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Intel's open source future in question as exec says he's done carrying the competition

Thu, 2025-10-09 13:05
Kevork Kechichian says x86 giant's contributions should benefit Intel first

Over the years, Intel has established itself as a paragon of the open source community, but that could soon change under the x86 giant's new leadership.  …

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Panther Lake sets stage for Intel's 2 nm comeback, but many details still TBD

Thu, 2025-10-09 13:00
Notebook chip promises 8 to16 cores and up to 180 TOPS of total AI performance when it hits shelves in January

Intel has begun clawing back production from TSMC with the introduction of its Panther Lake processors, the company's first chip based on its long-awaited 18A process tech.…

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SoftBank snaps up ABB's robotics biz for $5.4B to fuel 'physical AI' dreams

Thu, 2025-10-09 12:36
Japanese tech goliath gets grabby with industrial automation as ABB shelves spin-off plans

SoftBank Group has added more arms to its portfolio, this time of the robotic kind.…

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Nextcloud withdraws European Commission OneDrive bundling complaint

Thu, 2025-10-09 11:46
Blames 'lack of interest' from the EU policy enforcer for towel throwing

Nextcloud has withdrawn a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission over OneDrive bundling, citing a lack of progress with the governing body.…

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Hundreds of millions of business PCs are still on Windows 10 as D-Day nears

Thu, 2025-10-09 11:00
It's the end of support as we know it and users feel fine

With days to go before Microsoft finally pulls the plug on Windows 10 support, there are hundreds of millions of computers that have yet to upgrade to Windows 11, despite the best efforts of hardware manufacturers and the operating system's marketers.…

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Zero-day lets nation-state spies cross-examine elite US law firm Williams & Connolly

Thu, 2025-10-09 10:16
China-linked snoops crack email at DC powerhouse that represented Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Holmes

Washington's elite law firm Williams & Connolly has confirmed that attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability to access a handful of attorney email accounts in what it believes was a nation-state-linked cyberattack.…

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McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits

Thu, 2025-10-09 08:28
Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivity

Software vendors keen to monetize AI should tread cautiously, since they risk inflating costs for their customers without delivering any promised benefits such as reducing employee head count.…

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Hobble your AI agents to prevent them from hurting you too badly

Thu, 2025-10-09 07:27
That's the main takeaway from the Zenity AI Agent Security Summit

Michael Bargury, CTO of AI security company Zenity, welcomed attendees to the company's AI Agent Security Summit on Wednesday with an unexpected admission.…

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CoreWeave bets on serverless agent builder to woo penny-pinching enterprises

Wed, 2025-10-08 23:10
Because what enterprises really love are vague consumption-based pricing models

Rent-a-GPU outfit CoreWeave continued its push into the AI services arena on Wednesday with the introduction of a platform that aims to make reinforcement learning more accessible to enterprise customers.…

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3 more infamous cybercrime crews team up to 'maximize income' in 'challenging' ransomware biz

Wed, 2025-10-08 21:59
It's hard out there for a crim

Following in the footsteps of an earlier unholy alliance between three other cybercrime crews, ransomware-as-a-service giants DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit claim to be collaborating on ransomware attacks. …

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The price is wrong! California goes Bob Barker on algorithmic price rigging

Wed, 2025-10-08 21:16
When sellers collude through a computer algorithm, that doesn't make it right

California companies that use algorithms to fix the prices of their products and services could now face stiff antitrust penalties if they continue to do so. …

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Cisco’s new router unites disparate datacenters into AI training behemoths

Wed, 2025-10-08 20:29
With enough routers, Switchzilla says it can link bit barns 1,000 km apart and scale fabrics beyond 3 exabits per second

Cisco has unveiled a new routing ASIC designed to help bit barn operators overcome power and capacity constraints by stitching together their existing datacenters into a single unified compute cluster.…

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Mars’ powerful whirlwinds blow dust everywhere, could affect future missions

Wed, 2025-10-08 18:00
Keeping tabs on Martian dust devils with bonus data from ESA’s veteran orbiters

Mars is windier than thought, according to research into decades of data from European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, and that has implications for missions to the red planet.…

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AI gets more 'meh' as you get to know it better, researchers discover

Wed, 2025-10-08 17:53
Most scientists now use the tech in their work, but still question its usefulness

AI hype is colliding with reality yet again. Wiley's global survey of researchers finds more of them using the tech than ever, and fewer convinced it's up to the job.…

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Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort

Wed, 2025-10-08 17:20
CRM giant 'will not engage, negotiate with, or pay' the scumbags

Salesforce won't pay a ransom demand to criminals who claim to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records and are threatening to leak the data if the CRM giant doesn't pony up some cash.…

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Bank of England smells hint of dotcom bubble 2.0 in AI froth

Wed, 2025-10-08 17:03
UK central bank warns of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks

The Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee has warned of the dangers of a sudden correction in the financial markets, owing to the value of tech and AI stocks, and has compared the risks to the dotcom bubble.…

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IBM's big iron to get Spyre AI accelerator upgrade this month

Wed, 2025-10-08 16:09
Giving the mainframe customers what they want

IBM's Spyre Accelerator is set to be generally available later this month, delivering a boost to the AI capabilities of its enterprise-grade hardware including the z17 mainframe, LinuxONE 5, and Power11 systems.…

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Exchange Online will start archiving your oldest emails before your inbox bursts

Wed, 2025-10-08 15:30
Microsoft promises fewer 'mailbox full' errors in face of message deluge

Microsoft's latest attempt to make the dreaded "mailbox full" response a thing of the past is rolling out in October and November. Threshold-based auto-archiving is coming to Exchange Online.…

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IBM invites CockroachDB to infest its mainframes with PostgreSQL

Wed, 2025-10-08 13:48
Vendors promote bridge to modern architecture for legacy systems, but Db2 not going anywhere just yet

IBM has signed an OEM agreement with Cockroach Labs – maker of the distributed PostgreSQL-like cloud RDBMS CockroachDB – in a bid to help modernize mission-critical applications reliant on mainframe hardware.…

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Texas senators cry foul over Smithsonian's pricey Space Shuttle shuffle

Wed, 2025-10-08 13:27
Can be shifted for a tenth of the price AND the wings don't have to come off – allegedly

Texas senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz have hit back at a Smithsonian memo on relocating Space Shuttle Discovery, claiming the institute's cost estimates are "more than ten times higher" than quotes from private logistics firms.…

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