October will be the last month for Microsoft to offer support for Windows 10 Office apps
Microsoft has said that when the support for Office apps ends in October this year, “the applications will continue to function as before” and there could be “performance and reliability issues over time.” This comes after Microsoft said at CES that refreshing an old Windows 10PC will be more important than buying a new TV or phone this year.
Sean Duffy is the person Trump has picked to be his secretary of transportation
US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Sean Duffy to be the country’s Secretary of Transportation, saying he’ll work “to reduce the red tape that slows critical infrastructure projects”. Duffy, a Republican congressman, also said that he’d work to “reduce the red tape that slows important infrastructure projects, ensuring funds are spent efficiently”. He’d served in the US Congress for 12 years.
The company doesn’t think that the decision to let drones fly in dangerous areas is political
DJI said that in 2024 it removed the built-in feature that interfered with the crash of the White House drone almost a decade ago, with warnings that the user could ignore. It further said that the ‘No Fly Zones’ were “missed opportunities, delayed operations, or unnecessary” and added that its No Fly Zones created “missed opportunities, delayed operations, or unnecessary”.
It is possible for MetaAI to translate a speech into dozens of languages
Researchers have used a semi-Supervised Learning technique to train their text-to-text translation model. The team of researchers collected around 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio before being pre- trained on the part of the model that is responsible for translation. They analysed whether the model over-represented one gender when translating gender-neutral phrases into gendered languages.
The Chinese app RedNote is flooding the American app TikTokkers
TikTok users in the US are flooding Chinese social media platform RedNote. As per reports, more than a fifth of RedNote’s total app downloads this month have come from the US, up from 2% in the same period in the previous year. “For so long, we couldn’t connect…now we finally can, and it feels so special,” a Chinese user said.
What to prepare for a TikTok ban in the US
Oracle, which provide cloud infrastructure to TikTok in the US, would likely also be required to stop hosting the app’s data, as per reports. “If anybody uses your service to access TikTok and you’re in violation…it’s $5,000 per person that does that,” Kate Ruane, director of the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said.
With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Go to Chinese App
Several TikTok users in the US have started using Xiaohongshu instead of TikTok after the US Supreme Court heard arguments on the app’s ban by January 19. A TikTok refugee going by the name of “Elle belle” said on the Xiaohongshu app that he was unable to read the rules. Some users said they would like to stick to a platform developed by a Chinese company.
The executive order was signed by Joe Biden
US President Joe Biden on Sunday announced new rules that will ban the sale of American-made artificial intelligence chips to Iran and North Korea. The rules will limit the sale of AI chips to companies operating data centres in the US, which is the world’s largest data centre market. They also set security standards for AI models that are built at federal sites.
It could be possible for TikTok to get a 270 day extension
TikTok will get harder to access in the US as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision to consider TikTok’s constitutionality, Kate Ruane, Director of the Free Expression Project, said. She added that even after the law takes effect, users won’t be banned from using the app if they have it on their phones. TikTok is owned by China’s ByteDance.
In a response to the Biden legislation, Nvidia flatters Trump
The US on Tuesday said that it will not allow AI systems in data centres to be exported to any country except the US. However, the rule does not ban exports of AI chips to other countries. “In the wrong hands, powerful AI systems have the potential to exacerbate significant national security risks,” the White House said.