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Monday March 17, 2025. 11:27 AM
Technology Services 4 framework expands by £4B, with procurement to begin this week UK government is set to crack open the pork barrel for up to £16 billion in contracts for a range of IT services. The buying framework was delayed by six months and the total pot of...
Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing-dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.
Maddening techno bass loop, Zoolander reference, and 14 minutes of time wasted A vulnerability analyst and prominent member of the infosec industry has blasted Microsoft for refusing to look at a bug report unless he submitted a video alongside a written explanation.…
Well, maybe not richer, but we're about to find out Opinion The universe ended unexpectedly on a March Monday in 2025. To the relief of many, it came back a few days later much as before, but with one very significant change. One that may herald significant changes for all...
An anonymous reader shared this article from TechCrunch: Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and...
What comes after testing in the software development lifecycle? Aaah, never mind... let's skip to maintenance Who, Me? With the weekend behind us, it's time to once again ask the question 'Who, Me?' That's the name of The Register's Monday column in which we share...
Yes, we are. And we promise your 'Droid and smart home kit will get a 'new experience' Google has decided to silence its voice Assistant and replace it with the Gemini AI service.…
The electric return of Renault’s iconic sports car has just taken a step closer to reality—and we got our first glimpse of it.
Google collaborated with Imperial College London and its 'Fleming Initiative' partnership with Imperial NHS, giving their scientists 'access to a powerful new AI designed' built with Gemini 2.0 'to make research faster and more efficient,' according to an announcement from...
Second time's a charm SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endurance capsule successfully launched on Friday, March 14, and docked with the International Space Station (ISS) just over a day later.…
Long-time Slashdot reader chicksdaddy writes: A group of U.S. consumer advocacy groups on Wednesday proposed legislation to address the growing epidemic of 'zombie' Internet of Things (IoT) devices that have had software support cut off by their manufacturer, Fight To Repair ...
PLUS: Foxconn wants 40 percent AI server market share; Atlassian CEO jets into controversy; Starlink reaches 800 million in India; And more! Asia In Brief Chinese authorities last week announced “identification measures” for AI-generated content that will require it to...
Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman 'recently told Entrepreneur magazine that almost five years of remote work has 'been fantastic for us,'' writes the Seattle Times. Zillow shifted to allowing people to work fully remote during the pandemic. It's been a recruiting and retention tool ...
Sunday March 16, 2025. 11:58 PM
PLUS: Alleged Garantex admin arrested in India; Google deletes more North Korean malware Infosec In Brief United States Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr has unveiled plans to form a Council on National Security that will combat foreign threats to American ...
Intel's stock jumped nearly 19% this week. 'However, in the past year through Wednesday's close, Intel stock had fallen 53%,' notes Investor's Business Daily: The appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as CEO is a 'good start' but Intel has significant challenges, Morgan Stanley analyst...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Wall Street Journal K-12 education reporter Matt Barnum has a heads-up for parents: There's a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI to Cheat. Barnum writes: 'A high-school senior from New Jersey doesn't want the world to know that she cheated...
How to tame its hypersensitive hyperparameters and get it running on your PC Hands on How much can reinforcement learning - and a bit of extra verification - improve large language models, aka LLMs? Alibaba's Qwen team aims to find out with its latest release, QwQ.…
America's Vice President 'expressed confidence Friday that a deal to sell TikTok and keep the social media app running in the U.S. would largely be in place by an April deadline,' reports NBC News. (Specifically the Vice President said 'There will almost certainly be a...
After Meta convinced an arbitrator to temporarily prevent a whistleblower from promoting their book about the company (titled: Careless People), the book climbed to the top of Amazon's best-seller list. And the book's publisher Macmillan released a defiant statement that...
'The number of discrete GPU developers from the U.S. and Western Europe shrank to three companies in 2025,' notes Tom's Hardware, 'from around 10 in 2000.' (Nvidia, AMD, and Intel...) No company in the recent years — at least outside of China — was bold enough to engage into ...
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