Worst season of Succession ever The story of Sam Altman and OpenAI took a twist this morning that even the most hallucinatory of chatbots would struggle to conjure: he and other OpenAI chums - including co-founder Greg Brockman - are off to Microsof…
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Lees meerYet another attempt to create better balance for devs and users Sentry has brought yet another software license into the world – the Functional Source License – in an effort to balance user freedom and developer sustainability.…
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Lees meerJust because it's super efficient at Linpack doesn't mean it'll be in everything SC23 Is it time for the Green500 to expand its scope to account for more diverse workloads? This was one of the questions attendees grappled with at SC23.…
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Lees meerSoftware duo must respond with remedies – plus: closing deal in '23 likely a Figma of their imagination Updated The European Commission says Adobe's proposed $20 billion purchase of web-first design collaboration startup Figma will harm competition…
Lees meerCrims post passport scans and internal forms up for 'auction' to prove it The Rhysida ransomware group says it's behind the highly disruptive October cyberattack on the British Library, leaking a snippet of stolen data in the process.…
Lees meerSoftware duo must respond with remedies – plus: closing deal in '23 likely a Figma of their imagination The European Commission says Adobe's proposed $20 billion purchase of web-first design collaboration startup Figma will harm competition in the r…
Lees meerCrims post passport scans and internal forms up for 'auction' to prove it The Rhysida ransomware group says it's behind the highly disruptive October cyberattack on the British Library, leaking a snippet of stolen data in the process.…
Lees meerWorst season of Succession ever The story of Sam Altman and OpenAI took a twist this morning that even the most hallucinatory of chatbots would struggle to conjure: he and other OpenAI chums - including co-founder Greg Brockman - are off to Microsof…
Lees meerElementary OS going full speed ahead, but Parachutist Parakeet considers a new, post-Enlightenment glide path Exclusive While Elementary OS commits to Wayland, the development team of the Budgie desktop is changing course and will work with the Xfc…
Lees meerThe other big Chinese distro, after Kylin, seems to be thriving Leading Chinese Linux vendor UnionTech says it's reached an impressive milestone: it says it has three million users of its desktop edition, Tongxin UOS. Yep, million.…
Lees meerSize matters, and what you do with it. But keep it safe Opinion Quick question number 1. Do you trust Google? The Movement for an Open Web (MOW) doesn't. It's taking Big G to the UK's Big C – the Competition and Markets Authority – over the forthco…
Lees meer'Support monkey' turned network isolation job into a banana skin Who, Me? To quote the ancient philosophers: "Monday Monday, dah dah dah, can't trust that day." And so it is, dear reader, that we find ourselves yet again betrayed by the beginning o…
Lees meerAfter string of self-driving crashes, Kyle Vogt plans to 'spend time with my family and explore some new ideas' The CEO of self-driving cab outfit Cruise has parked his career and strolled off into the sunset.…
Lees meerTest, progress, or mishap – take your pick SpaceX judged the second launch of its Starship a success after the craft's two launch stages separated and one made it into space, but neither finished their mission.…
Lees meerInterim CEO appointed as rumours swirl about comebacks, doing a startup, or even hardware with Jony Ive Updated The shocking and sudden removal of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for not being "consistently candid in his communications" has spawned a set of …
Lees meerKyle Vogt plans to 'spend time with my family and explore some new ideas' The CEO of self-driving cab outfit Cruise has parked his career and strolled off into the sunset.…
Lees meerVersion 4.18 brings first ports to RISC-V and PowerPC, support for next-gen datacenter CPUs The Xen Project has quietly debuted version 4.18 of its eponymous hypervisor – the year's only release of the virtualization tool.…
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