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Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028
Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028
Microsoft will stop offering long-term rentals for 17 Azure instance types – most of them powered by CPUs Intel released in the 2010s – again showing that cloud computing isn’t always a seamless and easy choice.…
Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation
Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation
Academics from Singapore and China have found a way to make AI useful for cyber-defenders, by creating a technique that translates rules from diverse Security Information and Event Managements (SIEMs) so they’re easier to consume across multiple systems.…
Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'
The Iran War has been great for business at Palantir, as the Department of Defense has doubled usage of the company’s Maven targeting system in four months.…
Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799
Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799
The Mac Mini is the latest victim of the AI-fueled RAM-pocalypse. Last week, Apple discontinued the 256 GB version of the system, which cost $599. To get in now, you'll need to drop at least $799 on a 512 GB version.…
Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work
Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work
Imagine working your butt off on a project, only to have VS Code put an attribution into your commit that says Copilot helped you, even if it did not. Microsoft has reversed a change that added a default AI attribution notice after user complaints that the bot was claiming credit for human-authored code.…
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In some cases, even drawing on a mustache has been reported as enough to fool age detection software.…
Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop
Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop
We've all been there: You're doing maintenance on a Weyland-Yutani hauler dragging mineral ore back toward Earth, and there’s no terminal handy to tap into the MU/TH/UR AI to check ship systems. Lucky for you, one enterprising maker has created just the machine for the job.…
Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port
Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port
Notepad++ remains a Windows-only app, at least under that name. The beloved developer-focused, open-source text editor recently was ported to macOS by a third party. However, developer Don Ho wants to be perfectly clear that, no matter how convincing the new project might look, it's not official. …
Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear
Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear
FEATURE In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inconspicuous.…
Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs
Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs
When it comes to securing enterprise supply chains, now heavily infused with AI applications and agents, a software bill of materials (SBOM) no longer provides a complete inventory of all the components in the environment. Enter AI-BOMs.…
