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Thursday May 15, 2025. 08:32 AM
Would you believe it, this RaaS cartel says Russia is off limits DragonForce, a new-ish ransomware-as-a-service operation, has given organizations another cyber threat to worry about — unless they’re in Russia, which is off limits to the would-be extortionists.…
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Fintech startup Klarna is now recruiting humans after its AI customer service agents underperformed. The buy-now-pay-later company, which eliminated its marketing contracts in 2023 and customer service team in 2024, now plans an 'Uber-type setup' with remote gig workers....
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IT department keeps the infrastructure. Then this new persona takes over and handles the AI stuff Some organizations have started hiring for a new tech job: The Machine Learning Administrator – aka the “ML admin”.…
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google's DeepMind research division claims its newest AI agent marks a significant step toward using the technology to tackle big problems in math and science. The system, known as AlphaEvolve, is based on the company's...
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Partly because America does AI wrong and it can get more done with less Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough high-end GPUs to train new AI models for years, in part because it’s found more efficient ways to do so.…
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Microsoft quietly announced earlier this week that it plans to shut down a long-standing tool supplying search engine startups and other software developers with a raw feed of Bing search results. From a report: The Bing Search APIs, or application programming interfaces,...
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Agentic AI requires a whole new type of architecture; traditional workflows create serious gridlock, dragging down speed and performance. Databricks is signaling its intent to get ahead in this next generation of app building, announcing it will purchase open-source...
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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Home Assistant; YaST; bpfilter; Flatpak; More LSFMM+BPF 2025 coverage. Briefs: Screen security; Guix on Codeberg; Postgres I/O; GNOME executive director; Nextcloud blog; Podman 5.5.0; OSL sustainability; Quotes;... ...
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Google has warned that the hacker group known as 'Scattered Spider,' which recently disrupted UK retailer Marks & Spencer, is now targeting U.S. retailers with aggressive and sophisticated cyberattacks. 'U.S. retailers should take note. These actors are aggressive, creative, ...
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A petting zoo is currently under investigation after a 52-year-old South Carolina man, Eric Slate, was found dead with 'multiple blunt injuries' inside of the kangaroo enclosure. It's believed that the kangaroo killed the man, but we won't know for sure until the autopsy is...
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Netflix said its cheaper, ad-supporter tier now has 94 million monthly active users -- an increase of more than 20 million since its last public tally in November. CNBC reports: The company and its peers have been increasingly leaning on advertising to boost the...
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Bit barn operator to wedge 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325Xs into AI training cluster Interview After some teething pains, TensorWave CEO Darrick Horton is confident that AMD's Instinct accelerators are ready to take on large-scale AI training.…
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You’d almost forget, but aside from the enterprise-focused variant of Solaris for which Oracle sells support contracts, the company has also nominally maintained and released a version of Solaris aimed at non-production use and enthusiasts. This version, called Solaris CBE or...
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With the fourth preview of the planned.NET 10 software development platform, Microsoft has delivered a variety of enhancements to the platform’s libraries, runtime, and frameworks, including faster processing of GZip data streams and escape analysis for local struct fields ...
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The next Starship launch may come as soon as next week. A test of its Raptor engines suggests SpaceX has resolved the issues that plagued its recent flights.
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Apple's smartphone shipments in China plunged nearly 50% year-over-year in March 2025, as domestic brands like Huawei and Vivo surged ahead -- now controlling 92% of the market. MacRumors reports: The steep decline saw shipments fall to just 1.89 million units, down from...
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More than $100M in costs could be cut by gutting duplicative IT alone, making DOGE itself look a bit redundant Comment Cost-trimming in the US federal government is all the rage right now – and a new report finds more than $100 million in savings available to the Feds by...
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Microsoft faces more legal action in the UK, this time from a barrister named Alexander Wolfson who issued an opt-out class action claim this week alleging that public or private organizations in the UK that purchased certain software licenses (including for Microsoft Office ...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Would you believe Microsoft has announced a new Linux distribution service for its Azure cloud service? You should. For many years, the most popular operating system on Azure has not been Windows Server, it's been Linux. Last...
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In another twist for streaming subscribers, Warner Bros. Discovery is scrapping the “Max” brand and reviving the “HBO Max” name this summer. The company made this move official at its Upfront event today in New York, touting it as a way to double down on what works...
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