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Brit AI boffins making bank with £560K average pay packet at Anthropic

59 min 51 sec ago
Google, DeepMind, Microsoft also shower UK staff with six-figure salaries

The UK units of some US technology companies are paying average salaries of well into six figures, with some more than matching that with share-based payments, according to annual accounts recently published by Companies House.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken

1 hour 44 min ago
Canonical's Questing Quokka waddles in at 5.7 GB with AppArmor woes

The latest interim release of Ubuntu is here, showcasing some significant changes. This isn't a long-term release, yet many of its differences will be in 26.04 next year.…

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Unwary SAP private cloud users face 10% renewal hikes, warns Gartner

2 hours 30 min ago
On-prem discounts drying up as ERP giant sends 'mixed signals' on pricing

Gartner has reported that SAP customers opting for private cloud have seen price increases of 10 percent or more on renewal proposals if they fail to negotiate a renewal price cap in the original deal.…

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EU biometric border system launches, suffers teeting problems

3 hours 14 min ago
Malfunctioning equipment and manual processing cause 90-minute waits

The European Union's new biometric Exit/Entry System (EES) got off to a chaotic start at Prague's international airport, with travelers facing lengthy queues and malfunctioning equipment forcing border staff to process arrivals manually.…

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Nvidia's GB10 workstations arrive with 1 petaFLOPS of compute, 128GB of VRAM, and a $3K+ price tag

Mon, 2025-10-13 23:53
Systems from Nvidia, Dell, and others available starting Oct. 15

Nvidia's tiniest Grace-Blackwell workstation is finally making its way to store shelves this week, the better part of a year after the GPU giant first teased the AI mini PC, then called Project Digits, at CES.…

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Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily

Mon, 2025-10-13 17:48
Then shalt thee change the setting three times, no more!

Microsoft's OneDrive is increasing the creepiness quotient by using AI to spot faces in photos and group images accordingly. Don't worry, it can be turned off – three times a year.…

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Bose kills SoundTouch: Smart speakers go dumb in Feb

Mon, 2025-10-13 17:18
Cloud support to be ditched on older hardware, customers left with pricey paperweights

Audio equipment biz Bose is discontinuing cloud support for its SoundTouch product line, effectively reducing the premium devices to basic speakers with limited functionality.…

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Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers

Mon, 2025-10-13 16:49
Outage knocks out phones, broadband – even telco's own status page

Vodafone fell over in the UK this afternoon, with Register readers reporting that many services including mobile coverage, internet services, and even the company's own status page went down.…

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Broadcom cozies up to OpenAI for 10 GW custom chip love-in

Mon, 2025-10-13 16:29
Every human deserves their own accelerator, says ChatGPT creator

Broadcom has cuddled up with OpenAI as the ChatGPT outfit looks for ever more help building out the vast infrastructure it needs to deliver on its dreams of advanced intelligence – and possibly even a profit some day.…

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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters rage-quit the internet (again), promise to return next year

Mon, 2025-10-13 16:17
'We will never stop,' say crooks, despite retiring twice in the space of a month

The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective - compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings - announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI's seizure of its clearweb site.…

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Bun 1.3 stuffs everything and kitchen sink into JS runtime

Mon, 2025-10-13 15:17
All-in-one toolkit or over-ambitious feature creep? You decide

Version 1.3 of the Bun JavaScript runtime and toolkit has landed, pushing forward the project's goal to consolidate fragmented JavaScript toolchains into a single solution. Yet the rapid expansion has some developers questioning whether Bun is trying to do too much, too fast.…

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Benioff retreats from idea of sending troops in to clean up San Francisco

Mon, 2025-10-13 14:36
Salesforce CEO praises Trump before walking back criticism of city's policing

San Francisco’s political establishment rounded on Marc Benioff over the weekend after the Salesforce founder backed the idea of sending in the National Guard to clean up the city’s streets.…

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Android 'Pixnapping' attack can capture app data like 2FA codes

Mon, 2025-10-13 14:00
GPU-based timing attack inspired by decade-old iframe technique

Security researchers have resurrected a 12-year-old data-stealing attack on web browsers to pilfer sensitive info from Android devices.…

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Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog

Mon, 2025-10-13 13:38
Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR

An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country's data protection regulator ruled the software giant "illegally" tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data.…

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SpaceX limbers up for Starship flight 11 as launch pad faces retirement

Mon, 2025-10-13 13:31
Another flawless demonstration or unplanned explosion await

SpaceX is counting down to today's 11th flight test of its monster Starship rocket, with weather looking suitable for the opening of the launch window at 18:15 CT (or around 17:00 CT, if the company's billionaire boss is to be believed).…

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Datacenter water use? California governor says don't ask, don't tell

Mon, 2025-10-13 13:07
Bid for transparency on consumption evaporates with Newsom veto

California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation requiring data centers to disclose their water consumption, even as he champions efforts to address the state's water scarcity challenges.…

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China probes Qualcomm's Autotalks deal amid rising US trade tensions

Mon, 2025-10-13 12:21
Beijing insists it's business as usual – Washington might see it differently

China's competition regulator has launched an investigation into Qualcomm's purchase of Israeli firm Autotalks, the latest salvo in the escalating tech trade war between Washington and Beijing.…

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End of Windows 10 support is the perfect time for the Windows 11 installer to fail

Mon, 2025-10-13 12:13
Microsoft admits its media creation tool 'might not work as expected'

Microsoft has broken its own Windows 11 media creation tool just as millions of users face a deadline to abandon Windows 10 — and with less than 24 hours until support officially ends.…

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Fujitsu pumps £280M into UK arm to keep lights on after Horizon scandal

Mon, 2025-10-13 11:32
Parent firm's cash keeps division afloat as Post Office inquiry nears final report

Fujitsu's UK business has received £280 million ($374 million) in equity from its Japanese owner in the last two years to meet ongoing funding and capital requirements.…

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Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK's Online Safety Act doesn't exist

Mon, 2025-10-13 11:10
Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperwork

Ofcom, the UK's Online Safety Act regulator, has fined online message board 4chan £20,000 ($26,680) for failing to protect children from harmful content.…

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