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Cryptocurrency laundryman gets hung out to dry
The operator of the world's longest-running Bitcoin money laundering service faces a 50-year prison sentence after being found guilty in a US court.…
Microsoft Copilot for Security prepares for April liftoff
Microsoft Copilot for Security, a subscription AI security service, will be generally available on April 1, 2024, the company announced on Wednesday.…
European Union lawmakers line up to defend world's first AI Act
The European Parliament has enacted the world's first legislation designed specifically to address the risk of artificial intelligence, including biometric categorization and manipulation of human behavior, as well as stricter rules for the introduction of generative AI.…
'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city
A cat covered in toxic chemicals is wandering the streets of Fukuyama in Japan, and locals are being warned not to go near.…
New York Times: OpenAI’s claim we 'hacked' its products both 'irrelevant' and 'false'
The New York Times has fired back another legal salvo at OpenAI after the ChatGPT maker accused it of manipulating the chatbot to regurgitate the media group's content.…
Pentagon said to have pulled $2.5B Intel defense chips grant
The Pentagon has reportedly declined to grant $2.5 billion to Intel for the production of defense-related semiconductors, which could leave the Department of Commerce to foot the entire bill.…
The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?
Analysts have warned that some enterprises have a mountain to climb ahead of Microsoft's planned phase-out of the classic Outlook for Windows. 2029 is the earliest cut-off date for support, but some key functionality is still missing from the veteran app's replacement.…
Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips
Cerebras revealed its latest dinner-plate sized AI chip on Wednesday, which it claims offers twice the performance per watt of its predecessor, alongside a collaboration with Qualcomm aimed at accelerating machine learning inferencing.…
Oracle AI buzz means Larry Ellison's worth $15B more today
Larry Ellison's personal wealth is inextricably linked to Oracle and yesterday it ballooned by more than $15 billion following a 12 percent rally of Big Red's stock on the news that it is building an AI datacenter and has a deal with AI darling Nvidia.…
Stanford University failed to detect ransomware intruders for 4 months
Stanford University says the cybersecurity incident it dealt with last year was indeed ransomware, which it failed to spot for more than four months.…
Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so
AI could be the mechanism to shorten notebook replacement cycles, according to the chief financial officer at Dell.…
Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs
A local software subsidy scheme launched by UK PM Rishi Sunak, designed to help struggling small businesses following the pandemic, has spent less than seven percent of its £300 million budget.…
Fedora 41's GNOME to go Wayland-only, says goodbye to X.org
The Fedora development team is discussing dropping the GNOME on X11 session in Fedora 41, meaning that the flagship edition will be Wayland-only.…
Researchers jimmy OpenAI's and Google's closed models
Boffins have managed to pry open closed AI services from OpenAI and Google with an attack that recovers an otherwise hidden portion of transformer models.…
Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine - so it's already an AI PC
What is it that makes a PC an AI PC? Beyond some vague hand-waving at the presence "neural processing units" and other features only available on the latest-and-greatest silicon, no-one has come up with a definition beyond an attempt to market some FOMO.…
Japan's first private satellite launch imitates SpaceX's giant explosions
Video On another bad day for Japan's space industry, the nation's first private satellite launch failed within seconds of launch.…
Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi adds electric vehicle to its mobility offerings
The electric vehicle subsidiary of Chinese consumer electronics brand Xiaomi on Tuesday announced its first product – the Speed Ultra 7 (SU7) sedan – will be ready for deliveries this month.…
South Korea cracks down on offshore e-commerce, with seeming focus on China
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission has announced a raft of measures aimed at ensuring offshore e-commerce services meet their service and support obligations. And it looks to be aimed squarely at Chinese retailers.…
Dirty data shocks Indian taxpayers with huge bills
India's income tax collection efforts hit a snag this week when it was found that an automated data feed somehow added an extra two zeroes to the value of taxable transactions, resulting in the issuance of notices to individuals that wrongly overstated their tax liabilities.…
GitHub fixes pull request delay that derailed developers
GitHub is experiencing a second day of degraded performance, following a bad update that threw the code locker into chaos.…