British watchdog fines company for sending 31,000 spam messages
A British financial services provider has been ordered to pay a fine of £50,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office, or ICO. The company sent more than 31,000 spam text messages to people who had not given their consent.The messages…
Download GNU Emacs 29.2
Version 29.2 of the GNU Emacs text editor has been released. This program, which is available for Linux, BSD, Windows and macOS, has been around for over forty years and the demand is more, what can it do not really? Version 29.2 is a…
Apple wants to open NFC to other payment services in the EU
Apple has offered to open up NFC in the EU to other payment services besides Apple Pay. The European Commission announced this on Friday. The EC would like to know from other parties, such as customers and competitors, what they think of…
Google may want to integrate Bard Assistant into Messages app
Google may want to integrate assistant Bard into the Messages app. This way, users can start a chat with the chatbot. Bard may also receive an image generator later this week.9to5Google looked at the latest beta apk from the Messages…
Apple Vision Pro does not include apps for YouTube, Spotify and Netflix at release
The Vision Pro headset will not have apps for YouTube, Spotify and Netflix when it is released on February 2. It is not known why the services do not want to release apps intended for the headset. Disney+ and Amazon Prime will come with…
Gartner: turnover in the chip market fell 11 percent, Intel is again the largest producer
Intel is again the largest chip manufacturer in the world, at least in terms of turnover. The company achieved a turnover of $48.667 billion last year, pushing Samsung out of the top spot. That company had a turnover of just under forty…
TrendForce: PCs must have at least 16GB of memory for AI applications
Microsoft will require that 'AI PCs' have at least 16GB of RAM. This is written by TrendForce, which says that neural processing units in such PCs must also be able to achieve 40 tera operations per second.TrendForce writes in an analysis…
‘Amazon wants to create a new, smarter Alexa and put it behind a subscription’
Amazon plans to partially put voice assistant Alexa behind a paywall. The company then wants to release a subscription called Alexa Plus, which will allow the assistant to speak smarter and more naturally. According to Business Insider,…
Haier sends takedown request to Home Assistant plugin developer
Haier has sent a takedown request to a developer who posted Home Assistant plugins on GitHub. The developer created plug-ins that allowed users to control devices such as air conditioners, ovens and vacuum cleaners locally via the smart…
CPU-Z for Arm64 architecture is out
Hardware identification tool CPU-Z has released for Windows with Arm64 hardware. The tool is similar to the x86 and x64 versions, but shows slightly different information about the hardware used. There is still a lack of benchmark…