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Man who promised the Unicorn Kingdom must now face judgement from the real thing Drenched in British spring rain, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called an election yesterday, surprising colleagues and commentators. And if opinion polls are anything to go by he will lose and leave behind a tech legacy which is patchy at best....

Alternatively, true AGI has been reached, and the machines decided to delete themselves Updated Parts of Microsoft's Bing are still offline in Europe after it fell over earlier this morning, taking down Copilot and anything else that depends on the search service's API....

Remember Intel's 'Larrabee' many-core Pentium-based GPU? GCC doesn't After dropping Itanium support, GCC 15 is set to kill off more ancient platforms, with the Xeon Phi facing the firing squad alongside the penultimate version of Solaris....

More than four years after procurement began, authority has no go-live date East Sussex County Council is conducting "a further health check of the system and programme" after it failed to go live with Oracle Fusion, its replacement for SAP R/3....

In less than 13 minutes, we'll get you up to speed on USP Interview Technical report 69, or TR-069, which defines how people's broadband routers and other customer-premises equipment can be remotely provisioned and managed by ISPs automatically, is turning 20 years old....

Massive discount applied to save cop shop's helicopter budget Following a data leak that brought "tangible fear of threat to life", the UK's data protection watchdog says it intends to fine the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) 750,000 ($955,798)....

Models with flaws can be harmless ... yet dangerous. So why are reports of problems being roundly ignored? Feature Imagine a brand new and nearly completely untested technology, capable of crashing at any moment under the slightest provocation without explanation - or even the ability to diagnose the problem. No self-respecting IT department would have anything to do with it, keeping it isolated from any core systems....

SpaceX is smart on this, Cupertino and GL.iNet not so much In-depth Academics have suggested that Apple's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) can be abused to create a global privacy nightmare....

You shouldn't - Indian infosec researchers warn you'll get random junk instead Indian infosec firm CloudSEK warned on Wednesday that scammers are selling counterfeit code advertised as the NSO Group's notorious Pegasus spyware....

Pact made with WSJ, New York Post, Sunday Times, Australian publisher as lawsuit bullets ping around the industry OpenAI and News Corp on Wednesday announced a partnership that will bring the publisher's output to the super-lab's models, marking yet another in a series of data content deals for the industry....

What next? Kim-Jong-AI? Don't laugh - Nvidia has pondered rebuilding a digital Napoleon China's Cyberspace Research Institute has revealed it's created a large language model and conversational AI based on the philosophies of President Xi Jinping....

Unfading Sea Haze adept at staying under the radar Bitdefender says it has tracked down and exposed an online gang that has been operating since 2018 nearly without a trace - and likely working for Chinese interests....

Vague ML definitions subject to change - yeah, great The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted Wednesday to advance a law bill expanding the White House's authority to police exports of AI systems - including models said to pose a national security threat to the United States....

Subscribers in US, Europe, SEA can take silicon out for a spin for free Microsoft is bringing its custom-designed Arm-based Cobalt 100 processors closer to the public as it is now demoing the chips in an Azure virtual machine (VM) preview....

How about just flag up the adverts not using machine learning The Federal Communications Commission is considering a proposal that would require US political ads to disclose their usage of AI technology....

Why should we get its paperwork? More than 100 medical industry groups have asked the Feds to make UnitedHealth Group, not them, go through the rigmarole of notifying everyone about the Change Healthcare ransomware infection....

Computershare CTO says he got a bill 15 times his previous quote Next Global stock-market share registry operator Computershare looks like it has just decided to bail from VMware rather than suffer Broadcom's latest licensing regime and price hikes....

But if they can't, AMD is well positioned to mop up Analysis Nvidia had quite the showing at the International Supercomputing show in Hamburg last week. Its GH200 claimed a spot among the 10 most powerful publicly known supercomputers, while the CPU-GPU frankenchips dominated the Green500 for the efficiency prize....

Pharmacy says it's 'unwilling and unable to pay ransom' Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs has confirmed that ransomware thugs stole some of its corporate files containing employee information and says it is "unwilling and unable to pay ransom to these cybercriminals."...

Intercontinental Exchange's Q1 revenue exceeded $1B - that'll sure teach 'em The New York Stock Exchange's parent company has just been hit with a $10 million fine for failing to properly inform the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of a 2021 cyber intrusion....

Recently confirming first use of energy weapons in the field, military now wants bigger, better systems It hasn't been using them for long, but the US Army is apparently pleased enough with its early directed energy (i.e. laser) weapons systems that it's investing another $95.4 million in improved versions....

$4.5M slushed through accounts from state healthcare and lonely people Georgia resident Malachi Mullings received a decade-long sentence for laundering money scored in scams against healthcare providers, private companies, and individuals to the tune of $4.5 million....

Semiconductor foundry industry thanks its lucky stars amid slow general recovery Demand for AI-related tech is at a high point amid a relatively slow recovery for the semiconductor foundry industry, according to Counterpoint Research, which expects the situation to last for the rest of this year....

'Clarification' weighs in on material vs voluntary disclosures The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants to clarify guidelines for public companies regarding the disclosure of ransomware and other cybersecurity incidents....

Starliner or Padstayer? Boeing's Starliner, aka the Calamity Capsule, has suffered another setback after a hoped-for May 25 launch date has been dropped as engineers work to deal with a helium leak in the spacecraft's propulsion system....

You're thrice as likely to be hit by a battery-powered vehicle The road to net zero might be paved with good intentions, but it's also apparently littered with injured pedestrians....

Plans robo-tractors to help as folks flee the farm but the planet stays hungry Next Agricultural equipment maker John Deere has decided virtual machines are legacy tech....

$40 million to be raised for engineering and sorting out the supply chain The Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Raspberry Pi is now set for June 2024, and $40 million is expected to be raised....

'Sid' is looking a little sickly of late, but it will pass The intrepid users of Debian's "testing" branch just discovered that a bunch of their password manager's features disappeared... but their package manager is going to get new ones....

It's only a preview, and maybe it should stay there ... forever Microsoft's Windows Recall feature is attracting controversy before even venturing out of preview....

Energy billionaire Daniel Ketinsky reportedly looking at ways to sway creditors Ailing IT giant Atos has delayed approval of its financial statements for 2023 until the end of this year as it continues efforts to restructure, which have seen renewed interest from billionaire suitor Daniel Ketinsky....

Underground tunnel testing now available for autonomous vehicles Self-driving vehicles could be on British roads by 2026, following the Automated Vehicles Act becoming law this week....

Rivals ready to swoop in but drop in overall attacks illustrates LockBit's influence The takedown of LockBit in February is starting to bear fruit for rival gangs with Play overtaking it after an eight-month period of LockBit topping the attack charts....

Zero bucks to start but then the meter runs on everything - for years IBM has decided the time is right to bring its Power-powered cloud on-prem....

Yay, meeting room technology Logitech has unveiled a follow-up to 2017's MeetUp camera with the creatively named MeetUp 2, alongside a room booking solution....

Windows? We're the Copilot company now Comment Microsoft's Build 2024 conference is getting under way in Seattle. As the Copilot company makes a multitude of AI announcements, one question seems pertinent: Is Build and Microsoft's commitment to developers starting to wither?...

On the bright side, someone made up to $30,000+ for finding it GitHub has patched its Enterprise Server software to fix a security flaw that scored a 10 out of 10 CVSS severity score....

Seoul Summit follows up Bletchley Declaration with more non-binding and vague promises Sixteen global AI leaders - including Google, Microsoft, IBM, and OpenAI - have made fresh but non-binding pledges to deactivate their own tech if it shows signs it is driving a dystopian outcome....

ByteDance added a cheap service and the market followed it down China's top AI players have made enormous cuts to the price of their services....

Hopping satellites every 15 seconds will do that to a protocol SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service "represents an unusually hostile link environment" to the TCP protocol, according to Geoff Huston, chief scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Center....

Boffins, why not simply invent an algorithm that autonomously fixes flaws, thereby ending ransomware forever The US government's Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has pledged more than $50 million to fund the development of technology that aims to automate the process of securing hospital IT environments....

Be careful not to over-inflate, you may burst your bubble Scale AI's valuation soared to nearly $14 billion on Tuesday after the startup revealed it has raked in a billion dollars in venture capital in a late-stage funding round led by VC house Accel with support from industry titans Nvidia, Amazon, and Meta to name a few....

And real-time video translation for things like this: Apestas, Redmond! Build Edge for Business, Microsoft's year-old entry in the enterprise browser race, has received a handful of security and productivity upgrades that were announced on Tuesday at the technology giant's Build developer conference....

Predicts worse to come for customers as he builds AR for slot machines around Nutanix Next Gregg Lowe is feeling thoroughly chuffed about his technology buying decisions....

Redmond is ready to help folks build AI 'copilots' Build At Microsoft's Build developer conference on Tuesday, CEO Satya Nadella announced that Redmond's Azure AI Studio is moving to general availability....

Server operators may need to pay up front, even for electricity they don't need yet The Ohio branch of American Electric Power (AEP) wants to slap new tariffs on the increasing number of power-hungry datacenters in the Buckeye State....

Not content with stealing share from Intel at the high-end, the House of Zen is going low AMD unveiled a line of tiny Epyc processors designed to compete with Intel's entry-level E-2400 Xeons....

Nyah, nyah: You can't sue for damages if we just meet your demands Facing an antitrust jury trial over claims it monopolizes online advertising, Google has chosen to do the most logical thing it can think of to avoid the case being heard by a jury: It's cut a check to the US Justice Department to get prosecutors to strike their damages claim....

Guess we all have imaginary monsters to fear Zoom has rolled out what it claims is post-quantum end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for video conferencing, saying it will make it available for Phone and Rooms "soon."...

Fremont: Come for the toxic fumes and discrimination, stay for marshmallows? A "two-alarm commercial fire" broke out yesterday at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California....