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Amazon to blow $11B on cluster of Indiana bit barns -
Talk about going round the (South) Bend
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is adding $11 billion of datacenter capacity in St Joseph County outside South Bend, Indiana, the cloud giant announced Thursday.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 22:34:09 GMT)Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip -
Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal
Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using AI software to make it seem as if he made racist and antisemitic remarks.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:43:10 GMT)Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls' -
Cash to go out as refunds to punters
The FTC today announced it would be sending refunds totaling $5.6 million to Ring customers, paid from the Amazon subsidiary's coffers.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:03:10 GMT)ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off -
As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts
Between shutting down or selling TikTok, owner ByteDance would prefer doing the former.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:08:48 GMT)FCC votes 3-2 to bring net neutrality back from the dead -
Law responds again to pings
The FCC voted Thursday to restore America's net neutrality rules, nearly seven years after they were taken offline.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:14:11 GMT)Detecting drift and dealing with the Silicon Valley mindset -
Pulumi's CEO on new products and that other Infrastructure as Code company
Interview Infrastructure as code biz Pulumi has updated its eponymous Deployments product with drift detection and automated clean-up for an untidy reality.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:45:13 GMT)Two cuffed in Samourai Wallet crypto dirty money sting -
Suspects in Portugal and the US said to have laundered over $100M
Two men alleged to be co-founders of cryptocurrency biz Samourai Wallet face serious charges and potentially decades in US prison over claims they owned a product that facilitated the laundering of over $100 million in criminal cash.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:15:09 GMT)TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026 -
Watch out Intel ... Angstrom-class A16 with Super Rail backside power tech incoming
Semiconductor giant TSMC has disclosed details of a process technology called A16 that could be delivering the first 1.6nm chips for customers by 2026.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:30:12 GMT)Spotify claims Apple wants 'tax' for in-app pricing tweak -
App maker accuses Cupertino of defying EU rules
Spotify claims Apple rejected an update to the popular music streaming app that would have informed users about purchase methods outside of the Apple ecosystem.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:54:10 GMT)DARPA's latest toy is a 20-foot, 12-ton tank that drives itself -
Crew entirely optional
DARPA has been working on off-road autonomous vehicles for decades, and now it has a combat-scale unmanned tank to show.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:00:11 GMT)City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout -
Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place
Birmingham City Council, Europe's biggest local authority, has no way of knowing if financial fraud has been committed after it failed to run security and audit features in a new Oracle Fusion ERP system.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:30:08 GMT)SK hynix breaks Q1 revenue records on back of AI boom -
Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM tech
The global AI infrastructure buying frenzy is still in full swing – so much so that it has pushed the world's second largest memory maker, SK hynix, into its second highest operating profit ever and an all-time high for Q1 revenues.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:00:05 GMT)Russia, Iran pose most aggressive threat to 2024 elections, say infoseccers -
Google security crew reveal ‘the four Ds’ to be on the watch for
It may come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that experts say, in revealing the most prevalent and likely tactics to meddle with elections this year, that state-sponsored cybercriminals pose the biggest threat.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:34:08 GMT)Meta's value plummets as Zuckerberg admits AI needs more time and money -
Revenues up, but is the AI hype bubble is threatening to burst?
Meta's shares tumbled after company boss Mark Zuckerberg said the quiet bit out loud: it will take a while before AI bets start paying back the huge financial investments it is making.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:00:08 GMT)Atos hopes for lifeline as refinancing saga set to drag on into May -
Struggling French tech giant posts disappointing Q1 results
Crisis-hit tech giant Atos is pushing back the deadline for its refinancing proposals after posting a slim operating profit of €48 million ($51 million) for calendar Q1.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:35:36 GMT)Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night -
What do we say to the God of Death? Not today
Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has woken up again, having survived three lunar nights.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:45:07 GMT)Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison -
The software redemption
Teaching prisoners how to design and program websites turns out to improve their sense of self-worth and provides them with digital literacy skills that help them stay out of prison.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:00:10 GMT)Throwflame launches fire-spitting robo-dog from Hell -
The Thermonator can be yours for just $9,420
Picture Boston Dynamics' nightmare fuel robot dog Spot. Now imagine it 1,000 percent more terrifying.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:19:15 GMT)Microsoft and Amazon's AI ambitions spark regulatory rumble -
Tech giants confident everything's in order
UK regulators want to hear from "interested third parties" on whether Microsoft and Amazon's investments in AI startups is impeding competition.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:34:18 GMT)BMW calls for vendor openness in quest to mine its own processes -
'Software companies try to extend their reach and their usage, but this can't be by locking in users,' says process mining lead
BMW's process mining leader has called for greater openness among enterprise application and software vendors to avoid data lock-in.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:30:09 GMT)Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful -
Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters
Systems Approach Full disclosure: I have a history with AI, having flirted with it in the 1980s (remember expert systems?) and then having safely avoided the AI winter of the late 1980s by veering off into formal verification before finally landing on networking as my specialty in 1988.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:26:12 GMT)Indian bank’s IT is so shabby it’s been banned from opening new accounts -
After two years of warnings, and outages, regulators ran out of patience with Kotak Mahindra Bank
India’s central bank has banned Kotak Mahindra Bank from signing up new customers for accounts or credit cards through its online presence and app.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 06:29:12 GMT)Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes -
Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents
Samsung SDI, the Korean giant’s battery biz, on Tuesday promised EV batteries that can charge to 80 percent capacity in a mere nine minutes, plus models that can perform at that level for 20 years.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:15:07 GMT)IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4B, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat -
Investors want to know what Big Blue is smoking after growth disappoints
IBM has announced it will acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, and touted the deal as meaning its hybrid cloud platform will emerge with a “comprehensive” set of products.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 01:58:32 GMT)Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors -
And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacks
The director general of Australia’s lead intelligence agency and the commissioner of its Federal Police yesterday both called for social networks to offer more assistance to help their investigators work on cases involving terrorism, child exploitation, and racist nationalism.…
(Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:29:13 GMT)Governments issue alerts after 'sophisticated' state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes -
Don't get too comfortable: 'Line Dancer' malware may be targeting other vendors, too
A previously unknown and "sophisticated" nation-state group compromised Cisco firewalls as early as November 2023 for espionage purposes — and possibly attacked network devices made by other vendors including Microsoft, according to warnings from the networking giant and three Western governments.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 23:11:06 GMT)With Run:ai acquisition, Nvidia aims to manage your AI kubes -
Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMs
Nvidia on Wednesday announced the acquisition of AI-centric Kubernetes orchestration provider Run:ai in an effort to help bolster the efficiency of computing clusters built on GPU.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:27:13 GMT)Apple releases OpenELM, a slightly more accurate LLM -
It's not the fastest machine learning model, but you can't have everything
Apple, not normally known for its openness, has released a generative AI model called OpenELM which apparently outperforms a set of other language models trained on public data sets.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:56:08 GMT)Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher -
It's the millions-of-robotaxis promise again – and all y'all buying it this time, too?
Opinion Elon Musk has a strategy and you may have seen it before: When things aren't going well, he'll say something wild to take everyone's eyes off the trouble, and raise share prices with dreams.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:20:13 GMT)Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking -
Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done'
Collaboration software used by federal government agencies — this includes apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, and Google — will be required to work together and be securely end-to-end encrypted, if legislation proposed by US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) passes.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:43:28 GMT)Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again' -
And you thought the Bing begging was annoying
Microsoft has made good on its promise, or threat, to put advertisements inside the Windows 11 Start menu with its latest update.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:41:19 GMT)Lenovo and Micron first to implement LPCAMM2 in laptop -
The SODIMM replacement finally arrives
Lenovo's latest ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 laptop is set to be the first to use the new LPCAMM2 memory form factor, the successor to SODIMM sticks.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:45:08 GMT)Microsoft cannot keep its own security in order, so what hope for its add-ons customers? -
Secure-by-default... if your pockets are deep enough
Microsoft has come under fire for charging for security add-ons despite the company's own patchy record when it comes to vulnerabilities and breaches.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:15:11 GMT)US Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs -
Senior execs making $150K+ will still have to abide by them, but they fall away for everyone else
The US Chamber of Commerce is saying it will sue the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for officially banning noncompete clauses in employment contracts across America.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:30:07 GMT)Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward – with receipts -
What's that? Q1 was better than expected? Pump those shares
Another Boeing whistleblower has come forward to report problems at his former employer, but that doesn't seem to have upset shareholders, who sent shares skyward on news of a quarter bearing fewer losses than expected.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:45:07 GMT)Management company settles for $18.4M after nuclear weapons plant staff fudged their timesheets -
The firm 'fessed up to staff misconduct and avoided criminal liability
A company contracted to manage an Amarillo, Texas nuclear weapons facility has to pay US government $18.4 million in a settlement over allegations that its atomic technicians fudged their timesheets to collect more money from Uncle Sam.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:00:09 GMT)Google cools on cookie phase-out while regulators chew on plans -
Privacy Sandbox slips into 2025 after challenges from UK authorities
Google's plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome is being postponed to 2025 amid wrangling with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:31:28 GMT)US charges Iranians with cyber snooping on government, companies -
Their holiday options are now far more restricted
The US has charged and sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their alleged roles in various attacks on US companies and government departments, all of whom are claimed to have worked for fake companies linked to Iran's military.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:01:56 GMT)Oracle changes its tune with HQ move to Music City -
Nashville 'ticked all the boxes' for Big Red's employees, says founder Ellison
Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison has confirmed that the tech giant plans to move its global headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:31:10 GMT)Tesla misses the mark on all fronts in quarter of chaos -
Who cares that net profit slid 55%? Not Wall Street
In a dynamic first quarter, Elon Musk's Tesla contended with a terrorist organization, survived an arson attempt, and fiercely competed with hybrid car makers, all against a backdrop of falling prices as competition for electric vehicle customers intensified.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:15:12 GMT)Euro cloud group blasts Broadcom over VMware licensing maneuvers -
CISPE says concessions 'solve nothing'
Updated Euro cloud trade body CISPE has hit back at concessions offered by Broadcom over VMware licensing, saying these do not address key issues that led it to lobby the European Commission into investigating.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:30:10 GMT)European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits -
Directive places requirements on gizmo vendors, but still needs formal approval
The European Parliament has adopted the right-to-repair directive with 584 votes in favor and three against, making repairing goods more accessible and cost-effective.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:00:11 GMT)Law prof predicts generative AI will die at the hands of watchdogs -
Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape
Video Generative AI is destined to drown in a tsunami of regulation, argues Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:15:08 GMT)Strong electric car sales expected for 2024, but charging grid needs work -
International Energy Agency points out obvious: Infrastructure needs to meet demand
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is reminding governments to match the continued rapid growth of electric car sales with infrastructure improvements.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:32:36 GMT)Rapidus US chief says AI chip crunch, supply chain paranoia make for an ideal growth climate -
Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators
Interview The foundry space is arguably the most complex and competitive it has been in decades as foundry upstarts in the US and Japan look to challenge heavyweights Samsung and TSMC for a piece of the action.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:30:09 GMT)Graph databases speaking the same language after ISO gives GQL the nod -
Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors
GQL, the query language for graph databases, has been recognized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), offering users more portability of queries and skills between graph database systems.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 08:30:06 GMT)If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? -
One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all
Exclusive At least 18 public-sector websites in the UK and US send visitor data in some form to various web advertising brokers – including an ad-tech biz in China involved in past privacy controversies, a security firm claims.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:29:13 GMT)Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app -
You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) – which manages infrastructure including the Fukushima nuclear power plant – is reportedly involved in an IP dispute over an app that gamifies the crowdsourced identification of faulty power poles.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:33:27 GMT)China's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers -
China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines
Giant Chinese telco China Mobile, which boasts over a billion customers, wants to purchase nearly 8,000 AI servers.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 05:30:09 GMT)Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban -
Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA!
Updated The US Senate has passed a bill that compels TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to offload the app to a US-approved buyer or face a ban. President Biden has indicated he will sign it into law.…
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