infringement lawsuit against Motorola and Lenovo. If the ruling is upheld, Motorola could face a sales ban in the US.

Rumors about a Gmail alternative from X have been circulating for a while. Recently, Musk hinted in discussions on his social media platform that a webmailer is in the works, designed to be exceptionally minimalist and user-friendly.

Ireland's Data Protection Commission has fined Meta €251 million for a 2018 Facebook security breach affecting 29 million users. Hackers exploited Facebook's View As feature, which lets users see a public view of their profiles.

WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg added a “pineapple is delicious on pizza” checkbox after a court order removed a prior login prompt. The move has sparked criticism over professionalism and leadership in the community.

In a move to enhance domestic electric vehicle (EV) production, the U.S. Department of Energy has finalized a groundbreaking loan of $9.63 billion to the BlueOval SK joint venture, a collaboration between Ford Motor Company and South Korean battery manufacturer SK On. Marking the largest loan ever allocated from the government's Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program, the funding will facilitate the construction of three state-of-the-art battery manufacturing plants located in Tennessee and Kentucky.

In a landmark settlement with OAIC, Meta has agreed to a $50 million payout for Australians impacted by the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018.

Meta's new software update for Ray-Ban smart glasses adds live AI, live translations, and Shazam integration. Live AI and live translation are early access previews, and voice commands are limited to English, French, and Italian.

American aerospace and defense manufacturer Lockheed Martin has set up a new subsidiary, Astris AI, to help adopt AI solutions in US defense industrial bases and companies with high assurance requirements.

Waymo, Google parent Alphabet's autonomous driving arm, will begin testing self-driving cars in Japan's capital next year, marking the company's first international expansion after operating in the US since 2009.

At present, Starlink is virtually unrivaled when it comes to fast internet via satellite, apart from mobile communications and fiber optics. The EU is now striking back and, together with private satellite operators, is investing 10.6 billion euros in a network called Iris².

Intel laptops of the last few years had bad battery life. At long last though, it seems there is a light at the end of the tunnel: Intel Lunar Lake improves the power efficiency and thus battery life. The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is the perfect laptop to exemplify Intel's effiency development throughout the last years.

While no details about the particular processor (or processors) developed so far, Chinese media has just unveiled that Gree Electric is now producing its own chips, six years after announcing its plans in this field. All research, design, and manufacturing efforts were funded without the government's involvement.

OpenAI has released ChatGPT Projects, an organizational tool for your chats and files, similar to Google's NotebookLM. The feature lets you organize all your chats and documents into separate groups for easier management.

Thanks to the changes in licensing requirements announced by the local Department of Communication and Digital Technologies, Starlink could enter South Africa next summer. However, this is not certain yet, although Elon Musk's satellite-based internet service gained political support in the country already.