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What is GitHub Copilot Enterprise? You and your org just might find out firsthand

Tue, 2024-02-27 20:46
Big biz invited to like and subscribe, without fear of litigation

GitHub on Tuesday made Copilot Enterprise generally available, hoping to sell corporate developers on automated coding assistance.…

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Sandvine put on America's export no-fly list after Egypt used network tech for spying

Tue, 2024-02-27 20:22
Canadian network box maker floats in denial

The US Commerce Department has blacklisted Sandvine for selling its networking monitoring technology to Egypt, where the Feds say the gear was used to spy on political and human-rights activists.…

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NIST updates Cybersecurity Framework after a decade of lessons

Tue, 2024-02-27 18:45
The original was definitely getting a bit long in the tooth for modern challenges

After ten years operating under the original model, and two years working to revise it, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released version 2.0 of its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF).…

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Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after landing on its side

Tue, 2024-02-27 18:00
Controllers estimate 10-20 hours remain for Intuitive Machines lander

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lunar lander is facing another countdown. This time the question is how much longer it can continue to operate until it exhausts what remains of the battery life.…

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Intel urges businesses to undergo AI PC facelift with vPro update

Tue, 2024-02-27 17:16
You know you want to throw out that Windows 10 fleet

Intel would really like businesses to buy some new PCs, and is unveiling its latest vPro platform with an exhortation for them to refresh their fleet now in order to be "AI ready."…

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FAA gives SpaceX a bunch of homework to do before Starship flies again

Tue, 2024-02-27 16:15
You've heard of Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. How about an energetic engine failure?

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has closed its investigation into the case of another exploding SpaceX rocket with a list of corrective actions to be implemented before Starship can fly again.…

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Boffins caution against allowing robots to run on AI models

Tue, 2024-02-27 15:30
Before building the Torment Nexus, consider the risks

Computer scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD) have asked robot makers to do further safety research before wiring language and vision models to their hardware.…

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Apple Vision Pro rentals take China by storm ahead of official release

Tue, 2024-02-27 14:45
Factoring in the deposit, you'd be better off running away with it

Apple is a big deal in China. Despite competition from four homegrown smartphone vendors, the iPhone comes top with a 17.3 percent market share, with Honor closely behind at 17.1 percent, according to IDC.…

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Microsoft's February Windows 11 security update unravels at 96% for some users

Tue, 2024-02-27 14:02
Was your Patch Tuesday followed by a Rollback Wednesday? You're not alone

Microsoft says that February 13's security update for Windows 11 might "face installation issues."…

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40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud

Tue, 2024-02-27 13:15
Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred

Airline reservation technology biz Sabre Corporation has almost completed a mammoth migration to Google Cloud - one that would have tested the nerves of the most steely-eyed IT director.…

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Capita wins uncontested extension to mega millions Northern Ireland Education contract

Tue, 2024-02-27 12:30
Latest £33M awarded without competition in 11+ years contract that's now worth well over half a billion

Northern Ireland's Education Authority has awarded UK tech outsourcer Capita a managed services contract extension worth £33 million ($41.8 million) without external competition.…

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ESA's ERS-2 satellite began to come apart earlier than predicted

Tue, 2024-02-27 11:45
Harmlessly entered over the North Pacific, but solar array was already bent

The European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite has re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. While no damage to property was reported, some impressive shots were taken of the spacecraft starting to buckle as it approached re-entry.…

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Miracle WM, a new tiling window manager built on Mir

Tue, 2024-02-27 11:00
Try preliminary version of a new environment in a snap

Version 0.1.0 of Miracle-wm is very incomplete still, yet shows that interesting stuff is happening on the back of Canonical's Mir display server.…

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HPE boss Neri bags 15% pay hike in 2023 as targets ticked

Tue, 2024-02-27 10:15
CEO-to-grunt pay ratio now 300:1 as wider workforce gets 4.4% more than year earlier

HPE chief Antonio Neri was awarded $20.06 million in compensation for the company's last financial year, according to a proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.…

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Cybercrims: When we hit IT, they sometimes pay, but when we hit OT... jackpot

Tue, 2024-02-27 09:30
Or so says opsec firm, which confirms 70% of all industrial org ransomware in 2023 targeted manufacturers

Analysis Cybercriminals follow the money, and increasingly last year that led them to ransomware attacks against the manufacturing industry.…

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Meta to build election operations center in Europe to inspect AI content

Tue, 2024-02-27 08:30
Fact-checkers will label AI-generated media for upcoming EU elections

Meta is launching an "EU-specific Elections Operations Center" to tackle AI-generated misinformation and political advertising to prepare for upcoming parliament elections.…

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Broadcom builds a better SASE out of VMware VeloCloud and Symantec

Tue, 2024-02-27 07:28
First integration across properties, as end user compute division readies to leave home

Broadcom has delivered on its 2023 teaser of integration between VMware's SD-WAN and Symantec's Security Service Edge, by today debuting the "VMware VeloCloud SASE, Secured by Symantec" at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.…

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Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns

Tue, 2024-02-27 06:30
Machine learning will make everyone a programmer, so best become an expert in something else

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes AI has advanced to the point at which it's no longer necessary to prioritize computer science and coding education for the world's youth.…

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'How do I reset my router' isn't in LLM corpuses. An alliance of telcos wants to change that

Tue, 2024-02-27 05:33
Customer service data from five top telcos across Asia, Europe, and UAE will feed a carrier-centric multi-lingual chatbots

A joint venture comprising carriers SoftBank, Singtel, SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and e& Group plans to develop a large language model (LLM) they will use to automate customer service for the telco sector.…

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Japan's SLIM unexpectedly wakes up on Moon after month-long nap

Tue, 2024-02-27 04:48
How's that for resilient?

Against almost astronomical odds, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has reestablished communication with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).…

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