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Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of the open-source curl command line utility, just wants the AI slop to stop.…

A former US Army soldier, who reportedly hacked AT&T, bragged about accessing President Donald Trump's call logs, and then Googled "can hacking be treason," and "US military personnel defecting to Russia," pleaded guilty to conspiring to break into telecom firms' databases and extort at least $1 million.…

Like it or not, ChatGPT and other large language models are changing the world, including affecting how we speak, claims a group of researchers, and the end results could be an erosion of linguistic and cultural diversity.…

Mistral has released an open automatic speech recognition (ASR) software bundle called Voxtral in a bid to undercut rivals on price and quality.…

Apple has signed a deal with the only active rare earth mine under American control to begin sourcing magnets for its iDevices from the US - but not from the mine itself: Apple's going to recycle. …

If you're looking for top dollar and job satisfaction as an IT professional, try for a role in the biggest, most faceless mega-corporation you can find - at least that's what mid-year US salary survey data suggests.…

The global smartphone industry is taking a hit from increasing uncertainty and volatility in the marketplace caused by a certain US President's unpredictable trade policies.…

A survey of 500 IT asset managers in organizations that use Oracle Java has found that 73 percent have been audited in the last three years.…

America's largest corporations are increasingly listing AI among the major risks they must disclose in formal financial filings, despite bullish statements in public about the potential business opportunities it offers.…

Chip vendors like AMD may be closing the gap with Nvidia on GPU FLOPS, memory bandwidth, and HBM capacity, but without a high-speed interconnect and switch, like NVLink and NVSwitch, their ability to scale that performance remains limited.…

A Maryland IT, cloud, and security consultancy will have to pay the US government at least $14.75 million to settle multiple allegations that it issued false invoices between 2018-2023.…

When Ang Li, co-founder of agent software biz Simular, started working at Google DeepMind in 2017, software engineers at the search giant were skeptical about the usefulness of machine learning, or artificial intelligence (AI) as it has come to be called.…

World War Fee Gartner has trimmed its growth forecast for worldwide IT spending in 2025 as an "uncertainty pause" hits net new spending, caused in part by the unpredctability of US President Donald Trump's trade tariff policy.…

Seagate has released two 30 TB hard drives based on its HAMR technology, pitching them as more energy efficient cheaper options for datacenter operators dealing with AI workloads.…

The F-35 stealth fighter is not meeting its potential in British service because of availability issues, a shortage of support personnel, and delays in integrating key weapons that are limiting the aircraft's effectiveness.…

Meta overlord-for-life Mark Zuckerberg has revealed he plans to build several multi-gigawatt datacenter clusters, with the first to come online in 2026.…

Researchers have observed the largest ever collision between two massive black holes witnessed by humans, a finding that’s sent astrophysicists back to their calculators to re-think models.…

Nvidia has announced the US government will allow it to resume sales of its GPUs to Chinese customers.…

The government of Malaysia on Monday closed a back door that may have allowed the export of AI chips to China.…

Someone hacked Elmo's X account on Sunday, making it appear as if the lovable Sesame Street monster with the habit of referring to themselves in the third-person spewed a series of now-removed antisemitic, racist, and anti-Trump posts.…