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City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do
Europe’s largest local authority has allocated £5.3 million ($6.7 million) in next year’s budget to pay for manual workarounds deemed necessary after its effort to transition from SAP to Oracle ended in an expensive disaster.…
On-disk format change beckons for brave early adopters of Bcachefs
New versions of the two leading next-generations filesystems are coming: both OpenZFS 2.2.3, and some time afterwards, an improved bcachefs.…
Palantir boss says company's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe
The CEO of controversial data-mining firm Palantir has claimed that the company's technology has prevented terrorist attacks in Europe, thereby implicitly saving the continent from the return of fascism.…
Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans' personal data
US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that aims to prevent the sale or transfer of Americans' sensitive personal information and government-related data to adversarial countries including China and Russia.…
Plans to heat districts with datacenters may prove too hot to handle
Using waste heat from datacenters for district heating makes sense from an environmental standpoint, yet there are implementation challenges and potential pitfalls introduced with any government regulations covering it.…
Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral
The European Commission is investigating Microsoft's €15 million ($16.3 million) investment in French startup Mistral, which came just after the latter released a large language model to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT.…
Nvidia lures autonomous car boss from China's Baidu
Nvidia has picked up the former head of Baidu's L2+ Autonomous Driving System, Luo Qi, to head the engineering team of its own automotive business unit.…
Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI
Google has again stoked fears that rival Microsoft is using anticompetitive business practices and licenses to establish a cloud monopoly, and is calling on regulators to take action.…
Husqvarna ports Doom to a robot lawnmower – not, thankfully, its chainsaws
Swedish garden appliance maker Husqvarna has ported Doom to one of its robotic lawn mowers.…
That home router botnet the Feds took down? Moscow's probably going to try again
Authorities from eleven nations have delivered a sequel to the January takedown of a botnet run by Russia on compromised Ubiquiti Edge OS routers – in the form of a warning that Russia may try again, so owners of the devices should take precautions.…
EU sanctions Indian tech outfit that has partnered with New Delhi's IT Ministry
The European Union has imposed sanctions against Indian microelectronics maker Si2 Microsystems late last week for allegedly providing Russia with goods and technology that support the country's illegal invasion of Ukraine.…
OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT
OpenAI has accused The New York Times Company of paying someone to "hack" ChatGPT to generate verbatim paragraphs from articles in its newspaper. By hack, presumably the biz means: Logged in as normal and asked it annoying questions.…
Texas judge turns out the lights on Federal survey of cryptominers' energy consumption
A Texas judge has granted a temporary restraining order that prevents the US federal government surveying domestic cryptocurrency miners about their energy consumption.…
Apple's Titan(ic) iCar project is dead as self-driving dream fails to materialize
After nearly a decade of work, two indictments, the departure of a senior exec, and unknown levels of expenditure, Apple has reportedly decided to cancel its not-so-secret self-driving car effort, Project Titan.…
US military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes
The US Department of Defense has deployed machine learning algorithms to identify targets in over 85 air strikes on targets in Iraq and Syria this year.…
Today in tech layoffs: Sony Interactive and Expedia
Sony's gaming wing has become the latest technology org to announce broad layoffs, including the complete closure of the London office of PlayStation Studios amid other headcount reductions. …
What is GitHub Copilot Enterprise? You and your org just might find out firsthand
GitHub on Tuesday made Copilot Enterprise generally available, hoping to sell corporate developers on automated coding assistance.…
Sandvine put on America's export no-fly list after Egypt used network tech for spying
The US Commerce Department has blacklisted Sandvine for selling its networking monitoring technology to Egypt, where the Feds say the gear was used to spy on political and human-rights activists.…
NIST updates Cybersecurity Framework after a decade of lessons
After ten years operating under the original model, and two years working to revise it, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released version 2.0 of its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF).…
Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after landing on its side
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lunar lander is facing another countdown. This time the question is how much longer it can continue to operate until it exhausts what remains of the battery life.…