Wes Davis

In a new Project Taara blog post, Alphabet says it transmitted data at 10Gbps from one Taara chip to another, using only light beamed from the chip’s “hundreds” of software-controlled light emitters — an improvement on the mechanical beam-directing technique used by its traffic light-sized Taara Lightbridge.

Call center firm Teleperformance SE is rolling out an artificial intelligence system that “softens English-speaking Indian workers’ accents in real time,” aiming to “make them more understandable,” reports Bloomberg.

An Nvidia support page says the new hotfix (v572.65) drivers “are basically the same as the previous released version, with a small number of additional targeted fixes,” referring to issues with black screens on RTX 50 GPUs that drivers released earlier this week were also aimed at addressing.

Wired chronicles a Discord community’s work to unbrick the AI gadget after HP bought Humane.

Filed over the weekend by a WP Engine customer, the proposed class action lawsuit seeks an injunction to stop Automattic’s “meddling” with WordPress, writes ArsTechnica. From the outlet:

US director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard wrote in a letter that her lawyers are “working to provide a legal opinion on the implications” of the UK’s reported demand for a backdoor to all Apple users’ encrypted data breaks the Cloud Act agreement, reports Reuters.