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This is Doom, running headless, on Ubuntu Arm… on a satellite
Ubuntu Summit Doom takes place on Mars, but up until recently, it has only been played on Earth. However, at the Ubuntu Summit, one enterprising developer explained how he extended the well-established "will it run Doom?" meme all the way into space.…
Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever
The US Department of Energy is partnering with Nvidia and Oracle to build seven new AI supercomputers to accelerate scientific research and develop agentic AI for discovery. Two of these systems, located at Argonne National Laboratory, will together form the DOE's largest AI supercomputing infrastructure.…
Nvidia adds AI peanut butter to Nokia's 6G network chocolate, throws in $1 billion
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Tuesday announced a partnership with Nokia to integrate AI technology into its mobile network infrastructure, bringing accelerated computing to the edge and paving the way for 6G-ready networks. As part of the deal, Nvidia will invest $1 billion in Nokia. Team Green's gear will boost spectral efficiency and make AI inference more accessible from mobile devices.…
Android malware types like your gran to steal banking creds
A new Android malware strain, Herodotus, steals credentials, logs keystrokes, streams victims' screens, and hijacks input - but with a twist: it mimics human typing by adding random delays between keystrokes to evade behavioral fraud detection systems.…
OpenAI tells Trump to build more power plants or China wins the AI arms race
OpenAI wants the Trump administration to build 100 gigawatts of additional electricity generation capacity per annum to avoid the US being overtaken by China in the AI arms race.…
Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches, filled to the brim with plagiarism and AI slop
What do you do if you're the richest man on Earth and don't like Wikipedia? Start your own imitation encyclopedia, call it Grokipedia, lift a bunch of pages from the site, and let AI fill in the rest. Obviously, that's a recipe for success.…
Forrester warns AI bubble to deflate as enterprises defer spending to 2027
ai-pocalypse Bubble, meet pin. Large organizations are set to defer a quarter of planned AI spending from next year until 2027, forcing a market correction.…
Think tank decries science friction between countries, demands global cooperation
Why can't we all just get along... for the good of science? New research suggests countries prioritizing national security over the greater good are hindering global research and economic development.…
Euro cloud alliance urges action on Broadcom as Microsoft mends fences
Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has issued its third European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) report, praising Microsoft's licensing concessions while accusing Broadcom of worsening anti-competitive practices.…
Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to
Anthropic has opened a waitlist for Claude for Excel, promising spreadsheet devotees that its LLM will be able to understand their entire workbook.…
Clearview AI faces criminal heat for ignoring EU data fines
Privacy advocates at Noyb filed a criminal complaint against Clearview AI for scraping social media users' faces without consent to train its AI algorithms.…
Cloudflare Q3 report shows the internet still breaks for the strangest reasons
Cloudflare's latest internet disruptions report reads like a global disaster log, with exam-related shutdowns, natural calamities, stray bullets, and even a Starlink software failure all taking chunks out of global connectivity.…
AI browsers face a security flaw as inevitable as death and taxes
Feature With great power comes great vulnerability. Several new AI browsers, including OpenAI's Atlas, offer the ability to take actions on the user's behalf, such as opening web pages or even shopping. But these added capabilities create new attack vectors, particularly prompt injection.…
Beatings, killings, and lasting fear: The human toll of MoD's Afghan data breach
Research submitted to the UK Parliament has revealed explicit threats to life and the deaths of family members and colleagues directly linked to the Ministry of Defence's 2022 Afghan relocation scheme data breach.…
Amazon axes 14,000 desk jobs in AI-powered slimming plan
Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs, blaming the accelerating impact of artificial intelligence for changing how the company operates – and how many people it needs.…
Google says reports of a Gmail breach have been greatly exaggerated
Panic spread faster than a phishing email on Tuesday after claims of a massive Gmail breach hit the headlines – but Google says it's all nonsense.…
Chatbots parrot Putin's propaganda about the illegal invasion of Ukraine
Popular chatbots powered by large language models cited links to Russian state-attributed sources in up to a quarter of answers about the war in Ukraine, raising fresh questions over whether AI risks undermining efforts to enforce sanctions on Moscow-backed media.…
UK government inflates G-Cloud framework to £14B
The UK government has launched a competition for cloud services worth up to £14 billion over four years – nearly triple the £4.8 billion over 18 months announced in an earlier market engagement.…
Marks & Spencer swaps out TCS for fresh helpdesk deal
UK retailer Marks & Spencer has replaced Tata Consultancy Services as its IT service desk provider following a procurement process that began in January.…
IBM Cloud stops signing and seeking new customers for its VMware service
IBM has announced it will stop marketing its VMware on IBM Cloud service to new customers.…