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Googlers asked if they'd like to bury themselves next to Stadia, Chromecast, DropCam
Google's latest round of layoffs is looking a bit different than usual, with the Chocolate Factory offering a buyout to employees in the recently created Platforms & Devices division.…
Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032
Video Astronomers reckon a 220-million-kilogram asteroid is going to swing by Earth in 2032 with a 1-in-100 chance of hitting us.…
Intel sinks $19B into the red, kills Falcon Shores GPUs, delays Clearwater Forest Xeons
Intel capped off a tumultuous year with a reality check for its product roadmaps.…
Google to Iran: Yes, we see you using Gemini for phishing and scripting. We're onto you
Google says it's spotted Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and North Korean government agents using its Gemini AI for nefarious purposes, with Tehran by far the most frequent naughty user out of the four.…
Want Intel in your Surface? That’ll be $400 extra, says Microsoft
Businesses looking to pick up a Surface Pro tablet or laptop powered by Intel's latest generation of Core Ultra processors can expect to pay at least $400 more compared to Microsoft's existing Arm-based offerings.…
VMware plugs steal-my-credentials holes in Cloud Foundation
Broadcom has fixed five flaws, collectively deemed "high severity," in VMware's IT operations and log management tools within Cloud Foundation, including two information disclosure bugs that could lead to credential leakage under certain conditions.…
What better place to inject OpenAI's o1 than Los Alamos national lab, right?
OpenAI has announced another deal with Uncle Sam, this time to get its very latest models in the hands of US government scientists working on nuclear security and more.…
Tesla's numbers disappoint again ... and the crowd goes wild ... again
Tesla had a pretty dismal fourth-quarter of 2024 and a rough year overall, financially. But you wouldn't know it from the after-hours boost to its share price as CEO Elon Musk predicted a record 2025 buoyed by yet more promises of fully autonomous robotaxis.…
HPE's $14B Juniper takeover slams into Dept of Justice roadblock
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has sued to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks.…
Trump admin's purge of US cyber advisory boards was 'foolish,' says ex-Navy admiral
interview Gutting the Cyber Safety Review Board as it was investigating how China's Salt Typhoon breached American government and telecommunications networks was "foolish" and "bad for national security," according to retired US Navy Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery.…
Microsoft catapults DeepSeek R1 into Azure AI Foundry, GitHub
Microsoft has added the open source DeepSeek R1 LLM to Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, showing that even a lumbering tech giant can be nimble when it needs to be.…
DeepSeek stirs intrigue and doubt across the tech world
In a busy week for GenAI, the tech industry is weighing the impact of the latest interloper on the LLM scene. China's DeepSeek shocked stock markets on Monday, slashing $600 billion off the value of erstwhile AI golden child Nvidia.…
Even Windows 10 cannot escape the new Outlook
There is mixed news for Windows users. Microsoft has released a patch it claims fixes the DAC problem. The bad news – for some users – is that the new Outlook for Windows app has reached Windows 10.…
IBM seeks $3.5B in cost savings for 2025, discretionary spend to be clipped
IBM is again forecasting cost savings in the coming calendar year, which likely means one thing for its legions of workers – pedal fast and keep your heads down because headcount reductions may be on the way once more.…
Ransomware attack at New York blood services provider – donors turned away during shortage crisis
New York Blood Center Enterprises (NYBCe) is currently in its fifth day of handling a ransomware attack that has led to system disruption.…
Microsoft talks up 'significant capital investments' in AI as sector reacts to DeepSeek
Microsoft's latest earnings results exceeded expectations, yet comments from CEO Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood signaled turbulence in AI and execution, alongside signs of waning cloud demand.…
Vodafone aims to offer satellite-to-phone connectivity starting later this year
Vodafone claims it has made the first mobile video call using a satellite connection and standard 4G/5G smartphones, and said it aims to offer a commercial direct-to-cell satellite service in Europe starting later this year.…
Canvassing apps used by UK political parties riddled with privacy, security issues
The Open Rights Group (ORG) has raised concerns about a number of security issues it found in all three of the canvassing apps developed on behalf of the UK's three major political parties.…
A good kind of disorder: Boffins boost capacitor tech by disturbing dipoles
A new approach to materials engineering promises to overcome the limitation of capacitors commonly used in smartphones, displays and electric vehicles, according to a study published in Nature.…
WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff
More than three-quarters of UK employers admit to using some form of surveillance tech to spy on their remote workers' productivity.…