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Snowflake jumps on agentic AI train with Anthropic tie-up
Anthropic and Snowflake announced a deal that will allow the deployment of AI agents capable of complex, multi-step analysis inside Snowflake's governed data environments.…
Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job
If you didn't get your dream job, you might be able to blame your internet provider. Technical glitches on video calls in healthcare, job interviews, and parole hearings can affect real-world decisions, a study has found. The researchers suggest new technologies may even be making the problem worse.…
EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform
The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe into Meta after WhatsApp rewrote its rules to block rival AI chatbots including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot.…
Palantir wants to set the juice loose with new AI power initiative
Palantir has always been a company marked by ambition, and it's embarking on what might be its most ambitious project yet with Chain Reaction, a new multi-industry, AI-powered software suite designed to eliminate energy bottlenecks for datacenters.…
Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse
Microsoft has quietly closed off a critical Windows shortcut file bug long abused by espionage and cybercrime networks.…
Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits
Microsoft has admitted that it might have broken Windows components including the Start menu and Explorer in the latest round of updates.…
Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL
Logitech's CEO says that AI-powered devices are a solution looking for a problem, despite being a strong proponent of AI and her firm pushing out exactly the kind of thing she's talking about.…
Aisuru botnet turns Q3 into a terabit-scale stress test for the entire internet
The internet has spent the past three months ducking for cover as the Aisuru botnet hurled record-shattering DDoS barrages from an army of up to 4 million infected machines.…
Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power
New datacenters planned in Scotland would collectively require 75 percent as much energy as the entire country currently consumes, according to tech campaign group Foxglove.…
UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze
UK SAP users say licensing and pricing complexity is muddying the picture for Business Suite, the vendor's new model for cloud applications.…
Xero to start charging developers API usage fees, replacing revenue share deals
Exclusive SaaS-y accounting outfit Xero has advised developers who integrate their products with its services that they’ll soon have to pay for the privilege in a new way.…
Datacenters that don't have their own power supplies will fail: Gartner
Availability of energy will determine the prices charged by datacenter operators, who won’t be viable unless they generate some of their own juice.…
TLS 1.3 includes welcome improvements, but still allows long-lived secrets
Systems Approach As we neared the finish line for our network security book, I received a piece of feedback from Brad Karp that my explanation of forward secrecy in the chapter on TLS (Transport Layer Security) was not quite right.…
Rust core library partly polished for industrial safety spec
Memory-safe Rust code can now be more broadly applied in devices that require electronic system safety, at least as measured by International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards.…
India's government targets Uber, Ola with plan to launch zero-commission rideshare platform
India’s government is set to launch a rideshare platform and app that charges no commission and is intended to make life harder for Uber and its ilk.…
Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches
The lure of AI spending was too much for Micron to ignore. On Wednesday, the US chipmaker announced it's abandoning its Crucial memory and storage lineup to bolster its supply of enterprise-focused chips, including those used in AI systems.…
John Henry still leading the race vs. AI in customer service
The world’s smallest digital violin is playing for AI chatbots, which are having a hard time elbowing out their human counterparts for jobs in customer service, according to a Gartner study.…
Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator
You don't have to be smarter than a fifth grader (or even a first grader) to commit potential copyright infringement using AI tools. One IP attorney watched over the weekend as his young son built a bedtime story generator that used copyrighted characters without permission. …
'Exploitation is imminent' as 39 percent of cloud environs have max-severity React hole
A maximum-severity flaw in the widely used JavaScript library React, and several React-based frameworks including Next.js allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable instances. The flaw is easy to abuse, and mass exploitation is "imminent," according to security researchers.…
MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers
A group of conservatives allied with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement, including former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, has asked the Justice Department and the White House to stop protecting Big Tech against copyright claims.…

