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Slashdot Asks: Do You Remember Your High School's 'Computer Room'?(2025-02-02 00:00:06)

Bill Gates' blog has been updated with short videos about his upcoming book, including one about how his school ended up with an ASR-33 teletype that could connect their Seattle classroom to a computer in California. "The teachers faded away pretty quickly," Gates adds, "But about six of us stayed h...
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One Blogger Helped Spark NVIDIA's $600B Stock Collapse(2025-02-01 21:00:03)

On January 24th Brooklyn blogger Jeffrey Emanuel made the case for shorting NVIDIA, remembers MarketWatch, "due to a number of shifting tides in the AI world, including the emergence of a China-based company called DeepSeek." He published his 12,000-word post "on his personal blog and then shared ...
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America's FDA Warns About Backdoor Found in Chinese Company's Patient Monitors(2025-02-01 18:00:13)

Thursday America's FDA "raised concerns about cybersecurity vulnerabilities" in patient monitors from China-based medical device company Contec "that could allow unauthorized individuals to access and potentially manipulate those devices," reports Reuters. The patient monitors could be remotely con...
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California Built the World's Largest Solar Power Tower Plant. Now It May Close(2025-02-01 15:00:03)

"Sometimes, government makes a bad bet..." writes the Los Angeles Times. Opening in 2014, the Ivanpah concentrated solar plant "quickly became known as an expensive, bird-killing eyesore." Assuming that state officials sign off — which they most likely will, because the deal will lead to lowe...
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Were DeepSeek's Development Costs Much Higher Than Reported?(2025-02-01 12:00:07)

Nearly three years ago a team of Chinese AI engineers working for DeepSeek's parent company unveiled an earlier AI supercomputer that the Washington Post says was constructed from 10,000 A100 GPUs purchased from Nvidia. Roughly six months later "Washington had banned Nvidia from selling any more A10...
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