Australia plans new law to hold AI companies responsible when their agents cause harm
Australia’s federal government is working on a law to force accountability onto AI companies, with legislation expected in Parliament next year. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed the plan, saying his government wants Australia to be the first nation in the world to hold AI companies criminally liable for technologies that…
A startup says its frame generation beats DLSS and runs on GPUs as old as the GeForce GTX 16 series
Users can now download an open beta to test Apex Compute’s claim that its neural rendering suite outperforms and outshines Nvidia DLSS frame generation. Super resolution and ray reconstruction (denoising) components are still in development.
Live updates: D.C. gunman fixated on grievances with condo association, people who knew him say – The Washington Post
- Live updates: D.C. gunman fixated on grievances with condo association, people who knew him say The Washington Post
- One dead, at least 4 injured during active shooting near Logan Circle NBC4 Washington
- Who was the Logan Circle shooter? Police say suspected gunman died while barricaded WUSA9
- Live updates: Doctor identified as D.C. gunman who killed 1, injured 4 over building dispute NBC News
- Here’s what we know about the victims of the DC mass shooting WJLA
Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s Ousted CEO, Was the Face of the A.I. Boom Powering the U.S. Economy
Nvidia’s ousted leader was a unique rhetorical and financial booster for investments that are driving economic growth.
1 killed, 4 injured in shooting in Washington, D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood; suspect is dead – CBS News
- 1 killed, 4 injured in shooting in Washington, D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood; suspect is dead CBS News
- One dead, at least 4 injured during active shooting near Logan Circle NBC4 Washington
- Social media account linked to D.C. shooter complained of disrepair, invoked man who killed healthcare CEO CBS News
- 1 killed, 4 wounded in Logan Circle gym shooting, suspect dead WUSA9
- One killed in Washington DC with four more injured – follow live BBC
A Frantic Search for Survivors in the Brooklyn Building Collapse
At one moment, an apartment building was standing. At another, it had tumbled into a hole. Ruin, and death, followed.
Without Jensen Huang, is it game over for GeForce?
Nvidia moved quickly to project continuity. In an internal memo, longtime director Harvey Jones told employees he would serve as the company’s first-ever board chair. Jones, a former Synopsys CEO, has sat on Nvidia’s board since its founding in 1993. The fact that Nvidia never had a separate chair until…
AMD fixes Radeon driver bug that was hammering SSDs
AMD’s latest Adrenalin 26.11.1 driver fixes a bug that caused excessive SSD writes on systems with Radeon RX 7000 series and newer GPUs, even when idle. Available as an optional update, the release also resolves excessive disk activity when moving or resizing application windows, addressing concerns over unnecessary SSD wear.
Trump says no deal needed with Iran, closes down Vance negotiations – The Washington Post
- Trump says no deal needed with Iran, closes down Vance negotiations The Washington Post
- Trump Says He’s Pulling Vance Off Iran Talks to Focus on Fraud Campaign The New York Times
- Trump tells Vance to shift focus away from Iran negotiations to targeting ‘corruption and crime’ at home WBAL-TV
- Trump orders Vance to focus on “corruption” in Democrat-run areas, not Iran Axios
- Live Updates: Trump says “we don’t need a deal with Iran,” as Tehran sticks to its demands CBS News
Trump Says He’s Pulling Vance Off Iran Talks to Focus on Fraud Campaign
The announcement on social media deepened questions about what the president’s plan is to end the war. “We don’t need a deal with Iran,” he wrote.
‘Punch in the gut’: Homes sales fall to their lowest in 16 years
Existing homes sales in October declined 8.8% from a year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors.
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Before Nvidia, founder and ex-CEO Jensen Huang designed processors for…
On his 30th birthday in 1993, Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia.
Casualties continue to rise after Brooklyn building collapses
First responders continue to search for survivors after a building in Brooklyn collapsed, leaving at least eight dead and dozens injured.
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Synology patches a critical NAS flaw that could let attackers in without logging in
A newly published security advisory discloses two serious vulnerabilities in DiskStation Manager (DSM), the Linux-based OS used in Synology NAS products, one of them rated critical. The storage maker warned that the flaws could be abused to remotely access and attack vulnerable devices, giving cyber-criminals – or rogue AI agents,…
