Brush up on your ‘Delvish’ – the lingo that flatters LLMs into a sort of submission Despite growing evidence that generative AI creates more work for humans than it saves, organizations are deploying it in frontline roles like customer service chatb…
Lees meerAlternaleaf now has an outsized tech team, a build-not-buy mentality, and a love of FOSS When Myles Lawlor took the job as chief technology officer at Alternaleaf, Australia's largest online alternative health clinic, he started calling industry con…
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Lees meerMinister reckons dedicated cops necessary to protect digital transactions India has announced a plan to train a specialized wing of 5000 "Cyber Commandos" in the next five years, as part of its efforts to address cyber crime.…
Lees meerFoxcon and Sharp imagine a sofa and television in a connected electric van Japanese electronics giant Sharp and its majority stakeholder, Foxconn, have unveiled an electric vehicle that features, among other mod cons, an "extended living room."…
Lees meerCISA wants you to leap on Citrix and Ivanti issues. Adobe, Intel, SAP also bid for patching priorities Patch Tuesday Another Patch Tuesday has dawned, as usual with the unpleasant news that there are pressing security weaknesses and blunders to add…
Lees meerKyndryl survey suggests there's life in big iron yet Even mainframes can't escape the AI bug, with a report finding that big iron is becoming a prime candidate to host and run AI workloads, while enterprises are increasingly integrating their mainfr…
Lees meerIsn't saying how much they'll cost or when they'll fire up Oracle is going nuclear over growing demand for AI datacenters, and that's not a metaphor for Larry Ellison's mood.…
Lees meerChinese giant claims lithium batteries exploded, now one server hall is waterlogged At least a portion of Chinese web giant Alibaba's online services have been disrupted by a fire at a Singapore datacenter following what's said to be an Li-ion batte…
Lees meerPost-IPO chapter ends after SQL biz shed jobs, products in bid to find buyer A private equity biz has succeeded in its takeover of MariaDB 18 months after its disastrous IPO.…
Lees meer'Insider wrongdoing' to blame for security breach Avis Rent A Car System has alerted 299,006 customers across multiple US states that their personal information was stolen in an August security breach.…
Lees meerCorrection, no one wanted – well, except perhaps these patent filers at Ford Someday soon, if Ford has its way, drivers and passengers may be bombarded with infotainment ads tailored to their personal and vehicle data. …
Lees meerChatbots, generative models 'in many ways the next step in the surveillance economy' Web browsers now commonly sport AI services provided by on-device or cloud-based models. However, a few holdouts remain convinced it's a bad idea.…
Lees meerDuo accused of stealing $3.2B of 20nm tech and secrets Two former Samsung employees have reportedly been arrested in South Korea on suspicion they stole more than $3.2 billion in intellectual property to build their own chip factory in China.…
Lees meerXanadu release also adds a Pro tier, along with lots more AI SaaSy workflow vendor ServiceNow has opted for a different database to back its applications, and will introduce it this week along with the new "Xanadu" release.…
Lees meerAI infra startup serves up Llama 3.1 405B at 100+ tokens per second Not to be outdone by rival AI systems upstarts, SambaNova has launched inference cloud of its own that it says is ready to serve up Meta’s largest models faster than the rest.…
Lees meerPost-IPO chapter ends after SQL biz shed jobs, products in bid to find buyer A private equity biz has succeeded in its takeover of MariaDB 18 months after its disastrous IPO.…
Lees meerNot even the venerable expertise of the US Space Force is enough to push progress Despite more than two decades of work, the US military's GPS modernization efforts are still so muddled that uninterrupted operation of a secure network of GPS satelli…
Lees meerKyndryl survey suggests there's life in big iron yet Even mainframes can't escape the AI bug, with a report finding that big iron is becoming a prime candidate to host and run AI workloads, while enterprises are increasingly integrating their mainfr…
Lees meerPost-IPO chapter ends after SQL biz shed jobs, products in bid to find buyer A private equity bid has succeeded in its takeover of MariaDB 18 months after its disastrous IPO.…
Lees meerAnalyst suggests Redmond's internal distro may one day fly the coop Azure Linux is Microsoft's take on the open source operating system. It is primarily used for internal purposes, but could it become (yet another) distribution option?…
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