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Better or worse than a surprise U2 album? Apple's on-device AI model, dubbed Apple Intelligence, will require 4 GB of device storage space, and more at a later date. That's about the size of an HD movie, for now....

Mountain View versus Redmond: Fight over cloud software licensing policies gets formal Google Cloud Platform has filed a complaint with the European Commission alleging Microsoft software licensing policies are anti-competitive, including claims customers are being charged four times more to run Windows Server in non-Azure clouds....

Officers put in danger when republican dissidents grabbed hold of their names and details Victims have yet to receive any compensation after a document was mistakenly published in 2023 containing data belonging to members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), however, fresh reports say damages in the case could reach up to 240 million ($320.9 million)....

Think tank warns of sovereignty risks from subsea cable consolidation The dominance of US-based hyperscalers like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon in subsea cables has reshaped the industry and put critical infrastructure at risk, an Australian think tank claims....

After Telegram CEO was charged in France, Element bosses mull the challenges Interview Not upsetting law enforcement with end to end encryption and finding a sustainable way to fund open source development are challenges facing messaging giants and minnows alike....

Post Office scandal? What scandal? Fujitsu has won a place on a UK tech framework worth up to 600 million ($802 million) despite promising not to bid for public sector contracts while its role in the Post Office Horizon scandal faces scrutiny. The company says bidding for the deal took place before it made that commitment to the UK government....

Buying computers without the tech to get harder as chipmakers compete for cash, say analysts AI PCs are forecast to account for 43 percent of PCs by 2025, says tech market sales number cruncher and consultancy Gartner, and by 2026, an AI device may be the virtually the only laptop a big business can choose....

Prithvi, Prithvi, Prithvi good Researchers at IBM and NASA this week released an open source AI climate model designed to accurately predict weather patterns while consuming fewer compute resources compared to traditional physics-based simulations....

Broadcom's software bundles under scrutiny after perhaps irking Fujitsu Japan's Fair Trade Commission, the nation's anti-monopoly agency, has reportedly commenced an investigation into VMware's software licensing practices....

Wants lunar sample return within three years, Venus launch in 2028, orbiting hab in 2035, boots on Luna five years later India's government last week signed off on three big space missions: a Moon lander, a space station module, and a Venus orbiter....

Turn on home aircon and maybe peer inside the fridge or oven - all from behind the wheel Samsung and fellow South Korean giants Kia and Hyundai have struck up an IoT alliance that will see cars drive home appliances, and smartphones control some operations inside cars....

Service due to roll out later this month, despite fears AI will crash the market AI has driven the stock market into a hype-fueled frenzy, and an Israeli startup has even convinced regulators to let its chatbot hallucinate an investment portfolio on your behalf....

Caroline Ellison thanked for helping take down FTX supremo, ordered to surrender her own billions The former CEO of Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison, has been sentenced to two years in a minimum-security prison after pleading guilty to helping her former boyfriend Sam Bankman-Fried siphon billions out of the FTX exchange....

Taiwan laughs it off - and so does Beijing, which says political slurs hit sites nobody reads anyway Taiwan has dismissed Chinese allegations that its military sponsored a recent wave of anti-Beijing cyber attacks....

Argues worse could happen if it loses kernel access CrowdStrike is "deeply sorry" for the "perfect storm of issues" that saw its faulty software update crash millions of Windows machines, leading to the grounding of thousands of planes, passengers stranded at airports, the cancellation of surgeries, and disruption to emergency services hotlines among many more inconveniences....

Cease'n'desist letter claims top boss demanded tens of millions for trademark license Updated WordPress hosting service WP Engine on Monday sent a cease and desist letter to WordPress maker Automattic, to force the latter's CEO Matthew Mullenweg to stop making allegedly false and misleading claims about WP Engine following a purported trademark license demand....

Still business as usual, we're told Virginia-based public sector IT services giant Carahsoft was raided Tuesday by US government agents....

Four Chocolate Factory trackers cracked the Top 25 in all regions Google, once again, is the "undisputed leader" when it comes to monitoring people's behavior on the internet, according to Kaspersky's annual web tracking report....

Severe incidents may be down, but Putin had to throw one in for good measure Russia's use of malware to support its military efforts in Ukraine is showing no signs of waning while its tactics continually evolve to bypass protections....

If they don't crash first, say government auditors Updated The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) air traffic control (ATC) systems are perilously out of date, but don't expect replacements anytime soon, says the US Government Accountability Office (GAO)....

Poorly received by investors, the moves comes in a difficult year Cloud-based data warehousing and analytics biz Snowflake has issued $2 billion in bonds with the aim to buy back shares and potentially launch an acquisition strategy....

Thousands of devices remain vulnerable, US most exposed to the threat Tens of thousands of fuel storage tanks in critical infrastructure facilities remain vulnerable to zero-day attacks due to buggy Automatic Tank Gauge systems from multiple vendors, say infosec researchers....

And they didn't even need a bunch of skimpy E-cores to do it Over the past few years, we've grown accustomed to Xeon processors that, generation after generation, come up short of the competition on some combination of core count, clock speeds, memory bandwidth, or PCIe connectivity....

'High time this happened' says Musk Elon Musk has confirmed a change to X that will allow blocked users to view public posts....

Minnow of among government funded whales to double production capacity US-based Polar Semiconductor - the maker of analog and power chip devices and sensors - has bagged $123 million of CHIPS and Science Act funding to nearly double production capacity in the US....

So say our sources, who warn job cuts, outsourcing risk depriving biz of seasoned technical talent IBM's plan to replace thousands of roles with AI presently looks more like outsourcing jobs to India, at the expense of organizational competency....

Mandiant publishes cheat sheet for weeding out fraudulent IT staff Against a backdrop of rising exposure to North Korean agents seeking (mainly) US IT roles, organizations now have a cheat sheet to help spot potential operatives....

Outsourcing firm has been building network for over a decade now - how's that going? The poster child of UK outsourcing, Capita, has won a two-year extension to its license to manage the delivery of the UK's smart meter secure communications platform, a system dogged by delays....

The little computer-that-could benefits as supply chain eases Raspberry Pi has reported a jump in revenue and profit for the first half of 2024, sending the company's shares soaring despite marginally lower volumes than expected....

Lab-based proof-of-concept shows how radiation creates explosive plumes to deflect menacing space rocks US scientists have demonstrated that potentially dangerous asteroids destined for Earth could be deflected from their trajectory using X-rays....

When robots.txt just ain't cutting the mustard Cloudflare on Monday expanded its defense against the dark arts of AI web scrapers by providing customers with a bit more visibility into, and control over, unwelcome content raids....

And it's here to carry your not-very-heavy stuff Researchers from South Korea suggest their Palletrone flying platform may someday be useful for light hauling scenarios....

But work on big ticket items needed to make the combo a contender is yet to commence The effort to bring the Xen hypervisor to the RISC-V instruction set architecture has advanced - a little - but big jobs that would make both projects a contender for more workloads are still on developers' to-do lists....

It only adds up to being as big as Nvidia today, in 2050 The Vietnamese government claims to have found a magical mathematical formula that will elevate its semiconductor industry to an annual turnover of $100 billion by 2050....

Back story to replacement for banned security app isn't enormously reassuring Some US-based users of Kaspersky antivirus products have found their software replaced by product from by a low-profile entity named "UltraAV" - a change they didn't ask for, and which has delivered them untested and largely unknown software from a source with a limited track record....

Maybe a spell in a French cell changed Durov's mind In a volte-face, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced that the made-in-Russia messaging platform will become a lot less cozy for criminals....

Still no R' word, but smells like ransomware from here A "cybersecurity issue" has shut down MoneyGram's systems and payment services since Friday, and the fintech leader has yet to update customers as to when it expects to have its global money transfer services back up and running....

11M devices exposed to trojan, Kaspersky says The Necro trojan is once again making a move against Android users, with up to eleven million individuals thought to be exposed to infected apps....

Exploiting workers, undermining public services, exacerbating climate crisis, ITUC says Amazon, Meta, and Tesla have earned the rather dubious honor of being named some of the worst corporate underminers of democracy by the world's largest trade union federation....

More like ServiceNo, or maybe ServiceNotforawhile Some customers of enterprise cloud vendor ServiceNow have been up in arms after a mistake with root certification left many stymied on a Monday morning....

No room for your spy mobiles on our streets The US Commerce Department has decided not to wait for the inevitable, and today announced plans that would ban connected vehicle technology - and vehicles using it - from Chinese and Russian sources....

There's no shortage of sand, but chip plants are thirsty for something even more precious: water Despite finding itself at the center of the United States' trade war with China, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is quickly establishing itself as a hotbed for AI development and its aspirations could soon extend to semiconductor manufacturing....

Land purchased to save it from Trump's border wall 'completely f*cked' by 'gravel, tractors, and space garbage' Elon Musk is facing down the barrel of another multimillion-dollar suit, this time from the makers of irreverent party game, Cards Against Humanity (CAH)....

Potential $5B cash injection from Apollo as Qualcomm sniffs around Comment Apollo Global Management has reportedly proposed a $5 billion investment in Intel. Rumors are swirling about the chip giant exploring a potential deal with the US-based asset management heavyweight, but nothing is locked in yet....

34,000 engineers pledged to the cause, but no word on exec pay Microsoft took a victory lap today, touting the 34,000 full-time engineers it has dedicated to its Secure Future Initiative (SFI) since it launched almost a year ago and making public its first progress report on efforts to improve security in its products and services....

Just like robotaxis, actual full self-driving, etc etc in just a few years We regret to inform you that Elon Musk has been using his social media orifice, X, to make some impressively outlandish claims once again. This time, the billionaire stated that SpaceX plans to launch a bunch of uncrewed Starships to Mars "in two years."...

There are other ways to keep things patched, but this one will sting for some Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away, as administrators using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) will soon find out....

A low bar, for sure, but a move in the right direction Apple's iPhone 16 has arrived, and the teardown crew at iFixit has wasted no time in pulling apart the latest device and found its repairability... rather good, relatively speaking....

That 'third party' person sure is responsible for a lot of IT blunders, eh? A major IT hardware manufacturer is correcting a recent security update after customers complained of a password character limit being introduced when there previously wasn't one....

Kubernetes whizz says devs can redefine their roles and capitalize on coding ML rewards Interview Software industry veteran and developer advocate Kelsey Hightower, well known for his contributions to the Kubernetes community, has an interesting take on generative AI: he won't be paying too much attention to it for now, except insofar as how it will be instrumental in changing what it means to be a software engineer....