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Trump calls for Intel CEO's head over alleged China links

Thu, 2025-08-07 14:03
Chipzilla boss accused of huge conflict of interest

US President Donald Trump has called for the immediate resignation of Intel's recently installed chief exec, following concerns raised by a Republican Senator over his links with China.…

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Snowflake builds Spark clients for its own analytics engine

Thu, 2025-08-07 13:31
No need to spin up separate Apache Spark clusters, vendor claims

Snowflake is launching a client connector to run Apache Spark code directly in its cloud warehouse - no cluster setup required.…

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KLM, Air France latest major organizations looted for customer data

Thu, 2025-08-07 13:00
Watch out, the phishermen are about, customers told

European airline giants Air France and KLM say they are the latest in a string of major organizations to have their customers' data stolen by way of a break-in at a third party org.…

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Meta training AI on social media posts? Only 7% in Europe think it's OK

Thu, 2025-08-07 12:30
Privacy campaigner Max Schrem's NOYB is back on Zuck's back

Updated Meta's enthusiasm for training its AI on user data is not shared by the users themselves – at least for some Europeans – according a study commissioned by Facebook legal nemesis Max Schrems and his privacy advocacy group Noyb.…

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LG ordered to pay £150k after phone defect caused Scotland house fire

Thu, 2025-08-07 12:00
Forensics experts say the state of the K8’s battery suggests it led to the living room blaze

A Scottish woman who suffered a house fire in 2018 has won her case against LG after a judge ruled that her work-issued phone caused the blaze.…

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OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 reaches RC status

Thu, 2025-08-07 11:30
Bold, clean, much less legacy tech – and a bit less like old SUSE

A release candidate of openSUSE Leap 16.0 is here. It boldly strips out more established legacy tech than almost any other Linux we've seen.…

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The plan to make all networks optical is about to take two big steps forward

Thu, 2025-08-07 10:45
'IOWN' backers think it can replace the PCI bus, reinvent servers, and rewire motherboards

In December 2024, Japanese tech giant NTT revealed two impressive feats of high-speed networking.…

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Microsoft eventually realized the world isn't just the Northern Hemisphere

Thu, 2025-08-07 10:00
Veteran engineer explains the fall of 'Fall' in Windows release

Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has explained why the megacorp ditched its increasingly twee naming conventions for Windows 10 releases in favor of the blander H1 and H2.…

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GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI

Thu, 2025-08-07 09:15
Meanwhile, users complain the code shack is getting slower thanks to React

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has stated in a personal blog that the most advanced developers have "moved from writing code to architecting and verifying the implementation work that is carried out by AI agents."…

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Amnesty slams Elon Musk's X for 'central role' in fueling 2024 UK riots

Thu, 2025-08-07 08:45
Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act

Amnesty International claims Elon Musk's X platform "played a central role" in pushing the misinformation that stoked racially charged violence following last year's Southport murders.…

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Real estate agents use the power of AI to command plumbing, layout to disappear

Thu, 2025-08-07 08:15
Lightsockets lovingly hooked up to power supply by passionate, vivacious owners. Would suit professional who wants to read after dark

Feature "Deceptively spacious." "Prime location." "Up-and-coming area." "Some original features," which occasionally turn out to be asbestos. Estate agents are known for sometimes stretching the truth in pursuit of a sale, but the generative AI boom appears to have thrown things into overdrive – providing an easy way to present images of properties which simply don't reflect reality.…

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Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft

Thu, 2025-08-07 07:30
Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU

The UK public sector expects to spend around £9 billion on Microsoft products and services over five years under its current contract.…

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How to run OpenAI's new gpt-oss-20b LLM on your computer

Thu, 2025-08-07 06:44
All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience

Hands On Earlier this week, OpenAI released two popular open-weight models, both named gpt-oss. Because you can download them, you can run them locally.…

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Trump teases ‘approximately’ 100 percent tariff for imported semiconductors

Thu, 2025-08-07 04:27
Exemptions available for promises to build about American fabs

World War Fee US president Donald Trump appears to have settled his semiconductor tariff strategy.…

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I see you’re riding an Uber to work. Would you like a cheap coffee on the way?

Thu, 2025-08-07 02:35
Rideshare giant wants to use AI for delivery of hyper-personalized offers

Uber has revealed its ambition to offer hyper-personalized offers to its customers, but to do so it needs more of them to use more of its apps.…

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Robots can program each other's brains with AI, scientist shows

Thu, 2025-08-07 00:29
It's a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program

Computer scientist Peter Burke has demonstrated that a robot can program its own brain using generative AI models and host hardware, if properly prompted by handlers.…

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Apple piles another $100B on top of previous US manufacturing pledge

Wed, 2025-08-06 22:51
Quick - someone ask Siri if there are still tariffs on India

US President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook made a joint announcement from the White House on Wednesday of another Apple pledge to move manufacturing back to the United States, with an additional $100 billion in funding for domestic projects. The move could keep Apple one step ahead of Trump's unpredictable tariff policy, which threatens to increase costs on iPhones manufactured overseas. …

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Microsoft researchers bullish on AI security agent even though it let 74% of malware slip through

Wed, 2025-08-06 21:00
Project Ire promises to use LLMs to detect whether code is malicious or benign

Microsoft has rolled out an autonomous AI agent that it claims can detect malware without human assistance.…

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Not big in Japan: Apple's WebKit browser requirement may break new law

Wed, 2025-08-06 20:35
Three jurisdictions now want browser engine variety for a better mobile market

Apple now faces challenges to its WebKit browser requirement in three jurisdictions, as authorities around the globe try to jumpstart competition in the mobile software industry.…

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Mauritius investigates AFRINIC as African institutions show support ahead of new elections

Wed, 2025-08-06 20:01
But strife and criticism continue

Regional internet registry the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is now the subject of an investigation ordered by the government of its home country, Mauritius.…

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