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Zed, a fast new Rust-based text editor aimed at programmers, now lets you totally disable LLM bot integration. We're sure some users will rejoice – but how many?…

Meta's addition of AI services to encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp has Italian officials suspecting the Silicon Valley giant may be abusing its dominant market position to push unwanted features on users.…

Palo Alto Networks will buy Israeli security biz CyberArk in a $25 billion cash-and-stock deal confirmed today.…

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace $176.7 million to deliver a pair of rovers and a trio of scientific instruments to the Moon as part of the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.…

Veteran browser maker Opera has filed a complaint with Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) against Microsoft over alleged anti-competitive practices in Windows that favor Edge.…

The cybercriminals claiming responsibility for Ingram Micro's ransomware attack put a deadline on leaking its data nearly a month after the raid.…

Ofcom is to impose a £122,500 fine (about $164,000) on UK broadband provider Gigaclear for failing to deliver accurate caller location information when customers called the emergency services.…

Oracle has introduced new licensing terms that some users may see as hidden within the terms for VirtualBox, the general-purpose virtualization software for x86_64 hardware.…

Forget flash storage – flock storage is here after it was demonstrated that data can be saved to a bird.…

A trade body representing datacenter operators in Europe worried about standards for efficiency imposed by the EU has published a report to ensure its arguments are heard first.…

It is a little more than four years since the European Union first proposed legislation to govern tech companies that build AI systems and how users deploy them. A lot has changed since then.…

Cisco's Agntcy project is the latest AI framework to find refuge at the Linux Foundation.…

Australia will require Google to ensure that children aged under 16 cannot sign up for YouTube accounts.…

A vastly powerful earthquake that radiated out from the eastern Russian coast on Wednesday has caused a significant tsunami but hasn’t disrupted communications or cloud computing services.…

Australia’s attempt to return to space lasted just 14 seconds, after a Wednesday launch barely made it off the ground.…

The former CEO of Florida telco Q Link will spend up to five years in jail after attempting to steal more than $100 million from two US government programs.…

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday finally agreed to make public an unclassified report from 2022 about American telecommunications networks' poor security practices.…

Microsoft researchers have found that people get the most use of AI for writing and knowledge work, but they offer some comfort to worried white-collar workers, saying that their jobs may only change rather than go away completely.…

Analysis Nvidia has the green light to resume shipments of its H20 GPUs to China, but while the chip may be plentiful, bit barn operators in the region now have far more capable alternatives at their disposal.…

US federal government agencies have identified a surge in AI use cases over the past year. But rolling them out? That's where things slow down, thanks to funding gaps, compute shortages, outdated policies, and a workforce still playing catch-up.…