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The future of software development: Now with less software development
More than 3,000 software developers from around the world gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to learn what will become of software development in the AI era.…
Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm
Close on the heels of a report that OpenAI has missed revenue targets and may not be able to pay its future bills, compute partner Oracle is keeping calm and carrying on with a massive new datacenter complex in the New Mexico desert.…
Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges
The US Department of Justice has accused data and AI platform provider Cloudera of abusing a program designed to give permanent residency to foreign workers who take tough-to-fill positions by creating a parallel hiring process that dumped the applications of Americans to a non-functional email address. …
OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock
OpenAI's top models are officially available on Amazon Web Services' Bedrock managed inference and agent platform.…
Don't pay Vect a ransom - your data's likely already wiped out
Organizations hit by the wave of Trivy and LiteLLM supply-chain compromises that paid Vect in hopes of recovering their data likely did not get much back, according to Check Point Research. That's because the ransomware Vect uses isn't actually ransomware at all, but a wiper that destroys any file larger than 128KB.…
Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects
As the Iran war pushes up energy prices, the Trump administration is paying offshore wind developers to walk away from projects and invest instead in fossil fuel infrastructure.…
Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative
If you're tired of interacting with a bot that spews Nazi propaganda or refers to itself as MechaHitler, you could sign off of Elon Musk's xAI. Or, just to be sure, use an LLM whose training data ends in 1930, three years before the Nazis took power in Germany and nine years before World War II started.…
IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability
IBM has announced global availability of Bob, the AI coding assistant - sorry partner - which it claims has delivered a productivity boost to the 80,000 big bluers pressed into guinea pig status last year.…
Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps
Amazon has announced two AI services pitched with typical techbro hyperbole, aimed at changing the way you work.…
Have I Been Pwned claims Pitney Bowes hit by 8.2M email address leak
Logistics technology company Pitney Bowes, which makes franking machines for US postage, is the latest scalp claimed by ShinyHunters and its ongoing spree of pay-or-leak attacks against major organizations.…
Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet'
NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has appeared before the US House Appropriations Committee to explain the proposed Trump administration plan to cut $5.6 billion from the space agency's budget.…
Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon
Tenstorrent on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Galaxy Blackhole AI compute platform.…
Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids
Those pencil pushers at the European Commission are drawing up measures to ensure Google opens up its Android smartphone platform to something few users asked for – competing AI services.…
UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team
Later today, prospective candidates will log onto a UK government call to convince themselves that £125k a year is worth the trouble of tackling a technological landscape swamped by colliding projects.…
Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts
Two men face charges over a series of arson attacks on 5G masts spanning two years following a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investigation.…
Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change'
Users of Microsoft Outlook on iOS are continuing to experience outages more than 24 hours after glitches first surfaced, despite Microsoft's assurances it rolled back the configuration change and restored services.…
SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question
European-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch - even as reports swirl that its majority stakeholder is exploring a $6 billion sale which could land the Linux vendor in American hands.…
Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back
Opinion The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away as vendor lock-in starts to kick in, and prices increase.…
UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit
The UK's pensions and welfare ministry has slammed its outsourcing provider, SSCL, for sharing a document the department says it "inadvertently provided", a document that later surfaced in a legal dispute over a £370 million contract.…
Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers
Australia has come up with a new way to ensure social media and search companies pay to support journalism: a 2.25 percent tax on revenue that’s avoidable if companies instead do deals with local media.…