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But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems Oracle has had a big win in Japan that could turn into something enormous, and also revealed plans to score more success in the land of the rising sun....

Plans multilingual 400 billion parameter version, but starts with more modest fare Meta has unleashed its latest large language model (LLM) - named Llama 3 - and claims it will challenge much larger models from the likes of Google, Mistral, and Anthropic....

Robo-plane was made to restrain itself so as not to harm pilot or airframe Video The US Air Force Test Pilot School and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) claim to have achieved a breakthrough in machine learning by demonstrating that AI software can fly a modified F-16 fighter jet in a dogfight against human pilots....

Source blames BlackSuit infection - as separately ISP Frontier confirms cyberattack Octapharma Plasma has blamed IT "network issues" for the ongoing closure of its 150-plus centers across the US. It's feared a ransomware infection may be the root cause of the medical firm's ailment....

'I want to buy a car. That's all' Crooks are exploiting month-old OpenMetadata vulnerabilities in Kubernetes environments to mine cryptocurrency using victims' resources, according to Microsoft....

More like Instability AI, right kids? Stability AI is laying off staff in its search of steadier footing following the sudden departure of its CEO late last month....

Big Blue bosses retaliate against those seeking overtime, lawsuit claims IBM has been accused of cheating its executive assistants by denying them overtime pay and meal breaks and retaliating against them for accurately reporting their working hours....

Alphabet Workers Union says bosses refuse to listen to concerns Google has fired more than two dozen employees after they staged sit-ins at the web giant's offices in protest of its cloud contract with the Israeli government....

Do not pass go, do not collect $200, says government agency The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices....

And it's far from the only hyperscaler getting in on the act Microsoft is looking to significantly expand datacenter space to service expected AI demand, tripling the rate at which it adds capacity early in its next financial year. Other hyperscalers appear to be following suit....

Vote met strong opposition from Biden's office A draft law to restrict the US government's ability to procure data on citizens through data brokers will progress to the Senate after being passed in the House of Representatives....

Not just Windows 10. Don't forget about Exchange Server, Skype for Business, and all those Office installations Windows 10 isn't the only Microsoft product due for the chop next year - end of support also beckons for Office 2016, 2019, and a swathe of productivity servers....

Criminals make lucrative use of stolen credit cards Black Hat Asia Speaking at Black Hat Asia on Thursday, a Korean researcher revealed how the discovery of one phishing website led to uncovering an operation whose activities leveraged second-hand shops and included using Apple's "someone-else pickup" method to cash in....

Some say various cell services were out, others still say landlines were affected. What just happened? Updated Widespread 911 outages in the United States appear to have mostly been resolved, though that doesn't mean the cause is clear....

It'll be pricier, but there are geopolitical benefits, says CEO TSMC boss C C Wei says customers who want to fabricate in the chip giant's non-Taiwan facilities will need share the cost by paying more....

Thermal shield damage is screwing with daytime observations of X-ray bursts NASA is sending astronauts out to fix an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station (ISS) after the instrument developed a "light leak."...

Extent of information seized will be a concern for those affected Ransomware strikes at yet another US healthcare organization led to the theft of sensitive data belonging to just shy of 185,000 people....

AI assistant turned up via an Edge update. It was an accident. This time... Microsoft's Copilot obsession has continued with the AI assistant unexpectedly arriving on Windows Server 2022 this week, in a situation the software giant is calling an "incorrect install."...

Memorymaker to park mega plant in Syracuse, says senator Memory chipmaker Micron looks set to be the next recipient of US government subsidy cash with $6.1 billion heading its way to help fund new-build semiconductor plants....

Restructure of finance teams will see some leave, and other roles created in Mexico City, Bangalore, and US cities Google is again firing the redundancy cannon for the second time this year, with a restructure being pushed through and teams in the finance and real estate units of the business understood to be impacted....

Platforms should not confront users with 'binary choice' over personal data use The EU's Data Protection Board (EDPB) has told large online platforms they should not offer users a binary choice between paying for a service and consenting to their personal data being used to provide targeted advertising....

Only good for calls and texts pretty much, and that's no mistake Those who find modern smartphones too distracting from real life might be interested in the Boring Phone (no relation to the smartphone of the same name), a novelty flip phone based on HMD's Nokia 2660 Flip....

Police mimic Spotify Wrapped videos to let crims know they're being hunted Feature Cops have brought down a dark-web souk that provided cyber criminals with convincing copies of trusted brands' websites for use in phishing campaigns....

2.9 gives a taste of what's to come Major updates to Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool don't come along very often, but APT 2.9 is here with a significant facelift....

Resist the pressure to jump on the bandwagon just yet warns, warns Forrester Forrester Research says that although 50 models of AI PCs are already on sale today there remains "no killer app" that would make any of them an essential tool for business users....

Open source Redis alternative gathers momentum Valkey, the value-key database pitched as an open source alternative to Redis, has acquired new backers and announced its first release candidate....

Hypershield detects bad behavior and automagically reconfigures networks to snuff out threats Cisco has developed a product called Hypershield that it thinks represents a new way to do network security....

Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes The European Commission on Wednesday gave TikTok 24 hours to explain the risk assessment procedures it used before launching a version of the made-in-China app that rewards users for using it in certain ways....

When you decide not to trust a big chunk of the supply chain, tech (and trade) get harder One of the biggest challenges Singapore faces is the potential for a split between tech stacks developed and used by China and the West, according to the island nation's Cyber Security Administration (CSA) chief executive David Koh....

One last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as 'stationary testbed' NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter concluded its mission on Tuesday, sending a final signal in its role as a companion to the Perseverance Rover....

Stymied by sanctions, it had to go ... but where? Chinese surveillance camera manufacturer Zhejiang Dahua Technology, which has found itself on the USA's entity list of banned orgs, has fully sold off its stateside subsidiary for $15 million to Taiwan's Central Motion Picture Corporation, according to the firm's annual report released on Monday....

Nobody cared enough to check why audits were out of whack A software glitch at Star Casino in Sydney, Australia, saw it inadvertently give away millions in cash without realizing it - for weeks....

Middle Kingdom biz accused of IP theft and changing names to evade sanctions Hewlett Packard Enterprise has filed a lawsuit against Inspur Group, China's largest server maker, for allegedly violating five of its server technology patents....

Opponents warn almost anyone could be asked to share info with Uncle Sam On Thursday the US Senate is expected to reauthorize the contentious warrantless surveillance powers conferred by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and may even strengthen them with language that, according to US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), "will force a huge range of companies and individuals to spy for the government."...

Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan Amazon Web Services is abandoning its fleet of Snowmobile data haulers, the trucks packed with petabytes of spinning disks designed to get large enterprises into the cloud....

Up to 24 outfits to bag taxpayer cash for projects 'developing a viable product or service' for US chip industry Small businesses wishing they could get their hands on some of those billions of dollars in semiconductor funding being doled out as part of America's CHIPS Act are in luck, as the White House has set aside $54 million for tiny firms with big ideas....

You can trust us, we're the good guys The NSA has released guidance to help organizations protect their AI systems and better defend the defense industry....

Damn you, network virtualization A law professor is warning a proposed reintroduction net neutrality in the US will allow cellular networks to create fast lanes" for some applications, and that this undermines the entire net neutrality principle....

The cutting-edge chipmaking tool for a secret customer Dutch semiconductor toolmaker ASML has shipped its second-ever high numerical aperture (NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine to an undisclosed customer....

Water tank overflowed during one system malfunction, says Mandiant The Russian military's notorious Sandworm crew was likely behind cyberattacks on US and European water plants that, in at least one case, caused a tank to overflow....

If the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished Video Atlas, the humanoid robot that's been a centerpiece of Boston Dynamics' robot lineup for nearly a decade, has been retired. In its place is, well, Atlas - an all-electric version designed for commercial use....

Won't somebody please think of the shareholders Kettle The price of everything is going up because corporations gotta corp and produce record profits year after year. That means you and I are expected to cough up more....

Muted the audio? That's an advert. Paused a video? That's an advert Will Roku TVs of the future throw up targeted ads on the screen whenever you pause a video? We hope not but......

Whew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034 NASA has finally confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission will be heading to Titan, one of Saturn's Moons, meaning the team behind the project can finalize its design and get to work building the spacecraft....

Given the electric car maker's annus horribilis so far in 2024, does the chief even deserve it? A Delaware court may have voided Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package in February, but now the board is asking shareholders to reinstate it....

Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI Intel Labs revealed its largest neuromorphic computer on Wednesday, a 1.15 billion neuron system, which it says is roughly analogous to an owl's brain....

Guess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I Samsung has revealed its upgraded LPDDR5X memory modules, which features improved performance, capacity, and efficiency....

There's something nice about seeing Web3 fanatics in ankle-deep water And the Lord looked down upon the crypto bros and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, "I will send down upon thee a flood to wash out thy crypto conference."...

CIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux The bigger RHELatives continue to diverge slightly from Red Hat, with additional drivers and newer kernel versions....

Company rejects claims as 'inaccurate' A Boeing whistleblower has called for the embattled aircraft manufacturer's fleet of 787s to be grounded for gap checks....