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Perplexity likens Amazon's legal threat to an attempt to ban access to ... wrenches?

Amazon.com has sent a cease and desist letter to Perplexity in which it insists the AI company prevent its Comet browser from making automated purchases on behalf of users.…

Norges Bank Investment Management votes against excessive award, automaker's share price skids

Norway's sovereign wealth fund has opposed Tesla CEO Elon Musk's proposed $1 trillion share award, which the carmaker's board says is necessary to retain him.…

Chocolate Factory's latest moonshot aims to put AI supercomputing cluster in sun-sychronous orbit

Google on Tuesday announced a new moonshot – launching constellations of solar-powered satellites packed to the gills with its home-grown tensor processing units (TPUs) to form orbital AI datacenters.…

DHS rule would expand biometric collection to immigrants and some citizens linked to them

If you're filing an immigration form - or helping someone who is - the Feds may soon want to look in your eyes, swab your cheek, and scan your face. The US Department of Homeland Security wants to greatly expand biometric data collection for immigration applications, covering immigrants and even some US citizens tied to those cases.…

When you opt in, your taskbar becomes an extension of the Copilot app, but with some search added in

hands on  With Microsoft cramming Copilot into every nook and cranny of its software, it’s no surprise that everyone’s favorite AI assistant is now set to take over the search box. As of the latest Windows Insider Dev and Beta builds, the "Ask Copilot anything" box is available if you know how to switch it on.…

They have no need to prove their bonafides

Recently, I was spinning up yet another terribly coded thing for fun because I believe in making my problems everyone else's problems, and realized something that had been nagging at me for a while: working with AWS is relatively painful.…

Resource Actions expected to hit half of US Infrastructure group

IBM this week began notifying several thousand employees that they will be laid off, according to sources familiar with the matter. …

Experts disagree about what the ruling means for AI training on copyrighted material

London's High Court has dismissed the major portions of Getty Images' lawsuit against generative AI firm Stability AI for training its image-generation model on copyrighted images, which some legal experts say could weaken intellectual property laws. However, others saw daylight for trademark and copyright protection in the judge's ruling.…

Curly COMrades strike again

Russia's Curly COMrades is abusing Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor in compromised Windows machines to create a hidden Alpine Linux-based virtual machine that bypasses endpoint security tools, giving the spies long-term network access to snoop and deploy malware.…

Security program fails to meet federal standards as government cuts drain resources

The infosec program run by the US' Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) "is not effective," according to a fresh audit published by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).…

Only a point up in a year, but that’s a 50% leap for Linux gamers

The latest edition of Valve's monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out, showing a rise in Steam usage on Linux. Penguin likes to play!…

PEP 810 approved following lengthy debate among developer community

Python programs are set to get faster startup times with PEP 810 "Explicit lazy imports," which allows scripts to defer loading imported libraries until they're actually needed rather than at startup.…

Trust me bro, says GitHub Copilot. And programmers just... do

Developers who "pair code" with an AI assistant stand to learn as much as they do in traditional human-human pairings, but also show a less critical attitude toward their silicon-based partner’s output, academics have found.…

Popular operating system much more sticky than Windows 7 was during its EOL

As the dust settles over the end of support for many versions of Windows 10, the operating system remains a significant presence in the Windows market.…

Check Point lifts lid on a quartet of Teams vulns that made it possible to fake the boss, forge messages, and quietly rewrite history

Microsoft Teams, one of the world's most widely used collaboration tools, contained serious, now-patched vulnerabilities that could have let attackers impersonate executives, rewrite chat history, and fake notifications or calls – all without users suspecting a thing.…

Eaton and Vertiv splash cash as HPC infrastructure and AI factories run hot

Liquid cooling tech is hot. It's only Tuesday and already infrastructure specialists have forked out more than $10 billion on companies proffering tech that promises to help ease energy bills of datacenter operators.…

France-based victims hit especially hard, while UK named most-targeted country generally

Researchers are seeing a "dramatic" increase in cybercrime involving physical violence across Europe, with at least 18 cases reported since the start of the year.…

Redmond uncovers SesameOp, a backdoor hiding its tracks by using OpenAI’s Assistants API as a command channel

Hackers have found a new use for OpenAI's Assistants API – not to write poems or code, but to secretly control malware.…

Government spending watchdog eviscerates penny wise, pound foolish approach

Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is being criticized for undermining its F-35 stealth fighter program through years of short-term budget decisions that have increased long-term costs and left the fleet understrength and undercapable.…

Plans for investing in AI and service transformation held up as treasury pulls plug, NAO finds

Police forces in England and Wales spend around 97 percent of their £2 billion ($2.6 billion) annual technology budget on maintaining legacy systems, an official report has found.…