Intel delays Ohio chip plant opening to next decade, was supposed to start production by 2026

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

Intel is pushing off the opening of its Ohio chip manufacturing facility, the embattled chipmaker said Friday.

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OpenAI plans to integrate Sora’s video generator into ChatGPT

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI intends to eventually integrate its AI video generation tool, Sora, directly into its popular consumer chatbot app, ChatGPT, company leaders said during a Friday office hours session on Discord. Today, Sora is only available through a dedicated web app OpenAI launched in December, which lets users access the AI video model of the same […]
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Block’s 30% plunge in February leads fintech sell-off, while Stripe shows benefit of staying private

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

Fintech stocks plummeted in February, paced by Block’s drop, but Stripe’s valuation soared to a near-record high in the private market.

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FAA clears SpaceX for another Starship test flight after explosion in January

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

SpaceX has attained authorization from regulators to fly its massive Starship rocket once again, the FAA announced Friday.

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IBM Completes HashiCorp Acquisition for $6.4 Billion, Expanding Hybrid Cloud Offerings

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

HashiCorp brings infrastructure provisioning that will help some IBM products run more smoothly in hybrid cloud environments.

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Skype Will Shut Down on May 5, As Microsoft Shifts to Teams

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft is pivoting to support Teams instead. Microsoft 365 head Jeff Teper encouraged Skype users to migrate their Skype contacts to Teams.

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$1.5B Bybit Hack is Linked to North Korea, FBI Says, in Potentially the Largest Crypto Heist Ever

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

The FBI referred to the attack as “TraderTraitor,” a malicious campaign linked to North Korean state-sponsored hackers the Lazarus Group.

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Researchers uncover unknown Android flaws used to hack into a student’s phone

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools. On Friday, Amnesty International published a report detailing a chain of three zero-day vulnerabilities developed by phone-unlocking company Cellebrite, which its researchers found after investigating the hack of a student protester’s phone in Serbia. The […]
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Google Sheets gets a Gemini-powered upgrade to analyze data faster and create visuals

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

Google is giving Sheets a Gemini-powered upgrade that is designed to help users analyze data faster and turn spreadsheets into charts using AI. With this update, users can access Gemini’s capabilities to generate insights from their data, such as correlations, trends, outliers, and more. Users now can also generate advanced visualizations, like heatmaps, that they […]
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Amazon’s Ocelot Chip Slashes Quantum Errors by 90%, Challenging Industry Rivals

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Techme101

Amazon enters the quantum race with Ocelot, aiming to rival Google and Microsoft. The prototype chip could advance error correction and bring practical quantum computing closer.

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