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IBM touts progress on tech stack for AI-enabled airline with no passengers or alcohol
IBM and Riyadh Air have upgraded their contracted agreement, meaning the Saudi operation will not be the world's first digitally native airline, but will instead be the first AI native operator.…
Care leavers mired in red tape trying to get their own records
UK public sector organizations need to improve access for those who want to see their own records of growing up in care, the Information Commissioner says.…
UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act
Portugal has become the latest country to carve out protections for researchers under its cybersecurity law.…
Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won't say what it will cost
The head of the department delivering the UK government's digital identity scheme has rejected the £1.8 billion cost forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), but is not willing to provide an alternative until after a delayed consultation on the plans.…
Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks
Researchers at security software vendor Huntress say they’ve noticed a huge increase in ransomware attacks on hypervisors and urged users to ensure they’re as secure as can be and properly backed up.…
Intel to explore making chips with mega-corp Tata in India’s first fab
Intel will explore manufacturing some chips in India’s first fab after forming an alliance with Indian mega-corp Tata.…
Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut
US President Donald Trump has signalled he will allow Nvidia to resume sales of its H200 accelerators to China.…
Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix
Google plans to add a second Gemini-based model to Chrome to address the security problems created by adding the first Gemini model to Chrome.…
Bezos-backed Unconventional AI aims to make datacenter power problems go away
Interview Naveen Rao founded AI businesses and sold them to Intel and Databricks. He’s now turned his attention to satisfying AI's thirst for power and believes his new company, Unconventional AI, can do it by building chips inspired by nature.…
Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level
A growing number of websites are taking steps to ban AI bot traffic so that their work isn't used as training data and their servers aren't overwhelmed by non-human users. However, some companies are ignoring the bans and scraping anyway.…
DJ Garman drops the ball instead of the bass in AWS re:Invent keynote
AWS CEO Matt Garman's annual re:Invent keynote was the best kind of keynote, in that you could have slept in for nearly all of it and still been thrilled to pieces, provided you caught the last ten minutes. He concluded what was otherwise an AI-palooza chock full of boring guest speakers with an Andy Jassy style "twenty-five releases in ten minutes," complete with a basketball-style ten-minute shot clock counting down the time.…
Meta and Google turn to NextEra to feed insatiable datacenter power hunger
NextEra Energy on Monday tightened its grip on hyperscaler power demand, adding 2.5 GW of new renewable projects for Meta while deepening its partnership with Google, which already covers about 3.5 GW of capacity.…