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Microsoft-owned GitHub: Open source needs funding. Ya think?
GitHub, owned by money-bags Microsoft, has called upon the European Union to create a publicly funded "Sovereign Tech Fund" (EU-STF) to boost the open source software ecosystem.…
Britain's AI datacenter plans face energy, planning, investment challenges
Significant hurdles stand in the way of the UK government's push to become a global AI superpower, including energy constraints, planning difficulties and the datacenter investment required for it all.…
Eau no! Dior tells customers their data was swiped in cyber snafu
Fashion house Dior has begun dropping data breach notices after cybercrooks with a taste for high-end targets made off with customer data.…
50 years ago, Gates and Allen made the deal that launched Microsoft
This week marked the 50th anniversary of the birth of several empires. On July 22, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen signed a deal with Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems.…
Not pretty, not Windows-only: npm phishing attack laces popular packages with malware
The popular npm package "is" was infected with cross-platform malware, around the same time that linting utility packages used with the prettier code formatter were infected with Windows-only malware.…
EU cloud gang challenges Broadcom's $61B VMWare buy in court
+COMMENT Trade group Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has filed a formal appeal before the European General Court to seek annulment of the European Commission's decision to approve Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.…
The tiny tech tribe who could change the world tomorrow but won't
There are ten people in the world who could decide tomorrow to make IT better, and it would become better. Not better for some, not better for a while, but better for all and forever.…
Google just spent $14 billion on servers in 91 days, plans even higher spending soon
Google’s parent company Alphabet has increased its capex budget for the year by $10 billion and now expects to spend $85 billion this year, and more in 2026.…
Mistral AI environmental report confirms AI is a hungry, thirsty beast
While it's widely known that the computers powering generative AI use a ton of water and power, its actual impact on the environment is often harder to pin down.…
AWS closes China AI research center, citing boilerplate 'business priorities'
Amazon Web Services has closed its AI lab in Shanghai, China.…
Trump AI plan rips the brakes out of the car and gives Big Tech exactly what it wanted
The White House on Wednesday announced its AI Action Plan, unveiling a sweeping anti-regulatory approach that disengages the brakes from AI development and datacenter construction in the US. The plan also promises to clamp down on what it called "ideological bias" in AI models.…
UN World Court declares countries must curb emissions or be held responsible
In a sweeping and unprecedented legal opinion, the United Nations' highest court has decreed that "The consequences of climate change are severe and far-reaching" and constitute an "urgent and existential threat." What's more, it stated that action must be taken to not only ameliorate that threat but also to determine the legal consequences for those states whose actions harm others.…
How to host a Linux-powered local dev site in Windows
hands on If you're building a website that will eventually be hosted on a Linux server (as so many are), you have a couple of choices about where you do your development work. You can create a beta version of the site at your web host and upload all of the files there or you can create a local test server that sits in your home or office.…
IRL Com recruits teens for real-life stabbings, shootings, FBI warns
A subset of an online group that recruits children and teens for contract shootings, kidnappings, and other real-life violent crimes poses a growing threat to youth, according to the FBI.…
Nothing to see here: Brave browser blocks privacy-busting Microsoft Recall
In an effort to protect user privacy, Brave browser 1.81 will prevent Microsoft Recall from screenshotting it by default.…
Tata Consultancy enforces return-to-work mandate on all US staff, effective immediately
Exclusive Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced an instant five-day return-to-work mandate for US workers, and warns that staff will be monitored and called out if they don't comply.…
AI industry's size obsession is killing ROI, engineer argues
Enterprise CIOs have been mesmerized by GenAI claims of autonomous agents and systems that can figure anything out. But the complexity that such large models deliver is also fueling errors, hallucinations, and spiraling bills.…
Meta eggheads demo Bluetooth wristband that decodes muscle twitches for UI control
Researchers at Meta have come up with a wristband that picks up your muscle twitches and turns them into real-time computer commands - no cameras or implants required.…
Microsoft SharePoint victim count hits 400+ orgs in ongoing attacks
More than 400 organizations have been compromised in the Microsoft SharePoint attack, according to Eye Security, which initially sounded the alarm on the mass exploitation last Friday, even before Redmond confirmed the critical vulnerabilities.…
Power cuts, cable damage, and government shutdowns behind Q2 internet outages
The previous quarter was a busy one for internet disruptions, according to Cloudflare, with government-mandated shutdowns in several nations, a massive power outage hitting Spain's infrastructure, damage to fiber optic cabling, and technical issues hitting North America.…