US Equal Employment agency says Workday AI hiring bias case should continue
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says a claim against Workday should be allowed to continue, arguing the HR and finance software vendor may qualify as an employment agency because of the way its AI tool screens applicants.…
NASA Says New Plan Needed To Return Rocks From Mars; Current Mission Design Can't Deliver Before 2040
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NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack
NASA has confirmed that a piece of space junk that crashed through a Florida home in March was a fragment of a discarded ISS battery pallet.…
Valkey Celebrates Its First Stable Release As Open-Source Redis Fork
Open sourcerers say suspected xz-style attacks continue to target maintainers
Open source groups are warning the community about a wave of ongoing attacks targeting project maintainers similar to those that led to the recent attempted backdooring of a core Linux library.…
KDE Plasma 6.0.4 Ships With Dozens Of Bug Fixes
Baidu Says AI Chatbot 'Ernie Bot' Has Attracted 200 Million Users
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AI gold rush continues as Microsoft invests $1.5B in UAE's G42
Microsoft has confirmed a $1.5 billion investment in G42, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) AI biz.…
Micron says it's first to QLC NAND with over 200 layers
Micron is now mass producing 232-layer QLC NAND, claiming it's the first memory manufacturer to break the 200-layer mark in QLC chips.…
Alleged Cryptojacking Scheme Consumed $3.5 Million of Stolen Computing To Make Just $1 Million
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AMD Announces Ryzen PRO 8840 & PRO 8000G Series CPUs
Change Healthcare’s ransomware attack costs edge toward $1B so far
UnitedHealth, parent company of ransomware-besieged Change Healthcare, says the total costs of tending to the February cyberattack for the first calendar quarter of 2024 currently stands at $872 million.…
Blackstone wants to plug hyperscale datacenter into former Britishvolt battery site
US private equity investor Blackstone has plans for a £10 billion ($12.45 billion) hyperscale datacenter in northern England on a site formerly owned by battery startup Britishvolt.…
Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11
Intel Vulkan Driver Wires Up Image Compression Control For VKD3D-Proton
Google location tracking deal could be derailed by politics
Google's plan to pay $62 million to settle allegations that it tracked people even when their Location History setting was switched off may have to be renegotiated based on several objections.…
Native BHI Mitigation Performance Benchmarks On Core i9 14900K Under Linux 6.9
KPMG bags £8.5M NHS gig as cheerleader for Federated Data Platform rollout
The UK's health department has awarded global consultancy KPMG an £8.5 million ($10.5 million) contract to help implement the controversial Federated Data Platform (FDP) at a local level.…
YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Now Includes Third-Party Apps
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