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After the semi-finals of the 14th Chunlan Cup on December 21, 2022, after the Chinese chess player Li Xuanhao defeated South Korea’s No. questioned. A few days later, events “reversed”. Regarding Yang Dingxin’s questioning, the Chinese Weiqi Association conducted an investigation and finally determined that there was no evidence for this allegation. According to the […]

Seattle Public Schools filed a lawsuit against TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram and their parent companies, alleging that the social media giants successfully exploited the fragile brains of young people for their own benefit and used psychological tactics to cause a mental health crisis for young people at school. The suit seeks the largest statutory

Programmers use ChatGPT to help them perfect their code, and cybercriminals turn to ChatGPT to help them perfect their malicious code. OpenAI’s general-purpose chatbot prototype, ChatGPT, makes it possible for less-skilled cybercriminals to quickly write malicious code. Security researchers have observed ChatGPT being used to write malicious code on underground hacking forums. Malicious programs currently

Microsoft will release the last security update for Windows 8.1 in its regular update Tuesday. Windows 8.1 does not get the same Extended Security Updates treatment as Windows 7, so after the last security update is released, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 8.1, users can continue to use it, but Microsoft or anyone else will

Singaporean entrepreneur, innovative technology founder and computer sound system pioneer Sim Wang Fu died on January 4 at the age of 67. Shen Wangfu may not be a household name today, he founded Creative Technology in 1981, the company launched the earliest consumer sound card, the Sound Blaster, at a time when if you wanted

In ancient Athens, only the richest people paid taxes directly, and the taxes were used to fund the most important expenses of the city-state-the navy and gods. As surprising as it may sound today, most of these taxpayers not only happily paid their taxes, but also boasted about how much they paid. Money was as

Chinese researchers recently published a paper on the preprint platform arxiv, reporting that the number of qubits required to crack a 2048-bit RSA key can be significantly reduced, and existing quantum computers can do it. Renowned quantum computing expert Scott Aaronson thinks the paper is wrong. The optimization method proposed by the Chinese researchers is

More than 500,000 investors in bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network do not own their account numbers. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn ruled that the cryptocurrencies belonged to Celsius and not depositors. The Celsius terms of use, which the judge found few users read, mean that crypto assets are the property of Celsius. The ruling highlights the

Messaging application WhatsApp has announced the addition of proxy server support, allowing users to bypass blocking access to WhatsApp through proxy servers. WhatsApp said helping users in blocked areas continue to use the app was the main motivation for developing the feature, citing Iran as an example, saying months of outages were a human rights

At CES 2023, AMD demoed a behemoth: the APU MI300 designed for the data center. AMD’s previous APU products were mainly aimed at consumer grades, such as notebook computers and game consoles. The MI300 is the first data center/HPC class APU product, and with 146 billion transistors, it is the largest and most complex chip

SpaceX completed its first launch in 2023 on January 3, carrying out the Transporter-6 mission, one of the loads is Caltech’s Momentus Vigoride, which demonstrates space solar power generation technology, collects solar energy in space and then wirelessly sends power back to the ground . Space solar power offers a method of generating electricity from

Neuroscientists at the University of North Carolina in the United States conducted serial brain scans of middle school students aged 12-15, a period of rapid brain development. The researchers found that children who regularly viewed social media feeds around the age of 12 showed a clear sign of increased sensitivity to social rewards from their

For the first time, Denmark has had a year without bank robberies due to the decline in the use of cash. An increasingly cashless society has led banks to reduce cash services, leaving looters with less and less loot, according to the Danish finance industry union. The union said it was unbelievable, given that in