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by Matthew Connatser on (#6MBEM)
App maker accuses Cupertino of defying EU rules Spotify claims Apple rejected an update to the popular music streaming app that would have informed users about purchase methods outside of the Apple ecosystem....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6MBEN)
Crew entirely optional DARPA has been working on off-road autonomous vehicles for decades, and now it has a combat-scale unmanned tank to show....
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by Lindsay Clark on (#6MBB9)
Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place Birmingham City Council, Europe's biggest local authority, has no way of knowing if financial fraud has been committed after it failed to run security and audit features in a new Oracle Fusion ERP system....
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#6MBBA)
Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM tech The global AI infrastructure buying frenzy is still in full swing - so much so that it has pushed the world's second largest memory maker, SK hynix, into its second highest operating profit ever and an all-time high for Q1 revenues....
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by Connor Jones on (#6MBBB)
Google security crew reveal the four Ds' to be on the watch for It may come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that experts say, in revealing the most prevalent and likely tactics to meddle with elections this year, that state-sponsored cybercriminals pose the biggest threat....
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by Richard Speed on (#6MBBC)
Revenues up, but is the AI hype bubble is threatening to burst? Meta's shares tumbled after company boss Mark Zuckerberg said the quiet bit out loud: it will take a while before AI bets start paying back the huge financial investments it is making....
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by Dan Robinson on (#6MB8E)
Struggling French tech giant posts disappointing Q1 results Crisis-hit tech giant Atos is pushing back the deadline for its refinancing proposals after posting a slim operating profit of 48 million ($51 million) for calendar Q1....
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by Richard Speed on (#6MB8F)
What do we say to the God of Death? Not today Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has woken up again, having survived three lunar nights....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#6MB8G)
The software redemption Teaching prisoners how to design and program websites turns out to improve their sense of self-worth and provides them with digital literacy skills that help them stay out of prison....
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by Richard Currie on (#6MB61)
The Thermonator can be yours for just $9,420 Picture Boston Dynamics' nightmare fuel robot dog Spot. Now imagine it 1,000 percent more terrifying....
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by Connor Jones on (#6MB62)
Tech giants confident everything's in order UK regulators want to hear from "interested third parties" on whether Microsoft and Amazon's investments in AI startups is impeding competition....
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by Lindsay Clark on (#6MB4C)
'Software companies try to extend their reach and their usage, but this can't be by locking in users,' says process mining lead BMW's process mining leader has called for greater openness among enterprise application and software vendors to avoid data lock-in....
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by Bruce Davie on (#6MB2Y)
Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters Systems Approach Full disclosure: I have a history with AI, having flirted with it in the 1980s (remember expert systems?) and then having safely avoided the AI winter of the late 1980s by veering off into formal verification before finally landing on networking as my specialty in 1988....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6MB2Z)
After two years of warnings, and outages, regulators ran out of patience with Kotak Mahindra Bank India's central bank has banned Kotak Mahindra Bank from signing up new customers for accounts or credit cards through its online presence and app....
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#6MB1G)
Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents Samsung SDI, the Korean giant's battery biz, on Tuesday promised EV batteries that can charge to 80 percent capacity in a mere nine minutes, plus models that can perform at that level for 20 years....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6MAZ0)
Investors want to know what Big Blue is smoking after growth disappoints IBM has announced it will acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, and touted the deal as meaning its hybrid cloud platform will emerge with a comprehensive" set of products....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6MAXM)
And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacks The director general of Australia's lead intelligence agency and the commissioner of its Federal Police yesterday both called for social networks to offer more assistance to help their investigators work on cases involving terrorism, child exploitation, and racist nationalism....
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by Jessica Lyons on (#6MAXN)
Don't get too comfortable: 'Line Dancer' malware may be targeting other vendors, too A previously unknown and "sophisticated" nation-state group compromised Cisco firewalls as early as November 2023 for espionage purposes - and possibly attacked network devices made by other vendors including Microsoft, according to warnings from the networking giant and three Western governments....
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by Tobias Mann on (#6MAVG)
Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMs Nvidia on Wednesday announced the acquisition of AI-centric Kubernetes orchestration provider Run:ai in an effort to help bolster the efficiency of computing clusters built on GPU....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#6MAS8)
It's not the fastest machine learning model, but you can't have everything Apple, not normally known for its openness, has released a generative AI model called OpenELM which apparently outperforms a set of other language models trained on public data sets....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6MAS9)
It's the millions-of-robotaxis promise again - and all y'all buying it this time, too? Opinion Elon Musk has a strategy and you may have seen it before: When things aren't going well, he'll say something wild to take everyone's eyes off the trouble, and raise share prices with dreams....
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by Jessica Lyons on (#6MAPC)
Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done' Collaboration software used by federal government agencies - this includes apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, and Google - will be required to work together and be securely end-to-end encrypted, if legislation proposed by US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) passes....
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by Matthew Connatser on (#6MAPD)
And you thought the Bing begging was annoying Microsoft has made good on its promise, or threat, to put advertisements inside the Windows 11 Start menu with its latest update....
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by Matthew Connatser on (#6MAKG)
The SODIMM replacement finally arrives Lenovo's latest ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 laptop is set to be the first to use the new LPCAMM2 memory form factor, the successor to SODIMM sticks....
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by Richard Speed on (#6MAKH)
Secure-by-default... if your pockets are deep enough Microsoft has come under fire for charging for security add-ons despite the company's own patchy record when it comes to vulnerabilities and breaches....
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by Jude Karabus on (#6MAKJ)
Senior execs making $150K+ will still have to abide by them, but they fall away for everyone else The US Chamber of Commerce is saying it will sue the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for officially banning noncompete clauses in employment contracts across Amercia....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6MAGD)
What's that? Q1 was better than expected? Pump those shares Another Boeing whistleblower has come forward to report problems at his former employer, but that doesn't seem to have upset shareholders, who sent shares skyward on news of a quarter bearing fewer losses than expected....
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by Connor Jones on (#6MAGE)
The firm 'fessed up to staff misconduct and avoided criminal liability A company contracted to manage an Amarillo, Texas nuclear weapons facility has to pay US government $18.4 million in a settlement over allegations that its atomic technicians fudged their timesheets to collect more money from Uncle Sam....
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by Richard Speed on (#6MAGF)
Privacy Sandbox slips into 2025 after challenges from UK authorities Google's plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome is being postponed to 2025 amid wrangling with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)....
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by Connor Jones on (#6MAD6)
Their holiday options are now far more restricted The US has charged and sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their alleged roles in various attacks on US companies and government departments, all of whom are claimed to have worked for fake companies linked to Iran's military....
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by Lindsay Clark on (#6MAD7)
Nashville 'ticked all the boxes' for Big Red's employees, says founder Ellison Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison has confirmed that the tech giant plans to move its global headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee....
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by Paul Kunert on (#6MAD8)
Who cares that net profit slid 55%? Not Wall Street In a dynamic first quarter, Elon Musk's Tesla contended with a terrorist organization, survived an arson attempt, and fiercely competed with hybrid car makers, all against a backdrop of falling prices as competition for electric vehicle customers intensified....
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by Dan Robinson on (#6MAA5)
CISPE says concessions 'solve nothing' Updated Euro cloud trade body CISPE has hit back at concessions offered by Broadcom over VMware licensing, saying these do not address key issues that led it to lobby the European Commission into investigating....
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by Richard Speed on (#6MAA6)
Directive places requirements on gizmo vendors, but still needs formal approval The European Parliament has adopted the right-to-repair directive with 584 votes in favor and three against, making repairing goods more accessible and cost-effective....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#6MAA7)
Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape Video Generative AI is destined to drown in a tsunami of regulation, argues Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman....
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by Richard Speed on (#6MA7H)
International Energy Agency points out obvious: Infrastructure needs to meet demand The International Energy Agency (IEA) is reminding governments to match the continued rapid growth of electric car sales with infrastructure improvements....
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by Tobias Mann on (#6MA7J)
Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators Interview The foundry space is arguably the most complex and competitive it has been in decades as foundry upstarts in the US and Japan look to challenge heavyweights Samsung and TSMC for a piece of the action....
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by Lindsay Clark on (#6MA5T)
Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors GQL, the query language for graph databases, has been recognized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), offering users more portability of queries and skills between graph database systems....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#6MA5V)
One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all Exclusive At least 18 public-sector websites in the UK and US send visitor data in some form to various web advertising brokers - including an ad-tech biz in China involved in past privacy controversies, a security firm claims....
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#6MA4A)
You read that right - it's a bit like Pokemon Go, but for telephone poles Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) - which manages infrastructure including the Fukushima nuclear power plant - is reportedly involved in an IP dispute over an app that gamifies the crowdsourced identification of faulty power poles....
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#6MA2X)
China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines Giant Chinese telco China Mobile, which boasts over a billion customers, wants to purchase nearly 8,000 AI servers....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6MA2Y)
Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA! The US Senate has passed a bill that compels TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to offload the app to a US-approved buyer or face a ban. President Biden has indicated he will sign it into law....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6MA1B)
Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics The United States Department of Commerce is reportedly considering lawmakers' calls to make it harder for China to use the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA)....
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by Jessica Lyons on (#6M9ZR)
In theory, this should make it harder for states to compel data-sharing to enforce anti-abortion laws A revision to America's healthcare privacy rules aims to better protect abortion providers and patients seeking the procedure - and other types of reproductive care, such as in vitro fertilization and contraception - as some US states ban procedures and attempt prosecutions....
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by Tobias Mann on (#6M9Y7)
Gelsinger and gang certified to court wider array of defense contractors Intel's Foundry division is one step closer to manufacturing chips for military applications using its forthcoming 18A process node....
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by Tobias Mann on (#6M9W6)
Smaller dies, less wafer loss equals lower emissions, exec claims Comment AMD says its decision to ditch monolithic datacenter chips seven years ago in favor of a chiplet architecture has helped cut global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by tens of thousands of metric tons a year....
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by Matthew Connatser on (#6M9S7)
Strange tales from San Francisco A self-driving Waymo taxi in San Francisco was filmed passing unicyclists and scooters - which would have been mundane if it weren't for the fact that the autonomous vehicle drove down the wrong side of the street to do so....
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by Matthew Connatser on (#6M9S8)
Graphics giant and partners say they're clean - it's all technically legit More banned Nvidia GPUs are making their way into Chinese universities, local governments, and private companies....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6M9PE)
ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics Fiber optics of the future may be manufactured in space if the results of a recent ISS experiment prove its feasibility....
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by Dan Robinson on (#6M9PF)
Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analysts Seagate has joined Western Digital in increasing the prices of hard drives, with rising demand due to the huge data requirements of AI taking the blame. AI is also behind a rapid growth in orders for Enterprise solid state drives (SSDs)....
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