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The company even approached Johansson to voice its new system, but she declined. Now, OpenAI has removed the flirty female voice after Johansson revealed her lawyers had contacted the firm. OpenAI introduced its newGPT-4omodel earlier this month. As you could hear in the video below, the Sky voice sounds a lot like Scarlett Johansson. It added that hundreds of voice-acting submissions were reviewed over a period of five months last year....

Should matters escalate to that level, it is believed that TSMC would be safeguarded one way or another. The company has even run simulations on what a possible invasion might look like, the people said. In reality, the companies likely wouldn’t ever have to remotely turn off the machinery. TSMC is a massive operation that requires resources from the global supply chain to operate. The US may also play a role in the matter should a takeover happen....

However, this won’t be just another AWS availability zone. The European Sovereign Cloud is being billed as an independent cloud environment separate from AWS’s existing global infrastructure. AWS employees outside the bloc will not have any access. Featured on TechSpot

Two California college students stumbled upon a way to get free laundry services by exploiting a security vulnerability. The flaw remains unfixed. The flaw exists between CSC’s mobile app, “CSC Go,” and its backend servers. He then quickly wrote a simple script instructing the app to start the machine. He figured there was no way his script would work since he had no money in his laundry account. To his surprise, the machine lit up and displayed the words “Push Start....

Using Windows XP in 2024? Another sketchy file was pretending to be from Google, with the publisher being listed as “www.google.com.” The attacks continued unabated, with more viruses installing themselves on the machine with elevated privileges. However, Microsoft ended mainstream support for XP in 2009, while extended support ended in 2014. Featured on TechSpot

Microsoft’s refreshed Surface Pro is its most flexible 2-in-1 to date, with improvements across the board. The display is said to be coated in Corning Gorilla Glass 5 for enhanced durability. Multitaskers will appreciate support for up to three external 4K displays as well as dual UBS 4 ports. It ships running Windows 11 out of the box, and the whole thing weighs just 1.97 pounds. Another $600 upsell gets you a model with 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD....

Fortunately, the company has a plan to avoid a repeat. In early May, the company detailed some of the challenges experienced thus far. The next implant is reportedly scheduled for June, the publication’s source added. Image credit:Alina Grubnyak Featured on TechSpot

With so much capacity already spoken for, it’s no surprise the market remains incredibly tight. The nationwide vacancy rate for data centers is at a razor-thin 3.7% currently. Such scarcity economics are allowing owners to really cash in average rents spiked 19% over the last year. Therise of generative AImodels is only supercharging data needs further. There’s no end in sight to the data center space crunch. Historically, an influx of new construction and investor money would ease pricing pressures....

Western Digital’s portable 2.5-inch HDDs are now available in 6TB variants. The different drives feature similar specifications with minor connectivity and compatibility differences. The standard Mac version also ships with a USB-C adapter, but its cable is USB-A. Although only some models carry Mac labels, all of the drives can support macOS. However, the Windows My Passport and My Passport Ultra must be formatted to work on Macs. Using the Mac editions on Windows only requires downloading an HFS+ driver, with no reformatting required....

The operators of the website Serial Port have recently revivedArchie, the internet’s first search engine. Its FTP search and indexing functions are available to the public again after languishing in obscurity for years. Finding and rebuilding the ancient search engine took months of detective work. The final version of Archie, version 3.5, was released in 1996. This was just enough for Serial Port to rebuild the historic search engine and host a new server....

So, one might say “it depends.” Can your CPU achieve your desired frame rate in a given title? It’s a straightforward concept, yet, unfortunately, many gamers don’t seem to grasp it. That’s really the goal here, so good stuff. We mention the core count as that’s key to why we’re here. This is also why the7800X3Dis a much faster gaming CPU than the7950X. It’s also significantly faster thanIntel’s Core i9-10900K, a 10-core processor....

The enormously successful Call of Duty franchise has entertained first-person shooter fans on all platforms since 2003. The Call of Duty franchise has sold over 425 million units as of October 2023. In addition to sales earnings, Activision collects additional revenue through its in-game stores and microtransactions. The next game in the series arrives in October this year, barring any upsets. It would be the first real change to Activision’s traditional business model imposed by its new owner....

GTA 6 is reportedly in thefinal stagesof development. We have already had a couple of early looks at what Rockstar is cooking. In September 2022, a hacker posted more than 90videos and screenshotsof early development content from the game. That said, the leaks did little to damper excitement. The game is set in the Miami-inspired Vice City, though this one takes place during modern times. Rockstar would really have to go out of its way to screw up this this mega cash cow....