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The White House is using clips from popular video game Call of Duty in official posts about the war with Iran, just days after the U.S. entered an armed conflict in the Middle East. The footage is seen amid a compilation of images of U.S. warfare posted to the official White House X account. The clip begins with gameplay from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III , a scene depicting a kill streak animation in which a user unlocks the ability to launch a nuclear arsenal. The video is accompanied by the text "Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue." SEE ALSO: Disinformation on U.S.-Iran war takes over the internet To many, the post was an unsettling portrayal of a military strike that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Iranians , according to reports. A girl's elementary school in Minab was hit in an attack, killing dozens of children, and it's not clear if the school was an intended target by U.S. or Israeli forces. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It mig...

According to noted tipster MEGAsizeGPU, the new GeForce RTX 5050 variant will feature three 3GB GDDR7 memory modules operating at 28Gbps, instead of the 20Gbps GDDR6 modules used in the original version. The updated configuration will provide a total of 9GB of VRAM across a 96-bit memory interface, delivering up... Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/JspAzXM via

Apple has had an unusually busy week — no keynote required. In a flurry of press releases, the Cupertino company unveiled a new iPhone, a refreshed MacBook Air, a new MacBook Pro, a pair of new desktop displays, and the chips that power it all. If you're just getting up to speed, here's every major product Apple announced — and more importantly, what you need to know about each one. iPhone 17e Credit: Mashable/Apple The iPhone 17e , announced March 2, is built around Apple's latest-generation A19 chip — the same processor powering the flagship iPhone 17 lineup. It also adds C1X, a next-generation cellular modem the company says is roughly twice as fast as the modem in the iPhone 16e. The 6.1-inch Super Retina XDR display on the 17e now features Ceramic Shield 2, which Apple says offers three times the scratch resistance of the previous generation. SEE ALSO: Comparing iPhone 17e vs. iPhone 17: Is the new $599 phone good enough? The 17e's camera system ha...

Multiple laptop listings from both Lenovo and Asus now show an RTX 5070 mobile GPU packing 12GB of GDDR7. The whole thing started when a leaker known as Huang514613 spotted Lenovo's upcoming Yoga Pro 7i Aura Edition listing the card with 12GB. Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/1yYhsmu via

Before the dust had settled on the ruins of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school — a casualty of the recent U.S.-Israel military strikes against Iran, and one which resulted in the deaths of up to 168 adults and children — people were already engagement-farming online. Clips of digital flight simulators were passed off as real-time ops footage, while out-of-context images of battleships and old videos of aerial missile attacks were repurposed to sell users a tale of Iranian dominance. AI-edited content proliferated. According to experts, the posts had accumulated hundreds of millions of views in just a handful of days. SEE ALSO: AI has made us all surveillance targets. This tool helps you fight back. The growing number of viral posts — and the potential for even more to pop up as users earned cash for the viral falsehoods — was alarming enough to prompt X to edit its policies on misinformation . As of yesterday, X says it will suspend users from its Creator Revenue Sharing program if ...

The decision reportedly follows a series of service outages that have disrupted developer workflows on GitHub in recent months. Those incidents are believed to have prompted OpenAI engineering teams to explore greater control over their own development infrastructure. Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/wUpS9jE via

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