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Google to allow Android users with high pain tolerance to sideload unverified apps
Google has decided to loosen some of its recently introduced rules regarding registration of Android developers and their apps, but isn’t rushing to deliver the modest changes it plans.…
Atlassian twice shunned AWS Graviton CPUs, but now runs Jira and Confluence on them
Atlassian twice marked Amazon Web Services’ Graviton CPUs off-limits for production purposes, but recently relented and now uses the processors to power thousands of server instances that run its Jira and Confluence products. So what changed?…
Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents
Microsoft believes the next generation of AI models will use hundreds of trillions of parameters. To train them, it's not just building bigger, more efficient datacenters – it's started connecting distant facilities using high-speed networks spanning hundreds or thousands of miles.…
OpenAI GPT-5.1 adds more personalities, loses inhibitions
OpenAI on Wednesday introduced GPT-5.1, an AI model update that's "warmer," more conversational, and slightly more willing to blurt out unwelcome observations about sex, violence, and mental health in a way that invites emotional dependence.…