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After telling the YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed that it was putting its RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and 5070 Ti into “end-of-life status,” ASUS has backtracked on those comments and now says the GPUs will remain on sale.”Certain media may have received incomplete information from an ASUS PR representative regarding these products,” the company said in a dedicated press release.” The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB have not been discontinued or designated as end-of-life (EOL). ASUS has no plans to stop selling these models.”ASUS further clarified that supply fluctuations, primarily due to memory supply constraints,…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sent a cease and desist letter to xAI, days after his office launched an official investigation into the company over reports that Grok was generating nonconsensualIf you’ll recall, xAI and Grok have been under fire for taking images of real individuals and putting them in revealing clothing like bikinis upon random users’ requests.Bonta’s office demands that xAI immediately cease and desist from creating “digitized sexually explicit material” when the depicted individual didn’t consent to it or if the individual is a minor. It also demanded that xAI stop “facilitating or aiding and abetting the…
Getty ImagesThe White House has announced the first members of its Gaza “Board of Peace”, and the list of names will do little to dispel the criticism from some quarters that the US president’s plan resembles, at its heart, a colonial solution imposed over the heads of the Palestinians.There are still several unknowns – namely who else might be added, and the exact structure of what is currently a rather complicated layout.So far, no Palestinian names are included on the two separate senior boards that have been officially unveiled.One is a “founding Executive Board”, with a high-level focus on investment…
Nadine YousifSenior Canada reporterWatch: Canada-China trade relationship “more predictable” than with US, says CarneyPrime Minister Mark Carney’s new approach to Canada’s foreign policy can perhaps be distilled in one line: “We take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.”That was his response when asked about the deal struck with China on Friday, despite concerns over its human rights record and nearly a year after he called China “the biggest security threat” facing Canada. The deal will see Canada ease tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles that it imposed in tandem with the US in 2024. In…
AirPods work most smoothly with Apple hardware, but they also connect reliably to Android phones, Windows laptops and other Bluetooth devices. The pairing process depends on the platform in use although the basics remain the same. Once the AirPods are placed in pairing mode, most devices detect them quickly and handle the remaining steps in the background. The guide below explains how to pair AirPods with Apple products, how the process differs on newer iPhones that support H2 features and how to connect them to non-Apple devices.How to pair AirPods with Apple devicesApple builds AirPods to pair almost instantly with…
Reuters / Getty Images / EPAAjay Banga, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are among those on the committeeThe White House has released the names of the members who will form the Trump administration’s new “Board of Peace” for Gaza. With the US president as chair, the founding Executive Board will oversee the work of a committee of technocrats tasked with the temporary governance of Gaza – and its reconstruction.Each member of the executive board is expected to be in charge of a portfolio that will be “critical to Gaza’s stabilisation”, the White House added. But it is not yet clear…
The Syrian army is moving into areas east of Aleppo city, after Kurdish forces started a withdrawal.Syrian troops have been spotted entering Deir Hafer, a town about 50km (30 miles) from Aleppo.On Friday, the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia announced it would redeploy east of the Euphrates river. This follows talks with US officials, and a pledge from Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to make Kurdish a national language.After deadly clashes last week, the US urged both sides to avoid a confrontation. President al-Sharaa is seeking to integrate the Kurds’ military and civilian bodies into Syrian national institutions.In a statement…
I came out of my CyberGhost review with a positive opinion, feeling it had earned its spot in my best VPN roundup. However, even an expert review is subjective, and there’s a chance CyberGhost will not work for you. If that’s the case, here’s how to cancel your subscription.How to stop your CyberGhost subscription renewingCancelling your CyberGhost subscription won’t end it right away, unless you delete your account or get the refund (I’ll explain how to do both of those later). Instead, the way to cancel CyberGhost is to stop your subscription from renewing at the end of each billing…
President Yoweri Museveni has been declared the winner of Thursday’s election extending his four decades in power by another five years.He gained 72% of the vote, the election commission announced, against 25% for his closest challenger Bobi Wine, who has condemned what he described as “fake results”.Wine has called on Ugandans to hold non-violent protests.Museveni, 81, first came to power as a rebel leader in 1986 but since then has won seven elections. The election process was marred by violence and Wine, a 43-year-old former pop star, says that at least 21 people have been killed.The authorities have so far…
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has accused the US and Donald Trump of being responsible for “casualties, damage and slander” in his country during recent protests.In a speech on Saturday, Khamenei acknowledged that thousands of people had been killed during recent unrest, “some in an inhuman, savage manner” but blamed the deaths on “seditionists”.The US president has urged Iranian anti-government demonstrators to “keep protesting” and threatened military intervention if security forces kill them.Protests in Iran have claimed 3,090 lives, according to US-based Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), in unrest that started over the economy on 28 December.Since…