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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....

Includes a Raspberry Pi version, which works well on the Pi 5 The latest update to MX Linux is out, and has some small but handy improvements to make it easier to get online and install....

Crashes galore, plus especially crafty crims could use it for much worse Infosec researchers are alerting the industry to a critical vulnerability in Fluent Bit - a logging component used by a swathe of blue chip companies and all three major cloud providers....

Custom silicon mounting up, says report from semiconductor researcher TechInsights Google announced a long-rumored datacenter CPU last month, but the Chocolate Factory may already be the third-largest designer of datacenter processors, according to research....

Bloc also recommends kicking Elon's brother and Rupert Murdoch's son off the board New York City's Comptroller and seven financial firms are recommending that Tesla shareholders give a thumbs-down to the electric car maker's ~$50 billion pay package for CEO Elon Musk....

And now add Copilot connectors and extensions to that Build At Microsoft, "it's Copilots all the way down for us."...

'High-risk' AIs will have hoops to jump through if they want to keep doing business in Europe The EU Council has given final approval to the bloc's landmark AI Act, setting the stage for enactment of a benchmark first-of-its-kind AI law across Europe....

Analyst warns of another unfortunate side effect of AI Industry preference for high bandwidth memory (HBM) has the potential to cause a DRAM supply shortage unless more manufacturing lines are built quickly, TrendForce is warning....

Shockingly, astronauts can curse when in high-stress situations It has been 55 years since Apollo 10 slipped into lunar orbit. The mission? To rehearse nearly every part of Apollo 11's landing except the part where it would actually land....

From SPAC and back as 68% say yes MariaDB shareholders have backed a private equity takeover offer for the troubled database vendor....

If I can't have you, then no one will! Chipmaking equipment supplier ASML reportedly has the means to remotely disable its advanced machinery in the hands of TSMC, should China invade Taiwan....

Bad news? The Apple Pencil Pro is *not* The Apple iPad Pro 13 has a secret lurking within its sleek lines. A battery that is not nightmarishly hard to replace. Relatively....

Brings its storage stack to AWS's EKS but still has time to improve its hypervisor NEXT Nutanix used its annual NEXT conference to reveal it has started thinking outside the VM by making its storage stack available as a native service on Amazon Web Services' Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)....

Fewer rivals on the scene as big-gang success soars The number of new ransomware strains in circulation has more than halved over the past 12 months, suggesting there is little need for innovation given the success of the existing tools used by top gangs....

Or so says CIQ, which coincidentally has issues obtaining RHEL's kernel sources Comment A new hire at Rocky Linux creator CIQ is rocking the LTS-Linux-distro boat - by shining a spotlight on the elephant in the room (or one of the herd)....

Telco told they must protect vulnerable in race to turn off Public Switched Telephone Network BT has extended the deadline for migrating customers off the copper-based Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to digital landlines to give more time to vulnerable people, including telecare users, to move....

Users given less than three months to move to the new platform for some services, analyst points out As Microsoft Build in Seattle kicks off today, one analyst has pointed out that the Redmond software giant is giving users scant time to get off its popular BI system and re-implement their solutions....

AI might take your job, but you'll be toasty warm while you starve Google plans to invest 1 billion to expand its datacenter campus in Finland - a move that will both bolster its AI compute capacity and reclaim the thermal energy generated by power hungry accelerators to heat local homes....

Sam Altman liked the sound of a fictional ScarBot, which makes this all a bit creepy Audio Movie megastar Scarlett Johansson has complained that one of the voices OpenAI's ChatGPT uses in voice interactions sounds eerily like her own - despite having rebuffed an approach to record a bot for the AI market leader....

DoJ claims he used platform's last days to extort its users A 23-year-old Taiwanese man was arrested in New York for allegedly running the $100 million global dark web narcotics e-commerce operation known as Incognito Market....

Opponents of Myanmar's internet-nobbling military government don't like when Facebook asks for their real names Big Tech isn't much help if you're an activist trying to work against a military junta, and FOSS tools aren't a great alternative either, according to opponents of Myanmar's military regime....

Drone island too - in part to keep China at bay, and ensure TSMC's sweet silicon remains available Taiwan's recently elected president, Lai Ching-te, has used his inaugural address to call for the island state to upgrade to an AI nation....

Plus: Windows set for ML-powered always-watching-you Recall feature Build Microsoft isn't waiting around for Intel and AMD to get their neural processing units (NPUs) up to snuff and is pushing its AI PC agenda forward with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus system-on-chips (SoCs)....

New infosec intelligence service aims to spread the word about recently discovered vulns in free code Securing open source software may soon become a little bit easier thanks to a new vulnerability info-sharing effort initiated by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)....

Let me go, Brandon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the US from the UK, the High Court of England and Wales ruled Monday....

A case of 'keep digging deeper' actually being the right move for Elon, potentially America's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reportedly approved Neuralink to implant an updated brain chip in a second human patient. The Elon Musk startup also hopes to perform ten tryouts by the end of the year....

Luckily we have the Wayback Machine The web is melting away like so many glaciers these days....

Staff decibel level is high - and not just from all those jet engines A union representing Boeing employees held a training session last week on whistleblower protection rights, suggesting the troubled jetmaker's problems may be far from over....

Also, feds who switch to Google Workspace for 3 years get an extra year for free Updated Google has taken a victory lap in the wake of high-profile intrusions into Microsoft's systems, and says businesses should ditch Exchange and OneDrive for Gmail and Google Drive....

Blind customers complain they've been forgotten in rollout of latest UI Sonos has alienated chunks of its customer base after releasing a revamped app for its music boxes that strips users of often-used features, including making it nearly "impossible" for the vision impaired....

Just ask a pal in a neighboring town with laxer restrictions Updated Police in multiple major US cities have figured out a trick to circumvent bans on facial recognition technology. Just ask a friend in a city without any such restrictions to do it for you....

This bird isn't going to space for a while Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule will spend a little longer on Earth than planned following the discovery of a leak in one of the spacecraft's reaction control thrusters....

As OpenAI's safety culture comes under scrutiny, CEO bemoans his lack of privacy Spare a thought for poor Sam Altman. Amid the ongoing drama that is OpenAI, with high-profile departures and regulators worrying about safety, the CEO is complaining that his fame put an end to impromptu dining in his own city....

WatchTowr publishes report claiming vendor failed to issue fixes after four months Infosec boffins say they were forced to go public after QNAP failed to fix various vulnerabilities that were reported to it months ago....

Forced selloff case will likely be appealed again ... see you in (Supreme) court The US Department of Justice and Bytedance spent a rare moment unified on Friday when the duo asked for a fast-tracked court schedule for the Chinese short video apps divest or ban case....

Less middleware plus more AI equals ... fewer people? Exclusive Red Hat is slowing or stopping development of some of its middleware software, a situation which could result in some staff layoffs....

Computers learning to spot sass - what could go wrong? Researchers from the University of Groningen's Speech Technology Lab say they have created a multimodal algorithm that can detect sarcasm in speech....

Already delayed, IBM and Deloitte's 'Single Trade Window' presents SaaSy challenge's to tax collector The UK's public spending watchdog is warning that the nation's tax collector needs be become an "intelligent client" in its handling of tech service providers contracted to create a "single trade window" for post-Brexit border arrangements already beset with delays....

Several people are typing. And something might be learning... Salesforce division Slack has responded to criticism by users outraged that its privacy principles allowed the messaging service to slurp customer data for AI training unless specifically told not to, claiming the data never leaves the platform and isn't used to train "third party" models....

It quickly realized dry' progress updates weren't cutting it CyberUK Emotional intelligence was at the heart of the British Library's widely hailed response to its October ransomware attack, according to CEO Roly Keating....

Has Cupertino been trolling us all along? Opinion Apple! What the hell were you smoking? How can a market leader worth $2.9 trillion make such a massive marketing mistake as the advert for the latest iPad?...

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