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Isn't that how Skynet took over? Generative AI models might be trained in massive clusters of GPUs, but Cloudflare argues the obvious place to run them isn't just at the edge but in the network itself....

The Kubernetes circus hits Shanghai and ponders how to connect engineers Kubecon The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has returned to Shanghai for the city's first Kubecon since the pandemic....

Some in globe pay just $0.02 per GB, others rinsed for $43.75 The cost of mobile data varies wildly around the world, ranging from an average $0.02 per gigabyte in Israel, to a whopping $43.75 in Zimbabwe, with the UK ranked 58th in affordability and the US coming close to the bottom of the table at 219th....

Render unto Apple what is Apple's The Vivaldi browser is finally making its way to iOS devices, although Apple's WebKit continues to lurk behind the scenes....

The URLs needed to share chat histories have been indexed. Of course Google's Bard chatbot is currently being re-educated to better understand privacy....

Reason for the ban still a mystery - but most have their guesses Memory maker Micron Technology's revenue nearly feel by almost half year-on-year, partly thanks to the effect of China's unpexplained bans on some of its products....

No longer super-cheap, but boasts better graphics and swifter storage The Raspberry Pi 5 arrives in October with both a leap in performance and an incremental price rise. But will you be able to get your hands on one?...

Made-In-China network's attempt to merge sales and socials stalled in the market all web giants covet Indonesia, the world's fourth-most-populous country, has decided to ban social commerce - the practice of embedding e-commerce facilities in social media platforms....

He's also worried about alliances that freeze out Chinese tech Chinese minister for national security Chen Yixin has penned an article rating the digital risks his country faces and rated network security incidents as the most realistic source of harm to the Chinternet - both in terms of attacks and the dissemination of fake news....

Rubio spent 371 days on the ISS, the longest any American has been aloft NASA astronaut Dr. Frank Rubio has returned home after a 371-day stint aboard the International Space Station, setting a new record for the longest time an American has stayed in space....

If the chatbot doesn't know what you need, it'll 'Bing It!' for paying customers ChatGPT can now scan the internet and provide users with up-to-date responses to their queries, OpenAI revealed Wednesday....

Factories and offices are going nowhere, fast Some of Volkswagen's operations have screeched to a halt after some sort of cyber incident, according to German media reports....

The pen is (slightly) mightier than the algorithm The Writers Guild of America has ended its 148-day strike after reaching an agreement with Hollywood's TV and film studios to increase pay and regulate the use of generative AI in ways that mean writers are paid regular rates even if they work on machine-generated material....

BlackTech crew looking to steal sensitive data traffic Chinese government spies may be hiding in your Cisco routers and using that access to steal intellectual property and other sensitive data, according to officials in the US and Japan....

Redmond says the deal is still on The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday revived its attempt to block Microsoft's planned $69 billion acquisition of game gurus at Activision Blizzard....

347.7 meters in a day - humans could probably do better NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has set a speed record by traversing a massive boulder field in a third the time it would have taken its predecessor Curiosity....

Big two corporate-backed free distros are nearly ready for their close-ups Both Fedora Workstation 39 and Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 are now in beta, preparing for release next month. We looked at their official GNOME-based flavors to see what to expect....

We could do most of what we need to prevent 1.5C warming now; reversing it will be nigh impossible The technology the world needs to reach net zero carbon emissions and limit global warming to 1.5C is increasingly available, but we're still not necessarily on track to meet our 2050 climate change goals, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports....

Letter to City Council supports measures to ban biometric tech from public spaces "New Yorkers should not be forced to accept biometric surveillance as part of simple activities like buying groceries or taking their kids to a baseball game," more than 30 civil and digital rights organizations said yesterday in a letter backing new privacy laws in the city....

Biz signed 20-year term in 2021 before COVID-19 caused the WFH revolution followed by redundancies Meta is paying 149 million ($181 million) to release itself earlier than planned from a lease on an eight-story office block in London signed two years ago, which still lies vacant....

Why there is not a lot more of it is yet to be explained though In sci-fi, antimatter is the opposite of all the matter around us. Does that mean it should fall up? Not at all, scientists at Europe's largest sub-atomic physics lab have proved for the first time....

The result? Install Fee Tycoon It's generally not accepted as good form to kick someone while they're down, but we can always make an exception where predatory business practices are concerned, especially in the $334 billion video game industry....

Chip giant says it's still in the 'planning and design phase' Intel is facing a shortage of skilled staff for its planned chip factory in Germany, according to reports, highlighting that rebuilding the semiconductor industry in Europe and elsewhere may not be straightforward....

Meanwhile Google pushes podcast listeners toward YouTube Music Spotify has revealed it will use AI to clone the voices of prominent podcasters and translate their output into other languages....

Valve's work on Steam OS 3 for the Steam Deck help everyone, corporate users included Open Source Summit Steam OS is the Arch-based distro for a handheld Linux games console, and Valve is aggressively pushing Linux's usability and Windows interoperability for the device....

Tell it what you want to do, and it spits out the relevant code MongoDB has built an AI-powered SQL converter designed to help developers move from relational databases to its document-oriented NoSQL system....

Winning spacecraft will dock with the station at least a year before go time NASA has confirmed it will ask American companies to duke it out for the opportunity to deorbit the International Space Station - quietly releasing a request for proposals last week....

Mozilla gave it the boot, but the Linux Foundation Europe gave it the kiss of life instead Open Source Summit A pleasant surprise from Open Source Summit is that Servo, the Rusty rendering engine that Mozilla was working on - until COVID, that is - is showing green shoots of renewed vigor....

Machine learning model touted as ideal for finding LGMs on Mars, and beyond Computer scientists have trained a machine learning model to predict whether materials contains biosignatures in the hopes that it can be used to detect life in Martian rocks....

Three words: Cheap, reliable, power Analysis A job ad from Microsoft shows it's looking to harness the power of the atom to fuel its growing datacenter footprint, but it'd hardly be the first....

Microsoft adds a PC setup option and tools just for coders in Win 11 23H2, which debuted Tuesday Microsoft has started to deliver Windows 11 23H2, aka the "Moment 4" update, bringing a host of changes - including an option to set up the OS in a configuration intended to delight software developers....

Tightens regulations after downfall of the brazen JPEX exchange Hong Kong's security regulator said on Monday that it will begin publishing a list of virtual asset trading platforms applying for an operating license, as part of the fallout from the attack on crypto platform JDEX....

Meanwhile its parent begins to break up, with float of logistics arm Alibaba Cloud has advanced its AI play, introducing a handful of cloud services - some of which it will offer outside China....

The 'Gram Fold' looks limited to LG's home of Korea LG has become the latest hardware maker to try taking foldable screens beyond the smartphone space and into a laptop computer. But don't get too excited, folding gadget fans, this one looks like it won't be widely sold....

12 years behind bars, and ordered to forfeit $65m in illicit proceeds The co-founder of AirBit Club, a $100 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, will spend a dozen years behind bars for orchestrating the international fraud and money-laundering scheme....

Discriminatory handling of data and paid internet fast lanes could again be disallowed Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said on Tuesday that she intends to seek a vote to restore US net neutrality rules that were nixed by the Trump administration....

ChatGPT makers allegedly in talks with investors to let employees sell out OpenAI is reportedly in talks with investors to sell them shares held by the company's employees in a transaction that could boost its valuation up to $90 billion....

CIA, FBI and friends using AI to uncover threats? What could possibly go wrong? US spies are reportedly developing their own AI chatbot in a move to top China's prowess....

Search giant's latest subsea cable will feed your YouTube addiction Updated Google is building a new subsea cable, due to come online in 2026, that will connect South Carolina to Portugal with a layover in Bermuda....

In measure of fakery, Musk's social media biz has highest noise-to-signal ratio European Commission veep Vera Jourova said in a speech on Tuesday that Elon Musk's social media service X, formerly known as Twitter, has the highest ratio of disinformation among large social media platforms....

Khan's been waiting for years to file this case - she better hope her aim is good The FTC - and 17 state attorneys general - have come out swinging at Amazon with a lawsuit accusing the ecommerce giant of being a monopolist....

iGiant says Rivos poached talent and SoC designs in '22 A chip startup and several of its employees are being sued by Apple for theft of trade secrets and breach of contract and filed a countersuit....

More precise timing tests find many implementations vulnerable An engineer has identified longstanding undetected flaws in a 25-year-old method for encrypting data using RSA public-key cryptography....

Check out the raw data yourself... if you dare Cloud-based storage and backup provider Backblaze has published the latest report on usage data gathered from its solid state drives (SSDs), asking if they show the same failure pattern as hard drives....

Oh MI word: In the AI race, any accelerator beats none at all Machine learning startup Lamini revealed its large language model (LLM) refining platform was running "exclusively" on The House of Zen's silicon....

Progress Software vulnerability ID'd in enormous burglary at Ontario's BORN Canada's Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) fears a MOVEit breach allowed cybercriminals to copy 3.4 million people's childcare health records dating back more than a decade....

Smaller footprint and detachable Samsung confirmed today that its latest memory product will use the format of the recent JEDEC-ascribed standard, the Compression Attached Memory Module (CAMM) - making it the first time the memory format is being mass-produced outside of its designer, Dell Technologies....

Despite the OS's success, maintainers are short-staffed and under-appreciated Open Source Summit This year's Kernel Report at the Open Source Summit in Bilbao revealed the long-term support releases of the Linux kernel will soon not be that long at all....

Vows it won't 'proactively' shift folks who only use a landline or have no mobile signal BT has revealed details on its UK-wide rollout schedule as it switches over from analog phone lines to a digital voice service to hit the deadline of retiring the analog service by the end of 2025....

Cold War 2 is heating up As actor Bob Hoskins once said, it's good to talk, and nowhere is that old adage more pertinent than in defusing situations that could lead to all-out war....