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What's up with Alphabet and Microsoft lately? Profits, sales – and AI costs

Fri, 26/04/2024 - 12:02am
If ML proves an expensive habit in future, these money printers won't have much to worry about ... probably

Alphabet and Microsoft's stock prices jumped in after-hours trading today after the AI-infatuated businesses delivered higher-than-anticipated quarterly earnings.…

Amazon to blow $11B on cluster of Indiana bit barns

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 10:34pm
Talk about going round the (South) Bend

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is adding $11 billion of datacenter capacity in St Joseph County outside South Bend, Indiana, the cloud giant announced Thursday.…

Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 9:43pm
Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal

Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using AI software to make it seem as if he made racist and antisemitic remarks.…

Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls'

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 9:03pm
Cash to go out as refunds to punters

The FTC today announced it would be sending refunds totaling $5.6 million to Ring customers, paid from the Amazon subsidiary's coffers.…

ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 8:08pm
As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts

Between shutting down or selling TikTok, owner ByteDance would prefer doing the former.…

FCC votes 3-2 to bring net neutrality back from the dead

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 7:14pm
Law responds again to pings

The FCC voted Thursday to restore America's net neutrality rules, nearly seven years after they were taken offline.…

Detecting drift and dealing with the Silicon Valley mindset

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 6:45pm
Pulumi's CEO on new products and that other Infrastructure as Code company

Interview  Infrastructure as code biz Pulumi has updated its eponymous Deployments product with drift detection and automated clean-up for an untidy reality.…

Two cuffed in Samourai Wallet crypto dirty money sting

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 5:15pm
Suspects in Portugal and the US said to have laundered over $100M

Two men alleged to be co-founders of cryptocurrency biz Samourai Wallet face serious charges and potentially decades in US prison over claims they owned a product that facilitated the laundering of over $100 million in criminal cash.…

TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 4:30pm
Watch out Intel ... Angstrom-class A16 with Super Rail backside power tech incoming

Semiconductor giant TSMC has disclosed details of a process technology called A16 that could be delivering the first 1.6nm chips for customers by 2026.…

Spotify claims Apple wants 'tax' for in-app pricing tweak

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 3:54pm
App maker accuses Cupertino of defying EU rules

Spotify claims Apple rejected an update to the popular music streaming app that would have informed users about purchase methods outside of the Apple ecosystem.…

DARPA's latest toy is a 20-foot, 12-ton tank that drives itself

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 3:00pm
Crew entirely optional

DARPA has been working on off-road autonomous vehicles for decades, and now it has a combat-scale unmanned tank to show.…

City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 2:30pm
Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place

Birmingham City Council, Europe's biggest local authority, has no way of knowing if financial fraud has been committed after it failed to run security and audit features in a new Oracle Fusion ERP system.…

SK hynix breaks Q1 revenue records on back of AI boom

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 2:00pm
Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM tech

The global AI infrastructure buying frenzy is still in full swing – so much so that it has pushed the world's second largest memory maker, SK hynix, into its second highest operating profit ever and an all-time high for Q1 revenues.…

Russia, Iran pose most aggressive threat to 2024 elections, say infoseccers

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 1:34pm
Google security crew reveal ‘the four Ds’ to be on the watch for

It may come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that experts say, in revealing the most prevalent and likely tactics to meddle with elections this year, that state-sponsored cybercriminals pose the biggest threat.…

Meta's value plummets as Zuckerberg admits AI needs more time and money

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 1:00pm
Revenues up, but is the AI hype bubble is threatening to burst?

Meta's shares tumbled after company boss Mark Zuckerberg said the quiet bit out loud: it will take a while before AI bets start paying back the huge financial investments it is making.…

Atos hopes for lifeline as refinancing saga set to drag on into May

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 12:35pm
Struggling French tech giant posts disappointing Q1 results

Crisis-hit tech giant Atos is pushing back the deadline for its refinancing proposals after posting a slim operating profit of €48 million ($51 million) for calendar Q1.…

Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 11:45am
What do we say to the God of Death? Not today

Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has woken up again, having survived three lunar nights.…

Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 11:00am
The software redemption

Teaching prisoners how to design and program websites turns out to improve their sense of self-worth and provides them with digital literacy skills that help them stay out of prison.…

Throwflame launches fire-spitting robo-dog from Hell

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 10:19am
The Thermonator can be yours for just $9,420

Picture Boston Dynamics' nightmare fuel robot dog Spot. Now imagine it 1,000 percent more terrifying.…

Microsoft and Amazon's AI ambitions spark regulatory rumble

Thu, 25/04/2024 - 9:34am
Tech giants confident everything's in order

UK regulators want to hear from "interested third parties" on whether Microsoft and Amazon's investments in AI startups is impeding competition.…