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Ozzie definitely not Satoshi Nakamoto, faces 6M legal bill and possible perjury trial Australian Craig Wright has finally admitted he is not the inventor of Bitcoin after losing several cases in the High Court of England and Wales, whose judge has suggested he be investigated for perjury....

Asteroid Apophis will come within 32,000km of Earth in 2029, which makes it very much worth a visit The European Space Agency has begun work on a planetary defence mission that will intercept an asteroid predicted to come within 32,000km of Earth in 2029....

Will become exclusive route to market for joint projects Fujitsu has made a "significant investment" in Toronto-based Cohere Inc., a developer of large language models and associated tech, and will bring the five-year-old startup's wares to the world....

Rescued its partner in Indonesia as it dodged regulations Chinese short video platform TikTok is fast becoming an Asian e-commerce giant, according to analysis released by Singapore-based consultancy Momentum Works on Tuesday....

What next, nutrition labels on cartons? Probably Comment FYI: It's not just Reddit posts, books, articles, webpages, code, music, images, and so forth being used by multi-billion-dollar businesses for training neural networks. AI labs have been teaching models using subtitles scraped from at least tens of thousands of YouTube videos, much to the surprise of the footage creators....

India, Turkey, also being targeted by campaign that relies on corporate email compromise MuddyWater, an Iranian government-backed cyber espionage crew, has upgraded its malware with a custom backdoor, which it's used to target Israeli organizations....

Bernie Sanders puts e-souk titan on blast for workplace harm Risk of workplace injury is extremely high for Amazon warehouse workers during Prime Day and the holiday season, according to a US Senate committee report....

Domain name giant yanked into court after Entri Connect disconnect GoDaddy is facing an antitrust lawsuit over claims it unfairly and underhandedly blackballed a smaller outfit's DNS automation tool in favor of its own apparently inferior product....

Excel-lent, Smithers, have we fired accounting yet? Researchers at Microsoft have developed a framework designed to make it easier for large language models (LLMs) to analyze the content of spreadsheets and perform data management and analysis tasks, because why not?...

Extortionists left hanging after rivals crawled into the woodwork The Scattered Spider cybercrime group is now using RansomHub and Qilin ransomware variants in its attacks, illustrating a possible power shift among hacking groups....

Next year the 'worm' turns 50 - there's room for both at the US space agency Logowatch NASA is celebrating 65 years of its iconic "meatball" logo, despite spending the best part of 17 years trying to kill the poor thing....

Billed as a city in its own right, center built to advance megacorp's 5G, cloud, and AI tech Huawei's massive R&D complex in Shanghai is finally built - intended to give the US-sanction-hit Chinese tech giant a boost when it comes to competing with international rivals....

Meanwhile, software vendors are left paying the GenAI 'tax' as users yet to see value Gartner has nudged down its expected growth in worldwide IT spending for 2024 from 8 percent to 7.5 percent, with the total figure now expected to reach $5.26 trillion....

AI supremacy is a helluva drug, and Redmond's old habits die hard Updated UK antitrust regulators today announced the beginning of a merger inquiry into Microsoft's cash deal with startup Inflection AI, which included poaching employees....

The mission? To spend less time in patch purgatory Microsoft is making yet another attempt to combat update bloat with checkpoint cumulative updates coming to both Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025....

RansomHub allegedly strikes again as its star continues to rise in the cybercrime scene US drugstore chain Rite Aid has admitted that last month's "data security incident" compromised the data of 2.2 million individuals....

Has America been taking it too easy on local companies so far? Analysis Intel's investment arm might be forced to divest interests in China due to incoming US regulations governing American funds going to Chinese tech companies. The chipmaker is one of the biggest such investors, despite receiving billions from Washington to boost semiconductor production efforts at home....

Several models roasted for perceived flaws at this point, so maybe double-checking form's not a bad idea Tesla's Robotaxi reveal event is being postponed after company boss Elon Musk decided the front of the vehicle needs a tweak....

Move follows Instagram and Facebook owner's decision to reverse direction in EU after protests A UK data rights campaign group has launched a complaint with the data law regulator against Meta's change of privacy policy which allows it to scrape user data to develop AI models....

Oracle's priorities may lie elsewhere but it is unfair to say all innovation can go in community edition, reckons analyst The latest release of MySQL has underwhelmed some commentators who fear Oracle - the custodian of the open source database - may have other priorities....

Jon Kern is looking for Agile exemplars, not the 'Agile Industrial Complex' Interview The Agile Manifesto was published almost a quarter of a century ago. Yet as the years have rolled by, its lofty ideals have run headlong into the brick wall of management desire for process and reporting....

18 months late, overbudget... report finds council's SAP ERP rip 'n' replace with Unit4 had hidden complexity A UK public authority responsible for about 1.1 billion ($1.43 billion) in annual spending damaged its ERP project - which saw SAP ditched in favor of Unit4 - by underestimating its complexity and kicking off with an "unrealistic timeline of 15 months," according to a public report....

There's a lot of territory to cover here Qualcomm has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in India against Chinese smartphone-maker Transsion....

Stop us if you think you've heard this one before: Legal supergroup demands billions from Verizon Big Music has launched a fresh lawsuit aimed at forcing ISPs to take action against users who trade in stolen copyrighted content....

Two-year legal saga ends with Netherlands-based entity ready to bring diverse AI interests to the world Yandex has untangled its Dutch entity from its Russian operations in a $5.4 billion deal, the Saas and search provider announced on Monday - meaning it should be free to pursue customers outside of Vladimir Putin's domain....

Euro trade body tires of being a pawn in the war of the tech giants From the department of "the lady doth protest too much, methinks" comes news that Microsoft wasn't the only tech giant willing to offer cash to a European cloud trade body. It seems Google was also keen to get a piece of the action....

Hasn't said how it did it, but has form cracking devices The FBI on Monday revealed it has gained access to a phone it says was used by Thomas Matthew Crooks - the man who shot at and wounded former US president Donald Trump on July 13 in an apparent failed assassination attempt....

Privacy preserved, with potential to lose the camera in your pocket or beyond Chinese consumer electronics outfit Honor has thought outside the clamshell by creating a laptop with a stowable magnetic camera....

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss The DarkGate malware family has become more prevalent in recent months, after one of its main competitors was taken down by the FBI....

After all we've done for you, America, sniffs antivirus lab Kaspersky has confirmed it will shutter its American operations and cut US-based jobs following President Biden's ban on the Russian business last month....

Cloud biz claims it's full speed ahead - and damn the torpedoes The FTC is taking a close look at IBM's acquisition of HashiCorp, according to a filing made to America's financial watchdog....

'Likelihood of success is even clearer,' thanks to those Supremes The Federal Communications Commission's attempt to reassert net neutrality rules has been put on hold by the US Sixth Circuit of Appeals pending further review....

Chinese corp gives iPhone a run for its yuan Global smartphone sales are continuing to rebound, partly thanks to a "buzz" around high-end devices supporting Gen AI, but mostly due to budget conscious consumers seeking out low-end devices....

Plus: Broader Rust abilities, better sandboxing, and more The latest Linux kernel is here, with relatively few new features but better support for several hardware platforms, including non-Intel kit....

You have to plan for the future, but we're pretty far from a license to fly Southwest Airlines and Archer Aviation have penned a preliminary deal the pair hope will give them a slice of the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi action* in future California skies....

Lava tubes promise shelter in future Moon missions Scientists have uncovered evidence of underground caves on the Moon that humans could potentially use for shelter during a mission to the Earth's natural satellite....

'It seems like they really don't have a full grasp of what's going on with this patch' Exclusive A Microsoft zero-day vulnerability that Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative team claims it found and reported to Redmond in May was disclosed and patched by the Windows giant in July's Patch Tuesday - but without any credit given to ZDI....

Customers debate reasons behind move, say halo of Teams has slipped now Copilot is here Analysis Arguments over the retirement of Office 365 connectors within Teams shows no sign of abating, with some users pointing to the EU-forced unbundling of the product, while analysts are wondering if this a sign of a new, pricier, era for the application....

Company keeps quiet amid high-profile compromises Security researchers are claiming a spate of DNS hijackings at web3 businesses is linked to Squarespace's acquisition of Google Domains last year....

They're gonna need a heck of a lot of memory bandwidth - not to mention capacity - to do it Analysis Within a few years, AMD expects to have notebook chips capable of running 30 billion parameter large language models locally at a speedy 100 tokens per second....

Fatter front end and execution engine meets a higher bandwidth backend and a true AVX-512 implementation With the first Zen 5 CPUs and SoCs set to ship later this month, AMD offered a closer look at the architectural improvements underpinning the platform's 16 percent uplift in instructions per clock (IPC) during its Tech Day event in LA last week....

Musk firm to work with the FAA on why the second stage leaked liquid oxygen SpaceX has confirmed the payload of last week's Starlink launch is pretty much a total writeoff. However, standing down Falcon 9 as authorities look into the incident could have major implications for the space industry....

Demain est un autre jour The future of French IT heavyweight Atos is on firmer ground after the company secured funding for its rescue plan by signing a Lock-Up Agreement with creditors, although the restructuring remains subject to certain conditions....

New project from Atom developer gains a second host OS Zed - sorry, US readers, that's its name, not "Zee" - is a new coding tool. Until very recently it was Mac-only, but not any more....

Deep experience of the older tech crowd is nothing short of vital, yet projects need new devs to move forward Opinion A "Youth and Open Source" panel was held at the United Nations (UN) Open Source Program Office (OSPO) for Good conference in the UN building in Manhattan. There was only one little problem with it. To quote Ruth Ikegah, a young Nigerian open source project manager, "We need more young people here because I see a lot of old people here."...

Case centers on 3G, 4G, and 5G patents held by US wireless IP holder InterDigital Lenovo is claiming a victory of sorts in a UK Court of Appeal ruling that bumps up the amount it owes US patentholder InterDigital in a telecoms licensing dispute - the payment is much lower than the total it might have had to cough up....

Hey, here's an idea... create a point system for every time Microsoft hurts us Opinion As Microsoft approaches its 50th birthday next year, it can look back with satisfaction at having created the first era of universal corporate computing, and of having ridden successfully on the coat-tails of the second....

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Training AI models doesn't need low latency. It needs cheap energy - wherever it can be found Feature Port Hedland is a town of just 16,000 people in a hot and dusty corner of northwestern Australia, 1,600 kilometers by road from the nearest substantial city. As such, it's seemingly an odd place for a datacenter run by Australian operator NEXTDC. Yet such locations are increasingly in demand, thanks to their proximity to energy sources - given the voracious appetite for compute capacity to train artificial intelligence models....

Years of crackdowns haven't stopped some revolting stuff China's many attempts to clean up its internet appear not to have prevented the proliferation of revolting material and products that abuse or target children....