Chinese cities offer subsidies and cheap computing to lure AI film studios

He told the agency that officials from big cities and small towns now call him every day, asking him to move his technology or his company to them. He also runs the AI-generated content department at China Wit Media, a…

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New Clayface trailer's Batman Easter egg renews fan hopes over Caped Crusader cameo

Revealed yesterday (September 24), the movie's latest teaser offers a fresh look at its body horror vibes, slick cinematography, and Matt Hagen's tragic villain origin story. Thankfully, the DC Universe ( DCU ) film's…

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Motorola Signature 27 will be the first non-Pixel phone to support GrapheneOS

You see, this privacy-focused operating system that’s been built on top of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), was previously limited to Pixel phones — which is somewhat ironic given it’s likely to appeal to people…

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How CISA plans to shake up the CVE program

Under the plans, the agency wants to create a more resilient, transparent, and sustainable vulnerability management ecosystem, while making sure that CVE data remains accurate and responsive to a rapidly evolving threat…

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Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective!

She discovered it while making a delivery to Walmart on June 18 and was described in court documents as "a carrier/vendor of Pokémon cards." Kubasta initially pleaded not guilty to illegal use of a tracking device, but…

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Mathematician discovers rare eight-faced shape

Mathematicians can define abstract patterns, describing which vertices, edges and faces should connect. But working out whether those rules can actually be turned into an object in three-dimensional space , without parts…

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The first season of Heroes is almost perfect – here’s why

But that is exactly what happened to me, 20 years ago this month, when a show called Heroes first aired. As you may have gathered from the title, it followed ordinary people whose genes have blessed (or cursed) them with…

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What the end of tokenmaxxing means for AI ROI

Instead of incentivizing and measuring business output, many are measuring consumption and usage. While cutting AI usage seems like the natural solution, this doesn’t always work in practice. In fact, this can result in…

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Your files are in four places and nobody knows which one is right

The Register is hosting a private dinner in Soho on Tuesday 20 October for senior technology, infrastructure and data leaders, with LucidLink. Joe Fay takes the chair, it runs under the Chatham House Rule, and nothing…

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Why making AI too easy to use is a risk for your business

When there's no easy way out, we're forced to think differently and come up with something new. AI offers a shortcut around that. It gives instant answers with almost no effort needed. That's great for productivity in…

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