Thursday April 3, 2025
00:14
Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burdenCrawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models.…
Wednesday April 2, 2025
22:09
Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket...Tech slugged with higher duties, base broad 10% hike, semiconductors avoid retaliatory levies for now US President Donald Trump has imposed a base ten percent tariff on all imports into America, and higher levies on goods from major producers of digital tech, such as China, South Korea, and Taiwan.…
20:17
Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW...Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027 Developers on Wednesday announced plans to bring up to 4.5 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power online by 2027 at the site of what was once Pennsylvania's largest coal plant, as part of a proposed datacenter campus running AI and high-performance computing workloads.…
18:09
Crimelords at Hunters International tell lackeys ransomware too 'risky'Bosses say theft now the name of the game with a shift in tactics, apparent branding Big-game ransomware crew Hunters International says its criminal undertaking has become 'unpromising, low-converting, and extremely risky,' and it is mulling shifting tactics amid an apparent rebrand.…
13:54
Oracle's masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeatFallout shows how what you say must be central to disaster planning Opinion Oracle is being accused of poor incident comms as it reels from two reported data security mishaps over the past fortnight, amid a reluctance to publicly acknowledge all of the events as well as allegedly deleting evidence from the web.…
11:32
Qualcomm set to move in on UK chip IP biz AlphawaveHas until month end to make an offer for semiconductor design and licensing shop Qualcomm has confirmed its interest in buying high-speed connectivity module designer Alphawave Semi, a move that could see yet another major British tech operation swallowed up by a foreign business.…
10:52
UK government told to get a grip on £23B tech spendFormer official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment The UK government does not have a clear picture of what it is spending on digital technology, and its approach to buying associated services and products drives up the cost of investment, MPs have heard.…
07:38
Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options£5M in savings? Should've gone to third-party support International optometry company Specsavers has paused the global standardization of its Oracle ERP system and moved to third-party support, saving £5 million ($6.5 million) that can be reallocated to the business.…
06:24
Speech now streaming from brains in real-timeBoosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak Some smart cookies have implemented a brain-computer interface that can synthesize speech from thought in near real-time.…
05:13
Apple belatedly patches actively exploited bugs in older OSesCupertino already squashed 'em in more recent releases - which this week get a fresh round of fixes Apple has delivered a big batch of OS updates, some of which belatedly patch older versions of its operating systems to address exploited-in-the-wild flaws the iGiant earlier fixed in more recent releases.…
Tuesday April 1, 2025
23:49
Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rivalThunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more Thunderbird, Firefox maker Mozilla's open-source email client, is aiming to reinvent itself as a more comprehensive communications platform.…
13:29
Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we'll write specifically for AI...'There needs to be a better economic as well as copyright framework', Thomson Reuters CPO tells us Interview Thomson Reuters, based in Canada, recently scored a partial summary judgment against Ross Intelligence, after a US court ruled the AI outfit's use of the newswire giant's copyrighted Westlaw content didn't qualify as fair use.…
12:46
Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their...Commerce chief threatens to pull grants so firms double down on US spending More doubt is being cast over the US CHIPS Act program with the Trump administration threatening to halt payments unless companies in line to receive funding commit to substantially expand their own investments.…
10:37
UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber billTech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first time The UK's technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government's Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging £100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to act against specific threats under consideration.…
09:45
Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great...What counts as failure in New Space? Comment Yet another rocket exploded over the weekend and – you guessed it – its CEO called the test flight 'a great success.' This raises the question: what even counts as failure anymore in the world of so-called 'New Space' – the VC-fueled and risk-friendly private rocket sector?…
08:24
Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mountLenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout The UK's third-largest supermarket has seen the expected costs of its tech divorce from former US owner Walmart rise to nearly £1 billion ($1.3 billion) after news broke that the project is now expected to run into calendar Q3 of year four, overshooting its original three-year timeline.…
01:52
Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better'AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502... Vision Intel's newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan has used his first major speech to admit the x86 goliath needs to shape up, and sketched out plans to turn things around.…
01:16
Generative AI app goes dark after child-like deepfakes found in open...Producing this stuff is bad enough, but d'ya really have to leave all of it on the web for anyone to find? Jeremiah Fowler, an Indiana Jones of insecure systems, says he found a trove of sexually explicit AI-generated images exposed to the public internet – all of which disappeared after he tipped off the team seemingly behind the highly questionable pictures.…
00:09
CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flawResurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bug Owners of Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA.…