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Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better
Imagine using an AI to sort through your prescriptions and medical information, asking it if it saved that data for future conversations, and then watching it claim it had even if it couldn't. Joe D., a retired software quality assurance (SQA) engineer, says that Google Gemini lied to him and later admitted it was doing so to try and placate him.…
Amazon's $200 billion capex plan: How I learned to stop worrying and love negative free cash flow
In their recent earnings call, Amazon kinda blew the doors off of industry analyst (motto: "we'll be wrong, then take it out on your stock") projections for their capex spend.…
Infosys bows to its master, signs deal with Anthropic
Indian IT professionals worried about 72-hour workweeks might soon face the opposite concern, as Bengaluru-based outsourcing giant Infosys has partnered with Anthropic to bring agentic AI to telecommunications companies and other regulated industries.…
China remains embedded in US energy networks 'for the purpose of taking it down'
Three new threat groups began targeting critical infrastructure last year, while a well-known Beijing-backed crew - Volt Typhoon - continued to compromise cellular gateways and routers, and then break into US electric, oil, and gas companies in 2025, according to Dragos' annual threat report published on Tuesday.…
GPU who? Meta to deploy Nvidia CPUs at large scale
Move over Intel and AMD — Meta is among the first hyperscalers to deploy Nvidia's standalone CPUs, the two companies revealed on Tuesday. Meta has already deployed Nvidia's Grace processors in CPU-only systems at scale and is working with the GPU slinger to field its upcoming Vera CPUs beginning next year.…
AI gets all the good stuff, including Micron's speedy 28 GB/s PCIe 6.0 SSD
It's time for a new generation of faster flash storage, but not on your laptop or desktop. Micron's first PCIe 6.0 SSDs have entered mass production and promise eye-watering transfer rates of up to 28 GB/s. However, unless you're building flash storage arrays for AI, you won't have a use for them.…
AI bit barns grow climate emergency by turning up the gas
Bit barns need a lot of power to operate and, as hyperscalers look for ways to generate it, they are adding more dirty energy in the form of new gas turbines. One estimate says that these new power sources could add another 44 million tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2030, equivalent to the annual emissions of 10 million private cars.…
Scientists show it's possible to solve problems in your dreams by playing the right sounds
It's like the movie Inception, but without Leonardo DiCaprio, unless you imagine him. Researchers used carefully timed sound cues to nudge dream content, and in some cases, boost next-morning problem solving. Could dreamtime product placement come next?…
React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components
Devographics has published its State of React survey, with over 3,700 developers speaking out about what they love and hate in the fractured React ecosystem.…
European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools
The European Parliament has reportedly turned off AI features on lawmakers' devices amid concerns about content going where it shouldn't.…
Flush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper
The AI hype cycle has officially reached the toilet, with a Japanese bathroom giant suddenly being pitched as a serious tech play.…
Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL
A group of influential users and developers of MySQL have invited Oracle to join their plans to create an independent foundation to guide the future development of the popular open source database, which Big Red owns.…
£111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure'
The UK's long-promised "Single Trade Window" has quietly run out of steam after burning through more than £111 million ($150 million), with officials confirming the program has been "brought to early closure."…
All the world's a stage – except this deputy federal CIO job
The Trump administration is looking for a deputy federal CIO, and theater fans need not apply.…
US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China
A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely China.…
Polish cops nab 47-year-old man in Phobos ransomware raid
Polish police have arrested and charged a man over ties to the Phobos ransomware group following a property raid.…
Gentoo moves to Codeberg from GitHub after airing Copilot concerns
Gentoo's official migration from Microsoft-owned GitHub to Codeberg is underway, as the Linux distribution fulfills a pledge to ditch the code shack due to "continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories."…
CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price
The clock is ticking for AI projects to either prove their worth or face the chopping block.…
UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open
Britain is telling businesses to "lock the door" on cybercrims as new government data suggests most still haven't even found the latch.…
Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the latest regulator to open an investigation into Elon Musk's X following repeated reports of harmful image generation by the platform's Grok AI chatbot.…