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Global IT spending forecast to reach $5.06 trillion this year
Gartner expects global IT spending to grow 8 percent in 2024 to $5.06 trillion in a revised forecast from the 6.8 percent uptick which the analyst predicted in January.…
Google will pump more than $100B into AI, says DeepMind boss
Google will eventually invest $100 billion in AI, according to DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.…
Japanese government rejects Yahoo<i>!</i> infosec improvement plan
Japan's government has considered the proposed security improvements developed by Yahoo!, found them wanting, and ordered the onetime web giant to take new measures.…
Tencent Cloud to revisit design after circular dependencies slowed emergency API fix
Tencent Cloud has apologized for an outage that impacted customers last week – an unusual act by a Chinese cloud – and signalled it will review some aspects of its ops in the hope of avoiding future incidents of this nature.…
Indian PM's 25-year roadmap laid out with help from AI
India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, used AI to help develop the nation's 25-year development roadmap, according to comments made during a live-streamed interview with news agency ANI on Monday.…
RISC-V AI chip upstart Rivos plans to undercut Nvidia, helped by a quarter-billion in VC lucre
RISC-V chip designer Rivos has raised $250 million in series-A funding to bankroll production of its first accelerator for generative AI and data analytics workloads.…
Fire in the Cisco! Networking giant's Duo MFA message logs stolen in phish attack
Cisco is fighting fires on a couple cybersecurity fronts this week involving its Duo multi-factor authentication (MFA) service and its remote-access VPN services.…
FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all on sale for a price
Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove.…
MGM says FTC can't possibly probe its ransomware downfall – watchdog chief Lina Khan was a guest at the time
MGM Resorts wants the FTC to halt a probe into last year's ransomware infection at the mega casino chain – because the watchdog's boss Lina Khan was a guest at one of its hotels during the cyberattack, apparently.…
YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids
YouTube says it will intentionally cripple the playback of its videos in third-party apps that block its ads.…
China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip
Analysis Researchers in China have reportedly demonstrated how a low-cost Nvidia Jetson module could theoretically be used to direct a hypersonic weapon.…
Gentoo Linux tells AI-generated code contributions to fork off
AI-generated and assisted code contributions are no longer allowed in the Gentoo Linux distribution.…
Latest AMD Ryzen Pro chips are similar silicon, more smarts
AMD has brought its 4 nm Hawk Point and Phoenix APUs to business users in the form of the Ryzen Pro 8040 series for laptops and Ryzen Pro 8000 series for desktops.…
Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig
Linux kernel supremo Linus Torvalds has made the use of indentation in kernel config files more ambiguous – intentionally to weed out inferior parsers.…
Judge refuses to Ctrl-Z divorce order made by a misclick
A simple misclick at a London law firm led to a surprise divorce for an unsuspecting couple.…
Alleged cryptojacker accused of stealing $3.5M from cloud to mine under $1M in crypto
A Nebraska man will appear in court today to face charges related to allegations that he defrauded cloud service providers of more than $3.5 million in a long-running cryptojacking scheme.…
Microsoft to tackle spam by restricting Exchange Online bulk email
For the first time, Microsoft will apply daily restrictions to Exchange Online in an effort to staunch the flow of spam from the service.…
SIM swap crooks solicit T-Mobile US, Verizon staff via text to do their dirty work
T-Mobile US employees say they are being sent text messages that offer them cash to perform illegal SIM swaps for supposed criminals.…
US Equal Employment agency says Workday AI hiring bias case should continue
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says a claim against Workday should be allowed to continue, arguing the HR and finance software vendor may qualify as an employment agency because of the way its AI tool screens applicants.…
NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack
NASA has confirmed that a piece of space junk that crashed through a Florida home in March was a fragment of a discarded ISS battery pallet.…