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Monday January 13, 2025. 10:20 PM
The Register's Simon Sharwood reports: Broadcom has lost another sizable customer for its VMware platform: Austrian cloud provider Anexia has moved 12,000 VMs, some of them rented by major European businesses, to an open-source system based on the KVM hypervisor. Anexia was...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch, written by Ivan Mehta: Decentralized social network organization Mastodon said Monday that it is planning to create a new nonprofit organization in Europe and hand over ownership of entities responsible for key Mastodon...
European Union regulators are investigating Apple's revised app store fees amid concerns they may increase costs for developers, according to Bloomberg News. The European Commission sent questionnaires to developers in December focusing on Apple's new 'core technology fee'...
The USB Implementers Forum has simplified its labeling system for USB docking stations and cables, dropping technical terms like 'USB4v2' in favor of straightforward speed ratings such as 'USB 80Gbps' or 'USB 40Gbps.' The move follows criticism of previous complex naming...
Microsoft is raising Microsoft 365 subscription prices by up to 46% across six Asian markets to fund AI features. In Australia, annual Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions will increase to AU$179 ($110) from AU$139, while Personal subscriptions will jump to AU$159 ($98) from...
U.S. companies are increasingly using AI to curb hiring plans, citing 'cost avoidance' as a key metric to justify AI investments amid pressure to show returns. At software firm TS Imagine, AI-powered email sorting saves 4,000 work hours annually at 3% of employee costs,...
One in five online job postings may be 'ghost jobs' that companies never intend to fill, according to new data from hiring platform Greenhouse examining its clients' recruitment patterns in 2024. The analysis found that 18-22% of advertised positions across technology,...
Nvidia has hit back at the outgoing Biden administration's AI chip tech export restrictions designed to tighten America's stranglehold on supply chains and maintain market dominance. From a report: The White House today unveiled what it calls the Final Rule on Artificial...
FBI Director Christopher Wray, in his final interview before stepping down, warned that China poses the greatest long-term threat to U.S. national security, calling it 'the defining threat of our generation.' China's cyber program has stolen more American personal and...
Sonos Chief Executive Patrick Spence stepped down on Monday, following a tumultuous period marked by a botched app rollout that angered customers and hurt sales of its new headphones. Board member Tom Conrad, a former Pandora chief technology officer, will serve as interim...
'Neuralink Corp.'s brain-computer device has been implanted in a third patient,' reports Bloomberg, 'and the company has plans for about 20 to 30 more implants in 2025, founder Elon Musk said.' In an interview streamed on X.com, Musk says 'We've got now three humans with...
'Oracle has informed us they won't voluntarily withdraw their trademark on 'JavaScript'.' That's the word coming from the company behind Deno, the alternative JavaScript/TypeScript/WebAssembly runtime, which is pursuing a formal cancellation with the U.S. Patent and...
'We're standing down on today's launch attempt,' Blue Origin posted late last night, 'to troubleshoot a vehicle subsystem issue that will take us beyond our launch window. We're reviewing opportunities for our next launch attempt.' But soon Blue Origin will again attempt its ...
Blue Origin is attempting its very first orbital flight tonight. And they'll also attempt to land their reusable Stage 1 on a drone in the Atlantic ocean. The rocket is fueled on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, awaiting ignition. Its three-hour launch window has...
'In at least five of the 16 African countries where the service is available, a monthly Starlink subscription is cheaper than the leading fixed internet service provider,' reports Rest of World. 'Starlink, launched in 2019 by Elon Musk's SpaceX, has become the leading...
'I know, I know: 'Year of the Linux desktop... yadda, yadda',' writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, a ZDNet senior contributing editor. 'You've heard it all before. But now there's a Linux-powered PC that many people will want...' He's talking about Nvidia's newly-announced...
'The U.K is looking to build a homegrown challenger to OpenAI and drastically increase national computing infrastructure,' reports CNBC, 'as Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government sets its sights on becoming a global leader in artificial intelligence.' The government is...
Due to a 'rapid expansion of solar capacity,' Germany generated 72.2 TWh of solar power in 2024, reports PV magazine, 'accounting for 14% of its total electricity output, according to Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. 'Wind power remained Germany's...
Sunday January 12, 2025. 11:03 PM
The University of Colorado Boulder's magazine recently wrote: What happened during the 'Snowball Earth' period is perplexing: Just as the planet endured about 100 million years of deep freeze, with a thick layer of ice covering most of Earth and with low levels of...
SC Media reports on a new jailbreak method for large language models (LLMs) that 'takes advantage of models' ability to identify and score harmful content in order to trick the models into generating content related to malware, illegal activity, harassment and more. 'The...
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