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Cerebras to light up datacenters in North America and France packed with AI accelerators

Tue, 2025-03-11 12:35
Plus, startup's inference service makes debut on Hugging Face

Cerebras has begun deploying more than a thousand of its dinner-plate sized-accelerators across North America and parts of France as the startup looks to establish itself as one of the largest and fastest suppliers of AI inference services.…

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Fresh Wine-flavored version of Mono released

Tue, 2025-03-11 11:47
First new version in about five years, but it's who did it that matters more

The WINE project has put out its first release of Mono, the original FOSS .NET runtime, since it took the project over from Microsoft six months ago.…

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Eight days later, Microsoft's native Outlook app on iOS devices still plagued

Tue, 2025-03-11 11:23
Email client rises like a zombie, though its digital grave still marked by big red cross

The native Outlook email app for iOS users remains missing in action for some more than a week after users first reported service disruption, and Microsoft still hasn't confirmed the root cause.…

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Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months

Tue, 2025-03-11 10:15
It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live

Birmingham City Council did not tell its official auditors about the disastrous Oracle implementation for ten months after the suite of applications went live, and appeared to obstruct access to the new system needed to complete their work.…

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Britain dusts off idle spectrum for rail and emergency comms

Tue, 2025-03-11 09:46
1900 MHz band dormant since Y2K, but not available until 2029

Britain's telecoms regulator wants to repurpose unused mobile spectrum for the upcoming Emergency Services Network (ESN) and to overhaul communications in the railway sector.…

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MINJA sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users

Tue, 2025-03-11 08:37
Nothing like an OpenAI-powered agent leaking data or getting confused over what someone else whispered to it

AI models with memory aim to enhance user interactions by recalling past engagements. However, this feature opens the door to manipulation.…

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IBM dodges BMC's $1.6B bullet in US as London court slaps down LzLabs

Tue, 2025-03-11 07:33
Big Blue's legal eagles soar on both sides of the pond

IBM scored a pair of legal wins this week: The US Supreme Court declined to reinstate a $1.6 billion judgment previously awarded to BMC Software, and the High Court in London, England, ruled in favor of Big Blue in a lawsuit against LzLabs, which was accused of misappropriating IBM's mainframe technology.…

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Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats

Tue, 2025-03-11 06:27
The thermosphere usually drags space junk to its doom. As it thins, ruined orbits are a possibility

Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking due to climate change and one of the possible negative impacts is that space junk will stay in orbit for longer, bonk into other bits of space junk, and make so much mess that low Earth orbits become less useful.…

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Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build

Tue, 2025-03-11 05:24
Guessed tax obligations wrong which helped to disappoint Wall Street even as sales boomed

Oracle on Monday announced customers committed to $48 billion of future cloud services consumption – just $5 billion less that its annual revenue for FY 2024 – but investors aren’t impressed.…

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