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Cloudflare, GoDaddy team up to curb AI bot brigades

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Pair backs scraper blocking and standards to separate trusted agents from bad bots

Citing the need to adapt to an internet increasingly serving the needs of AI agents without considering the needs of site owners, Cloudflare and GoDaddy are partnering on efforts to control how AIs crawl the web and interact with web content.…

Brandon Vigliarolo

AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped

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Matt Garman sounds the alarm but plays down the SaaS-pocalypse at Human[X]

Stefan Weitz, CEO and co-founder of the Human[X] conference, welcomed attendees to the AI-focused bitshow in San Francisco with the promise that they would receive no certainty and no playbook.…

Thomas Claburn

Intel gets trapped in Elon’s reality distortion field as it joins in megafab delusions

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Space is just the next stop on the AI hype train, right after AGI

In the realm of his other unrealistic plans and potentially broken promises, Elon Musk's Terafab stands out as one of the biggest pipedreams, promising to boost semiconductor production by 50x for the benefit of orbital datacenters. But hey, this idea must have legs, because now Intel has announced it is joining the aspiring Bond villain's initiative.…

Tobias Mann

Nutanix brings its K8s to bare metal because hardware matters again

2 weeks 2 days ago
Expands compatibility since it's tough to buy the boxes you want right now

.NEXT  Nutanix exists to abstract hardware into a pool of logical resources, leaving servers and storage forgotten by all but a few datacenter hardheads. But the company's annual .NEXT conference, which kicked off in Chicago on Tuesday, put hardware at the top of the agenda.…

Simon Sharwood

Stack Overflow abandons redesign after loyalists criticize it

2 weeks 3 days ago
Fabled Q&A site for devs struggles with its future as AI takes over its original purpose

Stack Overflow, the once-popular dev community, has abandoned a planned redesign that was meant to refocus the site more on discussions than the question-and-answer format that built its reputation.…

Tim Anderson

No-Nvidia interconnect club delivers 2.0 spec before v1.0 silicon ships

2 weeks 3 days ago
UALink splits work on physical layer and protocol specs to speed things up, literally and metaphorically

The UALink Consortium, a group of tech giants working on GPU networking standards to provide an alternative to Nvidia's NVLink and NVSwitch, has released new specs, but is still months away from shipping silicon.…

Simon Sharwood

Netflix – yes, Netflix – jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor

2 weeks 3 days ago
Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene

A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies. Just imagine this. As the director of the multi-million dollar epic Car Crash III: Suddenest Impact, you've just finished filming the finale where your star, Cruz Control, drives straight into an onrushing semi.…

Thomas Claburn

OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches'

2 weeks 3 days ago
Geopolitics enter the room as Thierry Carrez shows that there's more to Kubecon than AI

Kubecon  Sovereignty was a big topic was at last week's Kubecon, and Thierry Carrez, the General Manager of the OpenInfra Foundation, shared strong feelings around it that included raising the idea that tech companies might be forced by their countries' governments to deploy "kill switches."…

Richard Speed

Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows

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Walled gardens make more sense when it's an AI-lligator infested swamp outside

Opinion  When the first M1 Apple Silicon systems sprouted at the end of 2020, we loved the tech but not the walled garden it grew in. Apple had complete control over all its platforms and could set its own rules, but only to become more Apple-y. There was a whole world outside that area where Apple Silicon would never tread, even if Cupertino could iterate fast enough to keep up. Plus, Apple's appliance sensibility limited its expansion options, especially with performance dependent on its own silicon. …

Rupert Goodwins

Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online

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Ofcom finds social media participation dropping as skepticism about digital life grows

British adults are now less active on social media, according to Ofcom, with just half of users actively posting, and fewer now believe the benefits outweigh the risks of being online.…

Dan Robinson

Yahoo<i>!</i> Japan’s owner consolidating 164 OpenStack clusters into one

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Customizations are causing pain so new cloud will stick to upstream cuts of the open source stack

LY Corporation, the Japanese web giant that dominates messaging, e-commerce and payments in many Asian countries, has revealed it is replacing a heavily-customized OpenStack cloud with a more conventional cut of the open source cloud stack – and making massive consolidations along the way.…

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