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Tariff threat plays havoc with US PC market, economy not helping
Wolrd War Fee The US PC industry is suffering from inventory indigestion caused by resellers over-ordering hardware to avoid Donald Trump's expected import taxes on China-made kit.…
AI in your toaster: Analyst predicts $1.5T global spend in 2025
Tech analysts expect worldwide spending on AI to hit nearly $1.5 trillion in 2025, including $268 billion on optimized servers. These investments will also soon appear in even more consumer products.…
Axiom Space aims for the International Space Station with its Orbital Data Center Node
Axiom Space and Spacebilt have announced plans to add optically interconnected Orbital Data Center (ODC) infrastructure to the International Space Station (ISS).…
OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance
AI models often produce false outputs, or "hallucinations." Now OpenAI has admitted they may result from fundamental mistakes it makes when training its models.…
Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to do
A Microsoft exec claims Copilot is boosting productivity among the customers that adopted it yet sustained efforts to convince many them of the returns on investment remains a work in progress.…
Strong Java LTS arrives with the release of 25
Oracle has released JDK (Java Development Kit) 25, the first long term support (LTS) version since JDK 21 two years ago. New features include beginner-friendly compact source files, succinct module imports, and more flexible constructors.…
BreachForums kingpin goes from walk-free deal to 3-year stretch
The founder of the popular cybercrime website BreachForums will spend three years in prison after previously being let off with a slap on the wrist.…
UK telco Colt’s recovery from August cyberattack pushes into November
Brit telco Colt Technology Services says its recovery from an August cyberattack might not be completed until late November.…
Sky plans to ditch up to 500 staff in the Technology Group
Exclusive Sky Group, the Brit-based commercial TV and broadband service slinger owned by Comcast, is chopping up to 600 employees from the Technology, Consumer Group and COO divisions in the UK.…
Microsoft pens $15B love letter to the UK with 23,000 Nvidia GPUs attached
Microsoft appears to have trumped Google's UK datacenter ambitions with a $15 billion investment in cloud and AI infrastructure in the country.…
Why Microsoft has the name of an old mouse hidden in its Bluetooth drivers
Lurking within the Windows Bluetooth stack is a hardcoded reference to the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000. Is this nostalgic favoritism from Microsoft? Or is it just somebody, somewhere, making a mistake that an engineer had to work around?…
Whitehall lobs £40M at 'critical' phase of police DB reboot
The Home Office is flinging nearly £40 million in taxpayer cash at PA Consulting to get the big-ticket successor to the Police National Computer (PNC) over the finish line.…