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IBM touts progress on tech stack for AI-enabled airline with no passengers or alcohol
IBM and Riyadh Air have upgraded their contracted agreement, meaning the Saudi operation will not be the world's first digitally native airline, but will instead be the first AI native operator.…
Care leavers mired in red tape trying to get their own records
UK public sector organizations need to improve access for those who want to see their own records of growing up in care, the Information Commissioner says.…
UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act
Portugal has become the latest country to carve out protections for researchers under its cybersecurity law.…
Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won't say what it will cost
The head of the department delivering the UK government's digital identity scheme has rejected the £1.8 billion cost forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), but is not willing to provide an alternative until after a delayed consultation on the plans.…
Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks
Researchers at security software vendor Huntress say they’ve noticed a huge increase in ransomware attacks on hypervisors and urged users to ensure they’re as secure as can be and properly backed up.…
Intel to explore making chips with mega-corp Tata in India’s first fab
Intel will explore manufacturing some chips in India’s first fab after forming an alliance with Indian mega-corp Tata.…
Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut
US President Donald Trump has signalled he will allow Nvidia to resume sales of its H200 accelerators to China.…
Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix
Google plans to add a second Gemini-based model to Chrome to address the security problems created by adding the first Gemini model to Chrome.…
Bezos-backed Unconventional AI aims to make datacenter power problems go away
Interview Naveen Rao founded AI businesses and sold them to Intel and Databricks. He’s now turned his attention to satisfying AI's thirst for power and believes his new company, Unconventional AI, can do it by building chips inspired by nature.…
Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level
A growing number of websites are taking steps to ban AI bot traffic so that their work isn't used as training data and their servers aren't overwhelmed by non-human users. However, some companies are ignoring the bans and scraping anyway.…
DJ Garman drops the ball instead of the bass in AWS re:Invent keynote
AWS CEO Matt Garman's annual re:Invent keynote was the best kind of keynote, in that you could have slept in for nearly all of it and still been thrilled to pieces, provided you caught the last ten minutes. He concluded what was otherwise an AI-palooza chock full of boring guest speakers with an Andy Jassy style "twenty-five releases in ten minutes," complete with a basketball-style ten-minute shot clock counting down the time.…
Meta and Google turn to NextEra to feed insatiable datacenter power hunger
NextEra Energy on Monday tightened its grip on hyperscaler power demand, adding 2.5 GW of new renewable projects for Meta while deepening its partnership with Google, which already covers about 3.5 GW of capacity.…
ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software
Does the first amendment allow citizens to track law enforcement activity? After publishing an iOS app that shows where ICE agents have deployed, ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron saw the Trump admin pressure Apple into pulling the software and threaten him with prosecution. Now he's fighting back.…
193 cybercrims arrested, accused of plotting 'violence-as-a-service'
Nearly 200 people, including minors accused of involvement in murder plots, have been arrested over the last six months as part of Europol's Operational Taskforce (OTF) GRIMM. The operation targets what cops call "violence-as-a-service" - crime crews recruiting kids and teens online to carry out contract killings and other real-world attacks.…
Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Microsoft’s agentic future
Microsoft has begun rolling out a public preview of native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in the latest Windows 11 Insider builds, edging its much-touted “agentic OS” vision closer to reality.…
Classic MacOS for non-Apple PowerPC kit rediscovered
As well as the Mac clones, there were PC-style PowerPC machines – and a version of classic MacOS for them has just been rediscovered, enabling previously unimagined combinations.…
Automakers' AI dreams may run out of road over the next five years
Only five percent of carmakers will sustain heavy AI investments by the end of the decade as most fail to meet amibitous goals.…
IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse
IBM has topped an autumn flurry of Db2 updates with new features for its Intelligence Center console, promising to let users manage deployments of the 42-year-old database across on-prem, cloud, and containerized environments from a single place.…
IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions
IBM has cracked open its wallet again, agreeing to shell out $11 billion for Confluent in a bid to glue together the data sprawl underpinning the next wave of enterprise AI. …
UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up
The UK government has announced enhanced protection for undersea cables using autonomous vessels alongside crewed warships and aircraft, responding to escalating Russian surveillance activities.…