What's up with Alphabet and Microsoft lately? Profits, sales – and AI costs
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
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
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'
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
UK regulators want to hear from "interested third parties" on whether Microsoft and Amazon's investments in AI startups is impeding competition.…