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Hyundai picks Palantir to help it build automated navy ships

Mon, 2024-04-15 05:01
Reconaissance vessels first, then set a course for armed drones

South Korean industrial giant HD Hyundai's maritime arm announced on Sunday it will collaborate with controversial software developer Palantir Technologies to develop an unmanned surface vessel (USV) that can conduct reconnaissance for the world's navies.…

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Salesforce apparently poised to slurp data management outfit Informatica

Mon, 2024-04-15 03:33
Investors get excited about using AI to make AI easier

Supercolossal SaaS seller Salesforce is reportedly poised to acquire cloud data management outfit Informatica.…

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US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all

Mon, 2024-04-15 01:58
PLUS: Chinese chipmaker Nexperia attacked; A Microsoft-signed backdoor; CISA starts scanning your malware; and more

Infosec in brief US Congress nearly killed a reauthorization of FISA Section 702 last week over concerns that it would continue to allow warrantless surveillance of Americans, but an amendment to require a warrant failed to pass.…

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Australian operation of web host BlueVPS laid low by storage failure

Mon, 2024-04-15 00:44
PLUS: AWS expands India payment options; Alibaba co-founders unite in criticism; Korea invests in AI; and more

Asia In Brief The Australian operations of Estonian cloud and web hosting outfit BlueVPS have been struck by a multi-day outage that commenced on or about April 9 and is ongoing at the time of writing.…

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Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy

Sun, 2024-04-14 18:26
Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders

Interview While the likes of OpenAI and Google DeepMind chase after some fabled artificial general intelligence, not everyone thinks that's the best use of our time and energy in developing AI.…

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How to coax ChatGPT into making better predictions: Get it to tell tales from the future

Sun, 2024-04-14 15:58
'Something is stopping it, even though it clearly can do it'

AI models become better at foretelling the future when asked to frame the prediction as a story about the past, boffins at Baylor University have found.…

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AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality

Sat, 2024-04-13 19:08
'Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content'

interview We know Google search results are being hammered the proliferation of AI garbage, and the web giant's attempts to curb the growth of machine-generated drivel haven't helped all that much.…

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China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027

Sat, 2024-04-13 13:06
There's no Huawei we saw that coming

Years after Uncle Sam ordered US telecommunications providers to rip and replace Huawei kit from their networks, Beijing is telling telcos in China to strip out American-made chips.…

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75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively

Sat, 2024-04-13 10:30
Dev teams must beware inflated expectations of tech leadership, Gartner warns

Global tech research company Gartner estimates that by 2028, 75 percent of enterprise software engineers will use AI code assistants, up from less than 10 percent in early 2023.…

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Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs

Sat, 2024-04-13 07:30
Slow but bona fide made in China

Loongson's current-generation 3A6000 processor, one of the fastest designed and made in China for consumers, is now available in a line of mini PCs.…

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Intel preps export-friendly lower-power Gaudi 3 AI chips for China

Fri, 2024-04-12 23:27
Beijing will be thrilled by this nerfed silicon

Intel is set to launch two China-exclusive models of its Gaudi 3 AI accelerator, and they'll be substantially crippled to fit in with US sanctions.…

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Zero-day exploited right now in Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect gateways

Fri, 2024-04-12 22:43
Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes

Palo Alto Networks on Friday issued a critical alert for an under-attack vulnerability in the PAN-OS software used in its firewall-slash-VPN products.…

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Google One VPN axed for everyone but Pixel loyalists ... for now

Fri, 2024-04-12 20:21
Another one bytes the dust

In an incredibly rare move, Google is killing off one of its online services – this time, VPN for Google One.…

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Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs

Fri, 2024-04-12 19:30
That 30% app tax may turn out to be a hefty liability

Apple's attempt to get the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) to toss a lawsuit over its 30 percent App Store tax has failed, meaning the iMaker could eventually be forced to fork over £785 million ($980 million) in compensation to developers.…

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Adobe will fork over cash for clips to train text-to-video AI

Fri, 2024-04-12 18:34
Not touching copyrighted material with a barge pole

Adobe is building its own AI model capable of transforming text into video and, unlike other companies, will actually pay creators of the material used to train it.…

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OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with root disk encryption and syscall limitations

Fri, 2024-04-12 16:37
The most secure Unix-like OS to date?

The OpenBSD project's 56th release is arguably the most secure Unix-like OS to date.…

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Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says

Fri, 2024-04-12 15:30
Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect

Amazon's search results have become less likely to favor the company's own products, according to research from a University of Minnesota economist.…

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Microsoft breach allowed Russian spies to steal emails from US government

Fri, 2024-04-12 14:37
Affected federal agencies must comb through mails, reset API keys and passwords

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that Russian spies who gained access to Microsoft's email system were able to steal sensitive data, including authentication details and that immediate remedial action is required by affected agencies.…

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Microsoft gives Hyper-V ceilings a Herculean hike

Fri, 2024-04-12 13:27
Windows Server 2025 will let you run a VM with 2,048 vCPUs, 240 TB RAM, and 68 network adapters

Microsoft has announced new scalability ceilings for its Hyper-V hypervisor.…

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IT biz trials gadget deliveries by drone to sidestep traffic and emissions

Fri, 2024-04-12 12:32
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a hard drive!

A UK IT maintenance outfit is testing out drones to deliver equipment to customers, claiming this will help with sustainability measures of all things.…

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