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Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.
India’s APAAR consent form raises questions over children’s privacy, recorded refusals, parental consent, third-party data sharing, recruitment agencies, and whether withdrawal safeguards meet the DPDP Act. The post On closer reading: What India’s APAAR student ID consent form actually asks parents appeared first on MEDIANAMA.
The total value of the frozen assets exceeds Wingtech’s entire first-half revenue, with the company reporting 1.51 billion yuan in H1 2026 sales, down more than 90% year over year.
The Indian government warns Android users about malicious apps like Night Play, Reloop, Kyss, Vimo, Rivo, Nexo and Vixa, disguised as adult content and spread via Facebook and Instagram ads, that exploit Accessibility permissions to hijack phones and enable financial fraud.
Installing a large language model on your personal computer gives you a handy digital assistant that won’t compromise your data privacy.
At a meeting in Hanoi on Thursday, Communist Party General Secretary and President To Lam asked Qualcomm Chief Executive Cristiano Amon to increase its investment in areas including AI, semiconductors, robotics, 5G/6G, data centres and next-generation connectivity technologies, according to a government statement.
Back in March, Tecno announced its partnership with Italian luxury lifestyle brand Tonino Lamborghini. It has since launched the Pova Metal Tonino Lamborghini Edition and has now expanded the collection with the new Pova 8 Pro Tonino Lamborghini Limited Edition.
Alipay+’s proposed linkage with UPI for cross-border payments has reportedly been stalled over national security concerns and questions surrounding the…
Reversing the traditional dynamic, the Huawei MatePad Air (2026) was announced for the global market back in July and will only launch in China next week on September 7 (Monday). This will happen at the event for the tri-folding Huawei Mate XT 2.
Whatfix CEO Khadim Batti passes away: Vara Kumar, Batti's cofounder and a close friend, told Whatfix employees in an email that Batti had spoken with him at length on Monday night and that they had discussed their respective health situations. “He had been maintaining his health very well,” Kumar wrote.
AMD's upcoming "Zen 6" desktop processors are moving closer to release as the company begins Linux kernel support in the latest version 7.3. According to Phoronix, AMD has updated the Host System Management Port (HSMP) kernel module, adding protocol version 7, which is used by the Zen 6 Family 1Ah Model 80H processors.
The U.S. Navy successfully tested a sail-powered autonomous drone in live-fire exercises in the Pacific.
Indian handset maker Lava will make its UK debut with the launch of Agni 4N there. The brand hasn't revealed the Agni 4N's price, but it said the smartphone will go on sale in the UK through Amazon starting September 4.
NVIDIA late Thursday released the latest version of its GeForce Game Ready drivers. Version 616.64 adds day-zero (Game Ready) optimization for "NBA 2K27." Besides this little change, the company did not fix any new issues with this release, but identified a couple of new issues that will be fixed in a future release.
Earlier today at IFA 2026 in Berlin, Xiaomi showed off its upcoming foldable – Xiaomi 18 Fold, as the first flagship with its in-house XRING03 silicon. The Fold 18 is also going to feature Leica imaging for the camera tech.
The new platform combines development, database, storage, security and cloud infrastructure services to help developers build and deploy applications faster
A new local‑only password manager, notes app, and secure vault that hides your secrets in an ordinary-looking .PNG image file is now available.
Taiwanese prosecutors are investigating Unimicron, one of the world’s largest PCB and chip substrate makers and a key supplier to Nvidia, Intel, Google, and Amazon, over allegations that it shipped China-made PCBs back to Taiwan and relabeled them as Taiwanese products.
Gnani.ai has launched Artha, a sovereign AI stack combining its 30-billion-parameter Evon v3.3 model with the Plexus platform for developing AI agents. The post Gnani.ai launches Artha sovereign AI stack in India appeared first on MEDIANAMA.
SoftBank is seeking a $10 billion loan, as it looks for more funding to help refinance debt used for its investment in US tech giant OpenAI. The loan would add to SoftBank’s flurry of recent debt financing activities tied to its bet on OpenAI, including a potential bond sale of as much as $20 billion.
The discovery adds to the planet’s history of strange atmospheric phenomena that scientists don’t fully understand.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword closes out an excellent year for Capcom. We put the RE Engine to the test once again, benchmarking 31 different CPUs to see how they scale in the game.
What can we learn from a BGP hijacking that poisoned production software? Plenty.
Ready to move on from the traditional glass slab? Introduce a hinge into your life with these folding smartphones.
Fishing in Anime Expeditions is a fun mechanic, but if you catch them all, rewards await you. Before you go and grab a rod and start fishing, you must wonder what is on offer.
New fund to invest across computer infrastructure underpinning AI, including chips, memory, networking and storage, as well as complete systems such as data centres, robotics and home AI appliances
Xiaomi has announced the upcoming Indian market debut of the REDMI 17 5G, scheduled to launch on September 3rd after it was introduced for the global markets recently with slightly different specs.
Basketball has always given me a different kind of adrenaline, be it in real life, 2K games, or even in Roblox. I have played plenty of sports games over the years, from EA FC to WWE 2K, but there is something about watching a game slip away and then fighting your way back that keeps me returning to NBA 2K.
Jensen Huang wrote in a blog post Thursday that more than 18 million developers, researchers and creators use Hugging Face to share more than 3 million models, 500,000 data sets and 1 million applications. There's also more than 200,000 companies that use the platform, he said.
These investments aren't massive one-time expenses — data center operators are expected to upgrade their expensive GPUs and related infrastructure every four to six years, as new semiconductor technologies arrive on the market.