Flags up potential job cuts, price hikes, and national security issues Union Unite thinks the proposed merger in Britain of telcos Vodafone and Three would results in thousands of people losing their jobs, price hikes for customers, and a "serious t…
Lees meerIncoming datacenter chips will power new ThinkAgile, ThinkSystem boxes Lenovo is the latest vendor to unveil systems aimed at the wave of interest in AI, but the China-based tech giant is also among the first to say its boxes will feature Intel's Em…
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Lees meerNobody expects the Spanish admonition! Pope Francis urged world leaders to establish an international treaty regulating AI, and warned against relying on machines to make moral and ethical decisions that should be left to humans.…
Lees meerAssociation offers utopian vision of authors and model-makers bargaining over the price at which to opt-in for content scraping The Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA) has asked us all to imagine a future in which builders of AI models offer …
Lees meer'Cos Ananova worked out so well A startup with aspirations of becoming a trusted global news brand is planning to launch a service delivering curated content – written by AI and delivered by artificial anchors. …
Lees meerAssociation suggests future utopia would see authors and model-makers bargain over the price at which to opt-in for content scraping The Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA) has asked us all to imagine a future in which builders of AI models o…
Lees meerAssociation suggests future utopia would see authors and model-makers bargain over the price at which to opt-in for content scraping The Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA) has asked us all to imagine a future in which builders of AI models o…
Lees meerFinding a reason to do it might be the hardest part CANALYS APAC FORUM Businesses are clamoring to adopt AI, without really knowing what to do with it, according to speakers on a panel at last week's Canalys APAC Forum in Bangkok.…
Lees meerAs Broadcom division announces it will keep desktop hypervisors, revive 'Flings' VMware by Broadcom, as the former VMware is now known, has in recent days dished out welcome news for its faithful.…
Lees meer'Your info won't be harvested for training' is the new 'Your private chatter won't be used for ads' Comment Cloud storage biz Dropbox spent time on Wednesday trying to clean up a misinformation spill because someone was wrong on the internet.…
Lees meerOh and its got more cores, a bigger cache, and a simpler chiplet architecture to boot Intel launched its 5th-generation Xeon Scalable processors with more cores, cache, and machine learning grunt during its AI Everywhere Event in New York Thursday.…
Lees meerCongress renews warrantless spying tool scribbled on back of huge check for the Pentagon US lawmakers today approved an $886 billion defense policy bill that includes a four-month extension to Section 702, the controversial surveillance tool that al…
Lees meerYou Musk be joking, says legal veep Updated The US Federal Communications Commission is continuing to reject SpaceX's $885 million bid to supply wireless broadband to rural areas via its Starlink internet satellites – much to the Musk-owned biz's a…
Lees meerThat should solve the global cybercrime problem, right? Microsoft has taken down US-based infrastructure and websites used by a cybercrime group to sell fraudulent online accounts to other crooks including Scattered Spider, the infamous social-engin…
Lees meerOne percent of Chrome users will experience the web as if using Firefox or Safari Starting January 4, 2024, Google says it will begin blocking third-party cookies by default in Chrome for one percent of users, only three or four years after rival br…
Lees meerSoftware cons reportedly outweighed public-cloud pros LinkedIn has abandoned its efforts to migrate its datacenter infrastructure to Microsoft Azure four years after announcing the planned move.…
Lees meerThe rapture of the black T-shirt brigade was very short indeed The kernel 6.6.6 version number delighted many a black-clad open source fan, but not for long. It's already been replaced with a more neighborly 6.6.7.…
Lees meerRobotaxi firm's car ran over a woman, then it allegedly misled investigators Updated GM’s self-driving taxi outfit, Cruise, has dismissed nine execs – including its chief operating officer – after staff withheld information regarding an incident in…
Lees meerDon't expect supply, or prices, to ease until 2025 at the earliest Kettle Over the last week AMD has been extolling the virtues of its latest kit, including the MI300 which Su's crew claim is the fastest AI processing package on the market.…
Lees meerCampaign to promote 'chat control' legislation allegedly sorted users by political views, religious beliefs An EU privacy rights group has filed a complaint against Elon Musk's X, alleging the platform unlawfully targeted advertisements from the blo…
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