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Meta's latest model is as open as Zuckerberg's private school - 9/04 7:06 am You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the proprietary models, not join them! Nearly two years after extolling the virtues of open source AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is singing a different tune. |
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Western Union zaps VMware and moves to Nutanix - 9/04 6:35 am South Koreas biggest theme park is also riding the VM migration roller coaster Western Union has commenced a migration from VMware to Nutanix after deciding it didnt want to do business with Broadcom. |
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Atlassian gussies up Confluence for the AI era - 9/04 6:02 am Helps employees present data in Confluence in various ways Atlassian is modernizing Confluence for the AI era, testing tools and agentic capabilities that give users the chance to turn their written notes into graphics and their ideas into software applications. |
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Criminal wannabes even more dangerous than the pros, says ex-FBI cyber .. - 9/04 5:09 am If they don't know what they're doing, you might never get your data back interview It's the biggest threat today, but it took her a while to appreciate it. After spending two decades at the FBI and much of that time working to intercept and stop cyber threats from the likes of China and Russia, Halcyon Ransomware Research Center SVP Cynthia Kaiser says she was a "latercomer to really wanting to focus on ransomware." |
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DARPA looking for battery that could power a laptop for months - 9/04 4:52 am Drawback: its radioactive Forget recharging or swapping out disposable AAs every day. What if you could power energy-hungry devices for months or even years at a time from a single, reasonably-sized battery? A Washington state- based fusion energy startup is helping to make that dream a reality for DARPA, which wants higher-power radioactive batteries for space. |
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Call your existing automation zero-token architecture to become an instant .. - 9/04 4:21 am Kubernetes luminary Kelsey Hightower thinks IT pros need to get smart about thriving in a world thats trying to hide deep tech As businesses drink the agentic AI Kool-Aid and go looking for productivity enhancements, IT professionals can deliver by rebranding their existing automations as zero- token architecture, according to Kelsey Hightower, a former Google distinguished engineer and a notable early promoter of Kubernetes. |
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Nvidia's Rubin GPU is likely to be late thanks to memory shortage and .. - 9/04 2:31 am China-bound Hopper accelerators are also likely to ship in smaller volumes than previously forecast, industry watchers say Nvidia's next-gen Rubin GPUs may end up shipping later and in smaller volumes than anticipated due to supply chain challenges, TrendForce warned on Wednesday. |
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RAF eyes cheap drone-killer as Typhoon jet tests laser-guided rockets - 9/04 1:58 am BAE says trials could offer cheaper way to counter uncrewed aerial threats BAE Systems has successfully tested a laser-guided rocket system with a Typhoon fighter jet from Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) as a potential anti-drone weapon. It follows earlier trials in the US with the F-15E Strike Eagle. |
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Talk ain't cheap: DARPA offers grants for new AI-to-AI communication .. - 9/04 12:59 am MATHBAC program wants better machine-to-machine chatter for scientific discovery To supercharge agents' ability to make scientific discoveries, DARPA is looking to improve cross-bot collaboration by developing a "science of AI communication" that will help the models work together to come up with better ideas. |
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Minnesota State payroll problems grew after Workday launch, auditors say - 9/04 12:55 am Sample testing found incorrect payments and delays after college system adopted new HR platform A Workday-based HR platform rollout at Minnesota State universities and colleges likely left more than a thousand faculty and staff with payroll errors. |
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Microsoft calls time on ASP.NET Core 2.3 on .NET Framework - 8/04 10:43 pm Tangled tale nears end as Redmond classifies it as a tool, not a library Microsoft has set an end-of-support date of April 7, 2027, for ASP.NET Core 2.3, the only supported version on .NET Framework, even though .NET Framework (and the original ASP.NET) will continue to be supported. |
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Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers - 8/04 10:28 pm To 'minimize disruption,' Bezoscorp offers a 20% discount on new hardware you didn't want Updated Amazon is rewarding long-time Kindle users by ditching support for aging devices, though it is trying to "minimize disruption" for existing customers by dangling a 20 percent discount for new models along with an eBook credit. |
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Supermicro launches probe after staff charged with China export violations - 8/04 10:15 pm Board-led inquiry follows indictment of two employees and a contractor over alleged diversion of Nvidia GPU servers Supermicro has launched an independent investigation after three people associated with the company were charged with violating US export restrictions on China. |
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Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do - 8/04 8:29 pm Fresh and healthy, just like Windows 11 isn't Bork!Bork!Bork! You might say this bork was bread to fail, but at least it involves a version of Windows that most people actually like. |
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Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack - 8/04 8:03 pm ChipSoft's website remains down but emails are functioning A Dutch healthcare software vendor has been knocked offline following a ransomware attack, officials say. |
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Investors are going nuclear to keep UK's AI datacenters fed - 8/04 7:21 pm Market watcher says money is pouring into British atomic and fusion startups amid massive energy demand Investors are backing nuclear power as a solution to fuel the UK's datacenter buildout, according to researchers tracking investment activity. |
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DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to 1B - 8/04 6:29 pm Supplier will support the current Oracle E-Business Suite and lead migration to a new Oracle Fusion SaaS platform The UK's largest police force has awarded DXC Technology a contract worth up to 1 billion to develop and run a host of business process outsourcing services including building a new Oracle ERP system. |
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NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams - 8/04 6:00 pm Two practice web addresses appear to have been compromised Multiple domains belonging to Scottish healthcare providers have been hijacked and are now pushing links to adult content and illegal sports streams, according to a researcher. |
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Virtual SG-41 project brings Nazi cipher machine to life in the browser - 8/04 5:15 pm Martin Gillow's 3D recreation lets users explore would-be Enigma successor's mechanics and enciphering logic online An enthusiast has built a digital 3D model of the SG-41 cipher machine, replete with wheels, levers, and stepping logic, accessible via a browser. |
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UK's grand plan to fuel AI with public data faces uphill battle - 8/04 4:30 pm Agents will look for info elsewhere unless official sources sharpen up The UK's hopes of fueling cutting-edge AI development and applications with a National Data Library (NDL) could be dashed unless it makes datasets easier to use. |
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Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones - 8/04 2:53 pm President Brad Smith tells an interviewer that Microsoft is reconsidering datacenter design in light of Iran war Microsoft is reevaluating how it designs and builds datacenters in conflict-prone regions after Iran began targeting Middle Eastern bit barns in retaliation for US military operations. |
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Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the easiest country to develop AI - 8/04 12:48 am Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoption Japans Minister for Digital Transformation Hisashi Matsumoto has declared the nation will become the easiest place in the world to develop AI apps, thanks to legal changes that mean organizations wont need to secure consent to use some personal information. |
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Anthropic: All your zero-days are belong to Mythos - 8/04 7:50 am Hasn't released it to the public, because it would break the internet - in a bad way For years, the infosec communitys biggest existential worry has been quantum computers blowing away all classical encryption and revealing the worlds secrets. Now they have a new Big Bad: an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities. |
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Iran cyber actors disrupting US water, energy facilities, FBI warns - 8/04 7:30 am Your PLCs aren't internet-connected, right? Right?! Iranian-affiliated actors have escalated intrusions targeting critical US water and energy facilities, in some cases disrupting operations, the FBI and American cyber defense agencies said on Tuesday. |
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Nutanix thinks some Azure cloud desktops belong on-prem to make them usable - 8/04 7:14 am Also asserts it can beat Cisco's homebrew hypervisor for calling apps .NEXT Nutanix has teamed with Microsoft to bring cloudy desktops on-prem, using its extensive desktop virtualization (VDI) experience to make it work. |
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Cloudflare, GoDaddy team up to curb AI bot brigades - 8/04 5:32 am Pair backs scraper blocking and standards to separate trusted agents from bad bots Citing the need to adapt to an internet increasingly serving the needs of AI agents without considering the needs of site owners, Cloudflare and GoDaddy are partnering on efforts to control how AIs crawl the web and interact with web content. |
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AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped - 8/04 5:21 am Matt Garman sounds the alarm but plays down the SaaS-pocalypse at Human[X] Stefan Weitz, CEO and co-founder of the Human[X] conference, welcomed attendees to the AI-focused bitshow in San Francisco with the promise that they would receive no certainty and no playbook. |
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Hundreds of orgs compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishing .. - 8/04 4:19 am Who needs MFA when you've got EvilTokens? Hundreds of organizations have been compromised daily by a Microsoft device-code phishing campaign that uses AI and automation at nearly every stage of the attack chain to ultimately snoop through corporate email inboxes and steal financial data. |
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Intel gets trapped in Elons reality distortion field as it joins in .. - 8/04 4:08 am Space is just the next stop on the AI hype train, right after AGI In the realm of his other unrealistic plans and potentially broken promises, Elon Musk's Terafab stands out as one of the biggest pipedreams, promising to boost semiconductor production by 50x for the benefit of orbital datacenters. But hey, this idea must have legs, because now Intel has announced it is joining the aspiring Bond villain's initiative. |
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Nutanix brings its K8s to bare metal because hardware matters again - 8/04 3:21 am Expands compatibility since it's tough to buy the boxes you want right now .NEXT Nutanix exists to abstract hardware into a pool of logical resources, leaving servers and storage forgotten by all but a few datacenter hardheads. But the company's annual .NEXT conference, which kicked off in Chicago on Tuesday, put hardware at the top of the agenda. |
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Shots fired literally over proposal to build datacenter in Indianapolis - 8/04 2:32 am From a gun into the front door of a councilor who supports plan Datacenter protests have taken an ugly turn in the US, with gunshots fired at the home of an Indianapolis councilor who recently lent his support to plans for a server farm in the area. |
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US cybercrime losses pass $20B for first time as AI boosts online fraud - 8/04 1:59 am Bots are now firmly in the toolbox, helping crooks scale old scams Crims are taking advantage of AI to sharpen old scams. The FBI reported Monday that cybercrime losses hit a record $20.87 billion in 2025, with help from bots. |
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Russia's Fancy Bear still attacking routers to boost fake sites, NCSC warns - 8/04 1:02 am 200 orgs and 5,000 devices compromised so far in Vlad's latest intelligence grab, Microsoft reckons The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a fresh warning about Russia's ongoing targeting of routers to steal passwords and other secrets. |
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Stack Overflow abandons redesign after loyalists criticize it - 8/04 12:26 am Fabled Q&A; site for devs struggles with its future as AI takes over its original purpose Stack Overflow, the once-popular dev community, has abandoned a planned redesign that was meant to refocus the site more on discussions than the question-and-answer format that built its reputation. |
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Artemis II snaps eclipse, Earthset shots on first crewed lunar flyby since .. - 7/04 11:53 pm Turns out deep space still looks better without AI helping The Artemis II mission has produced some stunning imagery as the spacecraft loops around the Moon on its journey from Earth and back. |
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Break, no fix: Apple and Samsung make repairs hard - 7/04 11:08 pm Motorola and Google top PIRG's latest scorecard Samsung and Apple phones are more difficult to repair than those from other makers, according to a report ranking devices by how easy to fix they are. |
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Only 28% of AI infrastructure projects fully pay off, survey finds - 7/04 9:13 pm ITSM the area most likely to offer wins, according to Gartner research Tech leaders hoping AI might help save money and improve efficiency in IT infrastructure should know that only 28 percent of use cases fully succeed and offer return on investment (ROI). |
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White House seeks deep NASA cuts as Artemis II breaks spaceflight record - 7/04 8:27 pm 'Proposal resurrects an existential threat to US leadership in space science and exploration' First, the good news: the Artemis II crew has successfully swung around the far side of the Moon and surpassed Apollo 13's record for the farthest distance traveled by humans in space. Now the bad news: the White House is sharpening the budget blade once again. |
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No-Nvidia interconnect club delivers 2.0 spec before v1.0 silicon ships - 7/04 8:00 pm UALink splits work on physical layer and protocol specs to speed things up, literally and metaphorically The UALink Consortium, a group of tech giants working on GPU networking standards to provide an alternative to Nvidia's NVLink and NVSwitch, has released new specs, but is still months away from shipping silicon. |
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OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech .. - 7/04 6:27 pm Geopolitics enter the room as Thierry Carrez shows that there's more to Kubecon than AI Kubecon Sovereignty was a big topic was at last week's Kubecon, and Thierry Carrez, the General Manager of the OpenInfra Foundation, shared strong feelings around it that included raising the idea that tech companies might be forced by their countries' governments to deploy "kill switches." |
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