Promise of AI features, but Big Blue won't reveal much more about next steps of its highly regarded relational database Opinion Last week, I committed a crime. No, I did not defraud the IRS/HMRC or steal some Snyder's Pretzels/Cheesy Wotsits. It wa…
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Lees meerInteroperability with US infrastructure a big selling point Australia's government has announced its intention to build a Top Secret-rated cloud, with help from Amazon Web Services.…
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Lees meerInteroperability with US infrastructure a big selling point Australia's government has announced its intention to build a Top Secret-rated cloud, with help from Amazon Web Services.…
Lees meerYou think the US leads the field? Wrong – OpenAI is way down WIPO's charts The World Intellectual Property Organization has counted the patents and scientific publications related to generative AI it could find between 2014 and 2023, and found 54,00…
Lees meerLatest datacenter Hype Cycle also includes augmented reality, new types of memory, nuke power Analyst firm Gartner has published its 2024 Hype Cycle for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies, and added virtual-to-physical migrations – aka "devirtu…
Lees meerEuropean neighbors say interference comes from Moscow and Kaliningrad, Kremlin claims it didn't find anything The UN's Radio Regulations Board (RRB) has asked Russia to play nice with Europe and not interfere with satellites.…
Lees meerNow even the 'droids are being laid off – sheesh! Amazon is axing its Astro for Business robotic security sentry just seven months after announcing the thing.…
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Lees meerTake that for ignoring robots.txt! Cloudflare on Wednesday offered web hosting customers a way to block AI bots from scraping website content and using the data without permission to train machine learning models.…
Lees meerZuckerborg's justification isn't good enough, says watchdog Meta's plan to expand its AI presence in South America has been hamstrung, with Brazilian officials today banning the Facebook parent company from using its citizens' data to train AI algor…
Lees meerOutdated tech at Bureau of Industry and Security leaves licensing open to human error The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) – the agency Washington relies on to implement export licensing controls to ensure sanctioned technology doesn't reach ce…
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