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Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend

Tue, 2026-05-05 22:38
Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks

There’s gold in midmarket IT spend, and Anthropic - backed by private equity and banking heavyweights and tapping its Claude Partner Network - is coming for it.…

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OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year

Tue, 2026-05-05 21:02
If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math

An executive for ChatGPT maker OpenAI said in court testimony on Tuesday that the AI model developer expects to burn $50 billion on computing power before the end of the year.…

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Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

Tue, 2026-05-05 20:31
GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them

A LinkedIn feature the average non-paying user likely only glances past could end up setting a legal precedent in the EU regarding how companies treat customer data that they've processed. …

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Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch

Tue, 2026-05-05 20:05
High-speed connectivity without NVLink baggage

Astera Labs unveiled an alternative to Nvidia's NVSwitch for building rack-scale AI systems on Tuesday, claiming it will work with nearly any accelerator.…

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Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents

Tue, 2026-05-05 19:44
Always bet on backpropagation

If you've ever read Anthropic's disclaimer that responses generated by Claude may contain mistakes and thought, "That's what I need to spice up financial operations," you're in luck.…

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IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf

Tue, 2026-05-05 17:29
With help from Google and Intel, Big Blue brings new automation to Db2

IBM has added support for Google Vertex AI and Intel Gaudi to boost the AI-based management of its stalwart Db2 database.…

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ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower

Tue, 2026-05-05 17:00
ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows

ServiceNow announced an expansion of its AI Control Tower, transforming what began last year as a governance dashboard into what the company now describes as a command center for managing AI assets across an entire enterprise, including those running outside ServiceNow's own platform.…

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DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to

Tue, 2026-05-05 16:46
A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not

Shortwave radio enthusiasts are sure to know the problem: You're trying to tune in to your favorite global broadcast only to find that the signal is fuzzy. Is it you? Your equipment? It might just be the conditions in the ionosphere, which you'd know if you built this DIY device. …

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Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw

Tue, 2026-05-05 15:01
Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long

CISA is warning that a newly-disclosed Linux kernel bug dubbed "CopyFail" is already being exploited, just days after researchers dropped a working root-level exploit.…

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More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook

Tue, 2026-05-05 14:33
Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time

OPINION NASA's budget and its new administrator's statements are evoking a ghost from the agency's past: Faster, better, cheaper.…

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Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked

Tue, 2026-05-05 14:08
Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future

Bun creator Jarred Sumner has posted a Zig-to-Rust porting guide, igniting speculation that the project may migrate away from Zig, though Sumner said there is no commitment to rewriting, only that he is "curious to see what a working version of this looks like."…

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Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking

Tue, 2026-05-05 13:34
Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats

Real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield has confirmed a data breach after two cybercrime groups, ShinyHunters and Qilin, separately claimed responsibility for attacks on the company.…

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SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition

Tue, 2026-05-05 13:20
ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration

SAP has snapped up Dremio, a data integration and analytics provider, to extend the reach of its data analytics and AI agent-building tools into external data sources.…

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VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination

Tue, 2026-05-05 13:01
Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock

VMware has announced an update to its flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud suite and tried to make it fit the times by adding features that allow users to run with less hardware.…

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ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild

Tue, 2026-05-05 12:15
Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched

More than 119,000 Vimeo users's email addresses were extracted in a breach traced to a third-party analytics vendor, according to Have I Been Pwned.…

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Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more

Tue, 2026-05-05 12:04
Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech

British mathematician Professor Hannah Fry has shared a cautionary experiment involving an AI agent, a set of tasks, and a bank card number Fry's team gave it "to show us what it could do."…

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Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday

Tue, 2026-05-05 11:43
Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories

Romance fraudsters scammed Britons out of £102 million ($138 million) last year, according to the latest police figures.…

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Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal

Tue, 2026-05-05 11:34
CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule

Vodafone has struck a deal to take full ownership of VodafoneThree, the mobile network formed from last year's merger of its British operations with Three, in a move designed to accelerate its UK ambitions.…

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Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area

Tue, 2026-05-05 10:00
Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags

Bork!Bork!Bork! Things must be tough for UK grocery retailer Sainsbury's, judging by the state of Windows Activation on one of its self-service kiosks.…

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NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns

Tue, 2026-05-05 09:15
Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is ordering all of its technology leaders to temporarily wall off the organization's open source projects over concerns relating to advanced AI and Anthropic's Mythos.…

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