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Spotify claims Apple wants 'tax' for in-app pricing tweak
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....
DARPA's latest toy is a 20-foot, 12-ton tank that drives itself
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....
City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout
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....
SK hynix breaks Q1 revenue records on back of AI boom
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....
Russia, Iran pose most aggressive threat to 2024 elections, say infoseccers
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....
Meta's value plummets as Zuckerberg admits AI needs more time and money
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....
Atos hopes for lifeline as refinancing saga set to drag on into May
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....
Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night
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....
Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison
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....
Throwflame launches fire-spitting robo-dog from Hell
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....
Microsoft and Amazon's AI ambitions spark regulatory rumble
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....
BMW calls for vendor openness in quest to mine its own processes
'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....
Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful
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....
Indian bank’s IT is so shabby it’s been banned from opening new accounts
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....
Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes
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....
IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat
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....
Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors
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....
Governments issue alerts after 'sophisticated' state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes
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....
With Run:ai acquisition, Nvidia aims to manage your AI kubes
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....
Apple releases OpenELM, a slightly more accurate LLM
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....
Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher
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....
Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking
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....
Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again'
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....
Lenovo and Micron first to implement LPCAMM2 in laptop
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....
Microsoft cannot keep its own security in order, so what hope for its add-ons customers?
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....
US Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs
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....
Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward – with receipts
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....
Management company settles for $18.4M after nuclear weapons plant staff fudged their timesheets
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....
Google cools on cookie phase-out while regulators chew on plans
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)....
US charges Iranians with cyber snooping on government, companies
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....
Oracle changes its tune with HQ move to Music City
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....
Tesla misses the mark on all fronts in quarter of chaos
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....
Euro cloud group blasts Broadcom over VMware licensing maneuvers
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....
European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits
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....
Law prof predicts generative AI will die at the hands of watchdogs
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....
Strong electric car sales expected for 2024, but charging grid needs work
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....
Rapidus US chief says AI chip crunch, supply chain paranoia make for an ideal growth climate
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....
Graph databases speaking the same language after ISO gives GQL the nod
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....
If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?
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....
Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app
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....
China's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers
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....
Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban
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....
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V
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)....
White House tweaks HIPAA to shield medical files of those seeking reproductive care
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....
Intel Foundry ticks another box in quest to fab mil-spec chips for US DoD
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....
Using its own sums, AMD claims it's helping save Earth with Epyc server chiplets
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....
Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists
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....
Banned Nvidia GPUs sneak into sanction-busting Chinese servers
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....
Miles of optical fiber crafted aboard ISS marks manufacturing first
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....
Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand
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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