Seagate claims hard drives are more environmentally friendly than SSDs

From Tom's Hardware: Global increases in carbon emissions are allegedly becoming a growing concern surrounding AI development. A report from Blocks and Files reveals that Seagate investigated three of the most popular data storage solutions based on carbon emission output. Out of the three options...

Instagram Launches Blend, A Shared Reels Feed For Friends

From Forbes: Instagram has announced a new feature called Blend, which creates a custom, invite-only Reels feed for you and your friends. You can invite a friend or group chat to create a Blend. Once accepted, Instagram will show you a custom Reels feed that is made out of suggestions for people in...

Infamous site 4chan taken down by a hacker from rival community

From PC World: A few days ago, on April 14, the infamous internet forum known as 4chan.org was subjected to a major hacking attack, which took down the site and made it inaccessible. As of this writing, the site remains down.

4chan has been embroiled in a long series of controversies since its...

OpenAI launches a pair of AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini

From TechCrunch: OpenAI announced on Wednesday the launch of o3 and o4-mini, new AI reasoning models designed to pause and work through questions before responding.

The company calls o3 its most advanced reasoning model ever, outperforming the company’s previous models on tests measuring math...

Nvidia, AMD Ramp at TSMC Arizona as U.S. Tariffs Loom

From EETimes: Nvidia and AMD this week said they are starting production at TSMC’s new chip facility in Arizona just as U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to levy tariffs on semiconductors a few days from now. The two events are not a coincidence, analysts told EE Times.

“Essentially, AMD and...

TikTok is getting its own version of community notes

From The Verge: TikTok has announced “Footnotes,” its own take on the community notes features that started on Twitter and have been spreading to other social networks. As elsewhere, it’s a crowd-sourced approach to moderation — TikTok says contributors will be able to “add relevant information to...

Google Is Sunsetting Country-Specific Search Domains

From CNET: Google is in the process of consolidating the many international domains names that lead to google.com, eliminating sites such as google.co.jp and google.ru for Japan and Russia because the company says it no longer needs so-called "country code top-level domain" names to provide local...

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